Events: ALLEA

The General Assembly annually convenes academies of sciences and humanities from 40 countries across the Council of Europe region. General Assemblies are hosted by ALLEA Member Academies and the programme typically consists of the internal business meeting of academy delegates, and a scientific symposium open to the public. The symposium explores pressing topics from the fields of science, society and policy, and provides a platform for international, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral debate. The business meeting addresses governance, strategy and policy matters and is...

The next ALLEA General Assembly will celebrate the organisation's 30th anniversary and will take place in Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2024. The central part of the event, a public symposium themed ‘European Research Collaboration in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape: How Open Can We Be?’, will take place on 22 May from 18:30 – 20:30 CEST at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, followed by a festive reception. The event is co-hosted by the German National Academy of Sciences –...

Young Academies from all over Europe will meet in Berlin, Germany, on 21-23 May 2024. The meeting will be co-organised by the German Young Academy – Die Junge Akademie and the Global Young Academy, and will continue discussions from the 2023 meeting, including discussing best practices and areas of joint interest. The GYA will be represented by YASAS delegate and member of the 2023/24 EC Markus Prutsch (European Parliament, Austria) and YASAS Observer and co-lead of the UN SDG Incubator...

Register here. Registration now open: ALLEA - GYA – STM joint webinar on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Scholarly Peer Review What is it? - The second joint event by the GYA with ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, and STM Publishers is scheduled for Thursday, 17 November 2022, from 11.30-13:30 UTC. The online webinar on ‘IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility) in scholarly peer-review’ will examine -and plan for- ways to expand  Inclusion, Diversity,...

The next ALLEA General Assembly will take place in Brussels on 11-12 May 2022. The Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts will host the two-day event at the Academy Palace, in the heart of the Belgian capital. The meeting will include a joint meeting with the young academies from Europe, for the first time ever bringing together the young academies from Europe with the continent’s...

Young Academies from all over Europe will meet in Brussels, Belgium, on 10-12 May 2022. The meeting, organised by the Belgian Young Academy, will continue discussions from last year’s meeting including discussing best practices and areas of joint interest. The GYA will be represented by YASAS delegate and former EC member Maral Dadvar (Stuttgart Media University, Germany), as well as GYA Senior Project Officer Anna-Maria Gramatté, and a number of GYA members will participate wearing their respective national young academy...

At this ALLEA 25th anniversary conference, the GYA is organizing a panel session on 9 May. The session will discuss conclusions from the GYA's International Conference of Young Scientists 'Re-Enlightenment? Truth, Reason and Science in a Global World'. At a time of perceived erosion of trust in science, GYA panelists will discuss the values of the Enlightenment in today’s society, in digital transformation, and in a so-called post-truth world. Panelists will analyse the potential for a (Re-)Enlightenment from three different...

ALLEA will hold its 19th General Assembly at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in Sofia on 16-18 May 2018. The event comprises a scientific symposium on “Science in Times of Challenged Trust and Expertise”, as well as the science-policy symposium co-organised by the European academies’ project SAPEA “Shaping European Science Advice: Insights and Experiences. As in previous years, the event is held in conjunction with ALLEA’s annual business meeting (closed), which brings together representatives from the 59 ALLEA Member Academies. On 16...