Between 12-15 June, 2024, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) was held in Katowice, Poland. With 3500 participants, 100 thematic sessions led by over 400 speakers, this biannual event is one of the largest science policy related conferences not only in Europe, but all over the world.
YAE alumnus and former Vice-Chair, Toma Susi, was invited as keynote speaker with a talk on Open Science entitled The importance of rewarding good research practices.
The YAE proposed two panels for the event, and was invited as panellist to a third one. The first session was co-organized with the Researcher Mental Health COST Action and was entitled “Personal and systemic responsibility for developing resilience in research workplaces”, and featured Katalin Solymosi (YAE Chair) and Gábor Kismihók (FYAE) as speakers. The second panel about “The 2022 Manifesto for Early Career Researchers and its impact” was co-proposed with Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) and involved Katalin Solymosi as panellist. In addition, Katalin Solymosi was also invited to contribute to a panel entitled ”Is there room and necessity today in Europe for an organisation that would renovate what EuroScience did in the past: a constructive debate”. This session was very important, as EuroScience, the organisation behind ESOF, recently filed for bankruptcy, thus its future, as well as the future of ESOF is now uncertain.
For more details about the ESOF2024 programme and the book of abstracts see here.