The 13th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) was held between 26-27 August 2024, in Strasbourg. The detailed programme of the event is available here. The event was hosted by Selection Committee Chair, Artur Ciesielski at I.S.I.S.
Participants of the 2024 AGM of YAE in Strasbourg
On the first day of the event, Katalin Solymosi as YAE Chair summarized YAE’s activities since the previous AGM, whilst Linn Leppert as YAE Treasurer provided the financial report for the previous year. These were followed by a talk given by the president of Academia Europaea, Prof. Marja Makarow who presented the activities and the future strategy of the organization. Then Katalin Solymosi welcomed the new YAE members elected since the last AGM and handed them over the membership certificates prepared by Philippa Warren (Membership Chair).
After a coffee break, Marc Yeste (Secretary) moderated the elections: a new Chair (only candidate, Scott Bremer), a new Vice-Chair (only candidate, Anna Kuppuswamy) and 6 newly elected Board members (out of 12 candidates) had to be elected. The composition of the new Board is available here. The AGM also voted on changes in the bylaws proposed by the Board. The votes were followed by a section dedicated to Art&Science with Eamon O’Kane as speaker, and then the voting results were announced.
On the second day of the AGM, participants first listened to research talks by selected new members. A discussion in two sessions followed about YAE’s communication strategy and science-policy related work, moderated by Katalin Solymosi.
In the afternoon of the second day, Artur Ciesielski led and moderated an emphatetic leadership workshop for the participants.