A second YAE podcast featuring the 2023 André Mischke YAE Prize for Science and Policy awardee, Professor Renaud Jolivet has been published on YAE’s YouTube channel. The podcast interview is a longer version of the written interview available here.
In 2023, at the Annual General Meeting of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and the joint YAE and Academia Europaea Building Bridges Conference in Munich, YAE awarded the André Mischke YAE Prize for Science and Policy to Professor Renaud Jolivet from Maastricht University. The award ceremony and his lecture can be viewed here (starting at 03:17:04), as well as on our homepage. Professor Jolivet later summarized his talk at the Building Bridges Conference 2023 in Munich in a paper entitled “Lessons from a First Decade in European Science Policy”, published in European Review and freely available at the following link. On this occasion, Katalin Solymosi, the Chair of the YAE interviewed the awardee about his scientific and science policy related activities, goals, and visions.
The Young Academy of Europe Prize is awarded annually to an early to mid-career professional in recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions to key areas of the YAE. In 2019, the YAE Prize was named “André Mischke YAE Prize for Science and Policy” in honour of the late YAE Founding Chair, André Mischke. The prize is given to support and promote: science, evidence-based policy making, science communication, and future generation scientists and scholars in Europe.
Currently, the search committee is looking for nominations for the 2024 award. Nominations should be sent to yae-prize@yacadeuro.org by the 15th of March 2024 at the latest, and should include a short CV (max. 2 pages) accompanied by a short statement (max. 1 page) describing key activities and providing evidence of relevant accomplishments for which the candidate is nominated for. (Please note that the original nomination deadline of 29th February has been extended!) See more information here.
Based on their contributions to European policy and science, the recipient of the award is expected to give a talk at the AE/YAE Annual Conference and to contribute a paper to the issue of European Review published on the same occasion.
The Young Academy of Europe Prize is awarded annually to an early to mid-career professional in recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions to key areas of the YAE. In 2019, the YAE Prize was named “André Mischke YAE Prize for Science and Policy” in honour of the late YAE Founding Chair, André Mischke. The prize is given to support and promote: science, evidence-based policy making, science communication, and future generation scientists and scholars in Europe.
Currently, the search committee is looking for nominations for the 2023 award. Nominations should be sent to yae-prize@yacadeuro.org by the 22nd of May 2023 at the latest, and should include a short CV (max. 2 pages) accompanied by a short statement (max. 1 page) describing key activities and providing evidence of relevant accomplishments for which the candidate is nominated for. See more information here.
Recipients of the award are expected to contribute a paper to the issue of European Review published on occasion of the AE/YAE Annual Conference, based on their contributions to European policy and science.
We are delighted to announce that the André Mischke YAE Prize 2022 for Science and Policy was awarded to Dr. Gergely Toldi. The full press release can be found here.
Dr. Toldi is a senior lecturer at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, working in neonatal medicine and innovative research in immunology and the field of flow cytometry. He is also co-chair of the ‘Widening European participation’ thematic mission of the Academia Europaea Budapest Knowledge Hub. For his successes in immunology, he received numerous awards, prizes, fellowships, and grants including the International Medis Award (Paediatrics) 2016. Dr. Toldi has been involved in various organizations and activities, e.g. as Board Member of the German Society for Cytometry, Member of Global Young Academy, Executive Committee Member of the Hungarian Young Academy, and Member of the COVID19 Advisory Group of the InterAcademy Partnership. Within the ‘Widening European participation’ mission of AE, he plays an important role in increasing the competitiveness of early career researchers (ECRs) from EU13 countries and improving their representation on the European level. He is also a founding delegate of the Young Academies Science Advice Structure (YASAS), a new initiative to create a formal platform of European young academies for their involvement in European science advice through SAPEA. Through his clinical role, Toldi developed evidence-based regional and international guidelines and led quality improvement projects shaping current clinical practice in several aspects of neonatal intensive care. He has been active in public dissemination of essential information related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the benefits of immunisation, and he was involved in science communication during the World Science Forum (WSF) organised in Budapest in 2019. Dr. Toldi helped set up both the Hungarian Young Academy (2019) and the United Kingdom Young Academy (2022), and coordinated large-scale surveys of early-career researchers in Hungary and UK. These surveys helped implement several changes to improve ECRs’ opportunities and guide related science policy to date.
By awarding him the YAE Prize, the YAE recognises internationally leading academic research, management, and policy making. The YAE will award the sixth annual YAE Prize, honouring our Founding Chair André Mischke, at the joint annual AE /YAE meeting in Barcelona (October 2022).
Nominations are now open for the 2022 edition of the YAE Prize! More information about the Prize, including previous Prize recipients and requirements, can be found here. Note that you do not need to be a YAE member to nominate.
A detailed document describing the nomination procedure for the 2022 edition can be found here: André Mischke YAE Prize 2022.
More information about the Prize, including previous Prize recipients and requirements, can be found here. Note that you do not need to be a YAE member to nominate.
A detailed document describing the nomination procedure for the 2021 edition can be found here: Andre Mischke YAE Prize 2021.
We are delighted to announce that the André Mischke YAE Prize 2020 for Science and Policy was awarded to Dr Grant Hill-Cawthorne.
Dr. Hill-Cawthorne
is a medical microbiologist and Principal Science adviser to the UK Parliament.
He completed medicine and medical training at the University of Cambridge, UK.
He then moved to Saudi Arabia, to set up a laboratory specialising in pathogen
genomics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he
completed his PhD on the use of genomics for public health microbiology. In
2011–2012, Dr. Hill-Cawthorne was appointed to the highly competitive NHS
Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow scheme, and was Clinical adviser to the
Deputy Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
(NICE), having responsibility for health and social care. From 2013–2018, Dr.
Hill-Cawthorne was Senior Lecturer in Communicable Diseases Epidemiology at the
School of Public Health of the University of Sydney, where he is currently
adjunct Associate Professor in Global Health. For his successes in research,
Dr. Hill-Cawthorne has received numerous fellowships and grants, amounting to
over $9 million of research funding gained, and has produced influential
policy-related publications in leading journals.
Furthermore, since
May 2018, Dr. Hill-Cawthorne is Head of the Parliamentary Office of Science and
Technology (POST), the science advice unit within the UK Parliament that
bridges research and policy. Devoted to engage younger scholars in science
policy, he developed a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme to embed
academics in parliamentary departments for discrete research projects designed
by Parliament. For 2020, Dr. Hill-Cawthorne is the President of the European
Parliamentary Technology Assessment network (EPTA), the international
organisation for legislative science advice units. Dr. Hill-Cawthorne has been
involved in various scientific organisations and bodies active in the area of
science and policy, both in the UK (POST, NICE) and abroad, as he is currently
the President of the EPTA network. Finally, Dr. Hill-Cawthorne is intensively
active on scientific dissemination. For example, he acted as the University of
Sydney’s principal media communicator during the Ebola-virus and Zika-virus
global health crises, writing a number of media articles himself, as well as
being interviewed countless times on TV and radio, and contributing to the print
media.
By awarding the André Mischke YAE Prize for Science and Policy, we recognise his internationally leading roles in academic research, management, and policy making. Dr. Hill-Cawthorne will give the André Mischke YAE Prize lecture at the next YAE meeting (which will be held online in October 2020), and will collect the award at the next joint annual AE/YAE meeting in Barcelona 2021.
Dr Gabi Lombardo is awarded the YAE Medal 2018 by YAE Chair Dr Mangala Srivinas and former YAE Chair Marcel Swart
We are pleased to announce that the second edition of the Annual YAE Prize has been awarded to Dr. Gabi Lombardo. This Prize will be awarded during the YAE Meeting in Barcelona next November. Dr Lombardo is an expert in global research funding, research and education policies, and international higher education. She has high-level experience in the interface of strategy, policy, research and business. Her field of work accompanies strengthening connections across the university and beyond, within a complex field of external, and international stakeholders. She holds an extensive record in the design and implementation of highly innovative projects, including public and private business investing in HE in the US, China and Europe. She has also a record of establishing multilateral institutional collaborations and university representative offices abroad. Dr Lombardo holds a senior level experience in strategic planning and ‘foresight’ planning in elite higher education institutions, international research funders and associations. She is a constant promoter of the value of the Social Sciences and Humanities from her position as the Director of The European Alliance for SSH, which is the largest science policy organization for SSH in Europe, and has a specific approach to give voice in the science policy debate to an international scientific community.
7th March 2018. For further information please contact info@yacadeuro.org
Many of you joined us in Budapest for our Annual General Meeting and joint meeting with the Academia Europaea. Those who were there, will agree that is was a wonderful occasion held in a beautiful backdrop of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. We had a very productive first day where we were joined by hfp consulting, who lead an informative workshop on time management. We all then went on to enjoy the Launch Party for the YAE charity, were new and old members got to network and form new friendships. Due to the new charity status of the YAE we spent some time discussing the Bylaws and also heard some interesting presentations from several of the National Young Academies, which we hope will join us in helping to grow the YAE in numbers and status.
Finally we had the important business of electing our new board members in which there were 7 vacant positions. Members of the Board who stepped down were: Sven Bestmann, Nicole Grobert, and Alexander Fidora. Their contribution and countless efforts on behalf of the YAE were enormous and we owe them a great debt of thanks.
Following the outcome of the election, the composition of the new Board for 2017/2018 is as follows:
Marcel Swart
Chair
Mangala Srinivas
Vice-Chair
Sebastian Leidel
Treasurer
Monica Brinzei
Secretary
Yan Lavallee
Selection Committee Chair
Lydia Schumacher
Selection Committee Vice-Chair
Sylvestre Bonnet
Selection Committee Vice-Chair
Toma Susi
Membership Chair
Karin Sigloch
Membership Vice-Chair
Manuel Fernández-Götz
Membership Vice-Chair
Kate Black
Communications Chair
Raúl Arenal
Communications Vice-Chair
Following our own AGM, there was the Joint AE/ALLEA/YAE meeting, where the YAE was well represented during the scientific sessions, both by speakers and session leaders. The highlight of the Joint Meeting however was the very first YAE Annual Prize, which was awarded to Rianne Letschert, Rector of Univ. Maastricht, you can read more about Rianne and the prize here.
We have already started planning the next annual AGM meeting, which will most likely take place in Barcelona in the third week of November. We hope many of you will be able to join us then.
