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The members of the Swiss Young Academy elected their new Executive Board for 2025/26. Nawal Kinany was appointed as the new speaker, Sabrina Heike Kessler will serve as the vice-speaker. In their one-year term of office, they intend to further strengthen the Swiss Young Academy as a vibrant platform that advocates for and amplifies the perspectives of early and mid-career researchers throughout Switzerland.

At the meeting of the Young Academies of Europe in Bern, Yves Flückiger, President of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, and Lucas Müller, former speaker of the Swiss Young Academy, talk about science diplomacy, uncertain career paths and the question of how the scientific system can be networked across Europe and made fit for the future.

Cooperation between the scientific, political, and diplomatic communities is decisive to overcoming global challenges. How to involve young academics in the political and diplomatic discourse through “science diplomacy” was the issue at this year's meeting of the European Network of National Young Academies (ENYA) in Bern, organised by the Swiss Young Academy.

Five years after it was established, the Swiss Young Academy has published its first public Annual Report.