Category: News

Many areas of young people’s lives benefit from having high aspirations;  education, employability, physical and mental health, citizenship and safer and stronger communities.   What advice made you aim high?  What advice would you give to raise a young person’s aspirations?  Between the 5th of…

This summer new YAS members, Dr. Mhairi Towler Director of Vivomotion (www.vivomotion.co.uk), a scientific animation company and Dr. Adam Stokes, an interdisciplinary scientist and engineer, and Director of The University of Edinburgh FabLab, got chatting about potential collaborations at the induction ceremony at the RSE…

Events take place amid worries for future of computer science in Scotland’s schools and universities Lego robots from across Scotland are limbering up to face an epic series of daunting and exhilarating challenges. For weeks, teams of innovative school children, aged 9 – 16, have…

Representatives of almost all European national Young Academies met in Berlin on 30th/31st October, to set up a frame for future exchange and cooperation. At the German Young Academy’s invitation, members and heads of office of the Academies of Belgium (Flanders), Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland,…

 As Scotland begins the process of forging a new society in the wake of the Independence Referendum, a group of researchers, academics and creative practitioners from across the country have come together to make the case that greater value should be put on the arts…

  YAS member Verena Rieser pitching at the event   For the evening of the 2nd October, over 90 entrepreneurs from across Scotland gathered for the event ‘Connecting Scotland’s Entrepreneurial Network’ at the Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh. The event brought together the Royal Society of…

The Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland has sought to inform the referendum debate (see our report on a series of lectures here), but has remained strictly impartial throughout. We now publicly commit to throw our weight behind the democratic decision of the…

Last week was busy but exciting here at the Young Academy of Scotland. We have now officially increased our numbers to 156 members by welcoming our talented and diverse third cohort of members to the academy. You can read more about them by looking at…

Brain training on Trial  Spent your hard-earned cash on games that promise to protect your brain? Still forgetting why you went into that room? Then come and put brain training on trial. Be our prosecution, defence and jury as we examine the claims that brain…