2027 Annual General Meeting and International Conference of Young Scientists
Rooted Resilience: Bridging Global and Homegrown Science for a Sustainable Future
In a rapidly changing world, the challenges we face are increasingly global, but their impacts and many of the solutions are deeply rooted in local contexts. Climate change, health inequities, food and energy security, biodiversity loss, and technological disruption demand scientific collaboration across borders, while also reminding us that knowledge does not flow in only one direction. Communities and researchers around the world are generating knowledge, technologies, and innovations shaped by their own environments, experiences, and needs.
Rooted Resilience invites us to explore how global science can meet and learn from homegrown science: locally generated research, knowledge, technologies, and innovations that are grounded in communities and contexts. How can different knowledge systems interact more equitably? How can scientific advances be adapted, transformed, or co-created to address local realities? And how can locally rooted solutions and perspectives, in turn, contribute to addressing challenges beyond their place of origin?
At the 2027 GYA Annual General Meeting, we will bring together young scientists from diverse disciplines, regions, and knowledge traditions to explore these intersections. Through dialogue, collaboration, and exchange, we seek to envision a future in which science is both globally connected and locally grounded, where resilience is built not by applying one universal solution, but by valuing diverse perspectives and co-creating knowledge that can sustain people, communities, and our planet.
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