Permanent Working Groups

Permanent Working Groups are concerned with prolonged issues of policy and advice in respect of science. Their services may vary from advising the General Assembly to taking a stance or issuing a declaration to producing a memorandum or brochure with the General Assembly's endorsement, or even a monograph or collected papers published by the Permanent Working Group under the auspices of ALLEA.

Permanent Working Groups are instituted by the General Assembly when so proposed by the Steering Committee. The chair and members of a Permanent Working Group are member Academicians of a Member Academy, nominated and approved by the Steering Committee.

Current Permanent Working Groups are: 

•  Intellectual Property Rights
  

•  Science and Ethics