Young Academy of Scotland

The Young Academy of Scotland is a Scottish organization of young people from the sciences humanities, professions, arts, business and civil society.

[2] The members (equal numbers of women and men in their 20s to 40s) aim to provide ideas and direction for challenges facing Scotland.

[3] Current members include Edinburgh University Rector Deborah Kayembe and former Rector Peter McColl.

The Young Academy of Scotland initiatives have ranged from policy advice on Brexit,[4][5] to promoting diversity multiculturalism in Scotland,[6][7] enhancing inclusion in the workforce,[8][9] undertaking outreach in local schools to engage young people in science and developing educational resources such as YouTube videos to improve numerical literacy.

[10] In 2019, the Academy started the Mosul Bookbridge Project to help the University of Mosul in Iraq rebuild its library, which was destroyed during the ISIS insurgency in 2014.