GYA Membership Application

Dear applicant, thank you very much for your interest in becoming part of our community. The Global Young Academy (GYA) is a non-for-profit, member-led organisation. The GYA provides a platform for socially engaged, outstanding researchers to collaborate towards advancing science and society. GYA members are driven by their passion to make a positive, lasting impact in their communities and the planet. Selected members do not receive any monetary prize or a personal budget; at the same time, there are no fees involved in joining the GYA.

The assessment of your application will cover three major aspects:

1. Scientific excellence
2. Demonstrated commitment to society
3. Interests and perspectives on your engagement in the GYA

Before the assessment of those three major aspects, we will first lead you through a pre-screening for eligibility to become a member and then a survey to gather the required personal data. We suggest that you prepare for the assessment by pre-preparing your answers in advance. Find the assessment questions here: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The application should be completed personally by the applicant in English. Applications written in other languages will be discarded. Please read the instructions in this form carefully. An asterisk (*) indicates a required field. If you would like to use an abbreviation in your essays, please write out the full term first, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses immediately after. For instance: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) or University of Pretoria (UP). After the first instance, you can use the abbreviation on its own throughout the rest of the application. You can make an exception for the Global Young Academy, which you can abbreviate as GYA already at its first mention.

Formatting note: Please be sure to use proper quotation marks within the fields of this form. Using two apostrophes to create a quotation mark will render your application impossible to read by our system. It causes an error which will not allow you to save your application’s progress.

Shortlisted candidates may undergo a second evaluation step.

The application must be submitted by 15 September 2026 at 18:00 PM UTC.