非洲青年科学家

非洲青年科学家组织(YoSA)是一个注册慈善机构，通过以下方式支持非洲科学青年学生:-颁发奖学金参加一年一度的伦敦国际青年科学论坛(LIYSF)。-在非洲建立一个学生网络，以促进和鼓励科学事业。这是必要的，因为:-广泛的分析表明，非洲需要科学，而不仅仅是援助，以应对其面临的社会经济和公共卫生挑战。非洲需要年轻的非洲科学家来领导重塑非洲大陆、改善和拯救非洲人的生活。YoSA提供什么:YoSA的成立是为了支持年轻的非洲理科学生，他们通常没有……阅读更多非洲青年科学家组织(YoSA)是一个注册慈善机构，通过以下方式支持非洲科学青年学生:-颁发奖学金参加一年一度的伦敦国际青年科学论坛(LIYSF)。-在非洲建立一个学生网络，以促进和鼓励科学事业。这是必要的，因为:-广泛的分析表明，非洲需要科学，而不仅仅是援助，以应对其面临的社会经济和公共卫生挑战。非洲需要年轻的非洲科学家来领导重塑非洲大陆、改善和拯救非洲人的生活。YoSA提供什么:YoSA的成立是为了支持非洲年轻的理科学生，这些学生通常无法获得与世界其他地区相同的机会。YoSA的一个核心组成部分是赞助非洲科学学生参加伦敦国际青年科学论坛(LIYSF)的奖学金计划。在这个国际论坛上有非洲学生的适当代表是非常重要的，在YoSA成立之前，撒哈拉以南非洲国家的学生没有代表;非洲大陆约占世界青年人口的20%。YoSA与非洲的顶尖科学家和科学项目合作，以确定非洲最优秀的年轻科学人才。然后，这些学生被赞助参加伦敦国际青年科学论坛——这是一个每年举办的活动，吸引了来自70多个国家的500多名世界上最优秀的理科生，其中许多人赢得了国家科学竞赛——并且有机会在为期两周的讲座、辩论和访问研究机构的项目中与世界领先的科学家接触。 At LIYSF, YoSA students have the opportunity to share their perspectives and create lasting relationships with an audience of other young scientists from all over the world. They also raise the profile of African science by introducing other students to the challenges and opportunities for science in Africa. YoSA operates through a network of facilitators and has established links with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/), The Wellcome Trust (https://wellcome.ac.uk/), The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) (http://aesa.ac.ke/), Projekt Inspire (http://projektinspire.co.tz/) and the Next Einstein Forum (https://nef.org/). Through the support of its network of facilitators YoSA sponsors open and fair selection processes to identify talented young African scientists, for whom other financial support would not be available, and who are committed to pursuing science careers in Africa. The facilitators also support scholarship students locally with their visa and passport requirements as they have typically never travelled outside their own country before. Our ambition is to support young African scientists, not just in attending LIYSF, but also in creating a network that can link into other African science initiatives such as Next Einstein Forum (https://nef.org/) and Africa Research Excellence Fund (http://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/) as they progress in their education and careers. We have directly facilitated introductions for our students with these and other leading science organisations in Africa and we actively monitor and encourage the progress of their scientific development through these connections. Each of our scholarship students has returned to Africa with a determination to succeed in science. They have been very proactive in communicating their experiences at LIYSF within their schools and local communities and inspire others pursue careers in science. They are each required to write a report of their experiences as part of the scholarship we provide and this forms the basis of these presentations. Our students are fantastic ambassadors for science in Africa and it's no exaggeration to say that YoSA and LIYSF have had a life changing effect on them and their ambitions for their future careers as African scientists. What is LIYSF: The London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) is a two week residential event held at Imperial College London, with lectures and demonstrations from leading scientists, visits to industrial sites, research centres, scientific institutions and organisations, including world class laboratories and universities. LIYSF attracts over 500 of the world's leading young scientists, aged 16-21 years, from more than 70 countries. This year was the 60th LIYSF and further details can be found at https://www.liysf.org.uk/.