 Everyone has done amazing work so we hope that today we can reflect on some of those with you all. So we have put together some highlights and I would like to start with that we had again in the second round of the program we had a very very international group we had really a global representation as you can see on this world map and we had 117 women and 126 men really from the entire globe but also with all kinds of different backgrounds so people working in plant biology but also people working in medicine. So I would like to reflect a bit on individual advocacy and outreach. So a lot of you have done not only worked with ambassadors but also you have done individual efforts to advocate good practices in science so people have given interviews or wrote opinion articles for example someone did that in a new scientist we've been I think very active all of you on Twitter to show what you thought of the program but also what you have been doing organizing local events so I think that's great but also there was a lot of collaboration because we have this global community people speaking different languages and when Sarah from the intersectionality initiative asked if people were willing to translate just one page A4 documents but it was five documents I think within an hour she had like responses from different people and now these guidelines are translated in four different languages four or five different languages which I think is really great and I'm happy to see that the ELAF community ambassadors really is a community and in that sense works together with each other so that's really great and yeah then we've also compared to the first round of the program we really wanted to make this program for you also an opportunity to share and learn skills so I knew this year was that we had these training sessions for you so like the reproducibility for everyone workshops holding a preprint journal club management self-management in science how to make a personal website a science writing skills survey design because a lot of you wanted to to make a survey so we want to give you really clear guidelines what that entails and what's necessary some of you decided to pursue some of you said okay well maybe then then another media is better for us advocacy in general boosting visibility of your outputs of course recently by Rowena and then very good introduction to GitHub from Naomi and of course all the way in the beginning you may not even remember anymore more than a year ago how to use this course and we had yeah many more sessions and I would like to thank everyone who gave these sessions and put the effort into to prepare these presentations for you and engaging with you during these sessions and yeah I would like to also thank the elive staff here Naomi but also Korau is with us this morning and Miranda for facilitating these because not all of us were ecac members so they really had to reach out to people within elive to or with outside elive even to ask if they would be willing to give a training session for us and also which you may not directly see as a training session but I do believe it's training and skills exchange are the excellent ECR Wednesday webinars in which this year also more ambassadors were involved and are very very excellently led and organized by by Vino working together with these ambassadors but also outside the ambassador program of course so thank you all for that at the beginning of the program we came together to start some initiatives and work as a group and communicate and advocate for better behavior in science we have so many initiatives as you can see which cover most of the part that we are engaging to our day-to-day life in science and I'm not going to review most of the names but that's wonderful to see these all of these initiatives some of them were established from two years ago but as you can see many of them were new initiatives that couldn't be happened without you yeah thank you Lota and I also also wanted to thank all the initiative leads like everyone who had joined different initiators and also all the initiative leads but step into support the initiatives and you know and also contributed for the initiatives so I might not be able to spend the next few minutes reading all of their names but thank you very much for your inputs and feedback and through all of these projects training and sharing you have shared a very diverse outputs that range from something like you know learning to collaborate on Google Doc or to articulating your roles in managing and contributing and producing blogs websites and so on so you know but we know that these outputs are very which boosts up the visibility of ambassadors program and we want to especially thank everyone who had presented their initiatives and diverse outputs including you know it might be even writing a blog or you know joining a webinar or you know doing a Twitter campaign and so on and I also wanted to take this moment to say a special thanks to the ECR live blog editors which is a great team that is working behind bringing all your ideas into places where it provides a platform where your voices are heard and I also wanted to thank good to an oise of supporters and Eli marketing team for supporting the external events so also you've been engaging others online on Twitter and other social medias and including the amazing reach of the environmental sustainability the lab waste days for example and the many ambassadors who go out for the preprint about improving conferences and raising the awareness about inequalities bullying in academia and all the other issues you advocate about and you've also turned up as yourself with compassion for each other and open minds to learn and support each other that's very beautiful to see and we feel very humble by you all for your attitude and who have provided us the training and support initiatives and it be well ambassadors we really thank you all for for your work doing science is more is a lot more than just having your papers published they have many other things and you know so for example some of these values came up earlier you know how how collaborating but also you know enjoying others other people's science how you know advancing the scientific enterprise as a whole so these are all very important aspects that you know our challenges for us but that also give us give us joy and appreciation of science and assessment of science and research has to be much more than just what is that you know one or two or three these these these published papers and so it really has to be contributions in many different ways and what I find really fantastic and and impressive that you are all taking you know time out of your calendar which I'm sure is just as crammed as anybody else's so I know you all have full-time jobs and pressures and during these turbulent times probably many more concerns than usual but you are donating some of this precious time to these important causes and to help others where you may not have been helped personally or to provide resources that will be a roadmap for other people to bring science closer to your vision and what you think it could be and all of you have sort of self-selected to be part of this by your common purpose and also by your sort of creative and individual important vision so you know again thank you for being what what I wish for and what I think more of science should be so and you know watched again with interest today and learned about how effective your collective actions have been and I just want to remind you how much impact that even modeling responsible scientific behaviors can have individually so each of you by making your values known you know making decisions in your scientific lives and in your interactions with other scientists are moving the needle and this type of grassroots movement I think has the power to do so much more than you know top-down efforts you know by a handful of famous scientists so you know just talking to a few people around you about how to make things better will make infinite ripples and spread faster and further and I think it normalizes better values and behaviors and so no matter what your favorite initiatives are you know every day living your desired principles and science by existing in the version of the world that you would like to see materialized you are doing the really important work so it's you know there's always more to be done and I think that generational change has you know you know it's one of the most powerful tools that we have for you know mass movement towards improving research culture and publishing which is why I think it's so important to reach those that are new to science before they become you know too cynical but these are the circles in which many of you are traveling in so you have an outsized role to play you know you have more power to influence change in science not less you know so if you want to speak in your own language you're welcome to do so the call will be mainly conducted in English but we encourage anyone to use your language when you're sharing your personal stories reflections and gratitude and we will try to add close captioning in English during the on the recording so I'd like to maybe start with that so I would say this just means with the following words I want to show my gratitude to all your efforts thoughts advocacy and rigorous work you have done as part of your life ambassadors program I know many of us are not English speaker natively so I just want to say thank you in my own language yes so oh thank you very much for such a lovely session it was very inspirational everything that you said I feel very grateful to be part of this community and yeah we would like to finish this with a video and in which you can say thank you in your own language and also if you don't feel comfortable with it you can turn off your videos well but the idea is to to hear you and to feel your presence so if you if you would like to be part of it you can clap as well if you if you prefer or say thank you in your language but yeah thanks all the while