European Young Academy

In a rapidly changing research landscape, with forms of doing research and new fields and challenges emerging and with the European Research and Higher Education Area taking shape, the project “European Young Academy” (EYA) aims at giving a voice for the next generation of scientific leaders in Europe.
Traditionally, national academies have been promoters of top quality research sources of independent scientific advice and provided a platform for interdisciplinary exchange. The next generation of scientific leaders must equally be able to contribute to the Europe-wide discussion, across language and disciplinary boundaries, of the future environment and progress of research.
Some countries have established National Young Academies, others are thinking about similar models (see below).

The vision for a EYA includes the following core elements:
A virtual and independent  body which would give a select group of the very best early career researchers in Europe the opportunity to:
1. contribute critically and constructively to the process of building the European Research and Higher Education areas;
2. promote academic excellence, independence and freedom;
3. contribute to science policy debates;
4. increase the visibility of European research through public outreach;
5. enhance the potential of scientific collaboration across disciplinary boundaries,
making use of new forms and developing of communication to foster the dialogue between science and society in a European and global perspective.

Meetings
2010 March
Towards a European Young Academy “Grand Challenges” brainstorming workshop, Turkish Academy of Sciences, Antalya
programme
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2010 February
An ALLEA Member Academies’ consultative meeting. Towards Young Academies across Europe - sharing experiences and building capacities, Instituto de España, Madrid
 programme
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2009 June
ESF/ALLEA Joint Brainstorming Workshop 2009. “From Learned Societies to Knowledge-Based Society: Towards a European Young Academy?”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
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National Young Academies
q Austria: Junge Kurie
q Denmark: Det Unge Akademi
q Germany: Die Junge Akademie
q Netherlands: De Jonge Akademie
q Scotland: RSE Young Academy of Scotland
q Sweden: Sveriges unga akademi
q Turkey: GEBIP Programme

Examples of young scientists meetings supported by Member Academies
q World Economic Forum: Annual Meeting of New Champions
q Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
q Frontiers of Science Meetings
q ESF Humanities Spring