YoungEAAP is a group of young scientists organized under the EAAP umbrella. It aims to create a platform where scientists during their early career get the opportunity to meet and share their experiences, expectations and aspirations. This is done through activities at the Annual EAAP Meetings and social media. The large constituency and diversity of the EAAP member countries, commissions and delegates create a very important platform to stay up-to-date, close the gap between our training and the future employer expectations, while fine-tuning our skills and providing young scientists applied and industry-relevant research ideas.
Committee Members at a glace
- Ines Adriaens (President)
- Jana Obsteter (Vice President)
- Giulia Gislon (Secretary)
YoungEAAP promotes Young and Early Career Scientists to:
- Stay up-to-date (i.e. EAAP activities, social media)
- Close the gap between our training and the future employer expectations
- Fine-tune our skills through EAAP meetings, expand the special young scientists’ sessions, and/or start online webinars/trainings with industry and academic leaders
- Meet to network and share our graduate school or early employment experiences
- Develop research ideas, projects and proposals
Who can be a Member of Young EAAP?
All individual members of EAAP can join the YoungEAAP if they meet one of the following criteria:
Researchers under 38 years of age OR within 10 years after PhD-graduation
Just request your membership form (info@eaap-youngclub.org) and become member of this network!!!
Young EAAP session
Ines Adriaens, Giulia Gislon, Franziska Koch, Jana Obsteter
The Young EAAP session brings impactful topics and speakers to the early career people at EAAP. This year’s session consists of 3 parts. In the first part, we handle how we can prepare ourselves and our CV for life after PhD. We will discuss with experienced people in a variety of roles what skills they needed and missed in their current careers.
The second part of the session, we will discuss impact in all its facets. We will deal with what types of impact there are (e.g. on the sector/farmer, on people, on an academic audience, etc.), and how we can fit it into our work. Topics that will pass by are e.g. science communication, industry collaborations, etc. As many funding agencies also require to specify “impact” in a research proposal, we will discuss how we can address this during funding acquisition.
In the final part of the session, we organize a series of workshops around a variety of topic, including artificial intelligence, large language models, animal welfare, agile working in science, reproducible science and code, talking about failure, how to sell sustainable animal production, leadership and work/life balance. In each, we will interactively and in small groups work around these topics together with other young scientists.
Everyone is welcome to join and participate.