Official charity status Young Academy of Europe

The Board of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) met at the ​Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) ​of Munich​ to officially register the YAE as a charity in Germany. Registration as a charity establishes the official status of the YAE and enables it to start raising funds and receive donations, and to grow further as a community and a positive force for influencing scientific policy throughout Europe. The charity status also allows the YAE to register at the EU and to participate fully in future grants.

“The Young Academy Europe is delighted that it can now call the LMU Munich as its official home and wants to express its gratitude for making this possible”, says Mangala Srinivas, the current chair of the YAE, and member of the theme Nanomedicine. “It is also welcome that space, and some funding, can be available for all members to organise events relevant to the YAE at the LMU.”

The YAE was set up in 2012 as a bottom-up, pan-European initiative of a dynamic and innovative group of recognized European early career scientists and scholars with outspoken views about science and science policy.

  

Photos: YAE board members at Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen coming together to see the registering of the charity. Members of the Advisory Committee, and the original founding members of the YAE, also attended.