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YEAR Annual Report for 2024 Published

In 2024, YEAR achieved significant milestones, including welcoming the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) as the eighth member RTO. As expected, YEAR continued to host diverse events to support researchers’ careers, such as training sessions in Leiden, Helsinki, and Vienna, and various online webinars. YEAR also participated in the EARTO Annual Conference, gaining visibility and initiating discussions with potential new members. Looking ahead to 2025, YEAR plans to continue hosting high-quality events and expanding its network.

The events of 2024 have been captured in our annual report, to be downloaded below.

YEAR Annual Report for 2023 Published

In 2023, YEAR successfully hosted nine high-quality events, including an annual conference in Cork, Ireland, and a face-to-face training in Brussels, Belgium. The organisation was also more active in consulting, with its presence at three events, including the 6th Industrial Forum Plenary Meeting organised by the European Commission. For 2024, YEAR aims to continue focusing on increasing its impact on member institutes as well as the community of young researchers in Europe.

The events of 2023 have been captured in our annual report, to be downloaded below.

YEAR Annual Report 2022 Published

With the end of the COVID crisis, the YEAR network could finally perform its main goal again: bringing early-career researchers together. For the first time in three years, we were able to organise our conference in September. The possibility of organising face-to-face events again, in combination with the webinar and online training programme that we developed in the previous COVID years, resulted in our most diverse set of events since the foundation of our network.

We captured the events of 2022 in our annual report, to be downloaded below.