 Thank you for everyone who's joined us today. My name is Simon Clark. I'm the EGU Projects Coordination Officer and today I'll be reading or hosting the webinar on what can EGU do for you funding fellowships and more. We have four speakers with us here today. We have Helen Glades, President of the EGU, Chloe Hill, who is the EGU's Policy Manager, Martin Archer, who is the Chair of the Outreach Committee, and Jean-Luc Boingard, who is the Chair of the Education Committee. Each will be giving a short talk discussing activities you can get involved in, what opportunities they exist throughout the year outside of the General Assembly, and afterwards we'll follow through the Q&A. You should be able to ask questions in the Q&A box at the bottom of the screen, which should be active now. Before I begin though, there is already a funding deadline this month. We have a deadline on the 15th of September for funding for conferences and training schools. So proposals must be submitted before the 15th of September for funding for up to 5,000 euros. If you're submitting a proposal for a conference, there can be three types. It can be looking at novel research and innovation in the space sciences, novel research and innovation in biogeochemical sciences, or for geoscience conferences outside of Europe. For training schools, funding is a little bit more looser in terms of you can choose the topic of the school you want. However, there still are some stipulations. For example, the training school must not be held during the same time as the General Assembly, and the proposal must be submitted by each of you member. If you're interested in applying for funding for these events, you can either contact the Topical Events Committee, the email of which is topical-events.edu, or you can look at the call which I'll place in the chat now, otherwise I'll stop sharing and hand it over to Helen if I might begin. Hi, yes, thanks Simon. Hi everybody. It's a real pleasure actually to be able to introduce today's webinar. So I'm going to just say a few short words about EGU as a whole. So for those of you who don't know, EGU is probably the largest Earth and Space and Planetary Science member organisation in Europe, and we actually pride ourselves in being a bottom-up organisation, and that means that many of the key priorities for EGU are actually driven and focused by our members. But I think it's also worth highlighting the fact that while EGU is by name a European organisation, in fact our membership is global and it is highly diverse, and in fact a significant proportion of our members identify as early career scientists because when we think about diversity of our members, we're also thinking about career stage. So we also think a lot about how our activities and what the organisation as a whole does to support all of our members. So EGU, as I've said, we exist to serve our members, and we actually rely on a fantastic group of volunteers who give generously of their time as members of the Executive, the Council and Committees, and you see some of those people here today. Our volunteers also work with the wonderful EGU office team and our commercial partners at Copernicus to deliver a range of activities which we actually deliver for our members and on behalf of our members as well. EGU has an extensive portfolio of open access journals as well, and we should also mention the newly launched EGU Sphere Preprint Server because this also relies on our volunteers, our editors, but also not forgetting the huge number of people who review for the EGU journals every year. But I also want to highlight the fact that our volunteers are very much the heart of the organisation in terms of how our events are delivered. Simon in his introduction mentioned the General Assembly in Vienna, but we also have things such as the teacher-led gift workshops and the topic of events. Simon in his introduction mentioned that the next deadline for funding for our members to be able to access support from EGU from topical events, correct me if I'm wrong, is the 15th of September just to emphasise that again. But I don't want to say too much today because today's webinar is about introducing a whole range of member benefits which Chloe, Sean, Luke and Martin will introduce during this webinar. So I'm going to hand over to them to talk about the benefits that EGU can deliver to its members. So thank you Simon. I'll hand back to you to introduce the first of our speakers. Thank you so much Helen for the introduction. I would also say it's the 20th anniversary of EGU's founding this month and I believe today is the actual anniversary. So a nice little celebration I guess in this webinar. So I've moved on to our first speaker today which is Martin Archer, Chair of the Outreach Committee. If Martin you'd like to begin. Thank you Simon and thank you to Helen and thank you to everyone who's joining this webinar. So yes my name is Martin Archer. My main job is as a space scientist and based at Imperial College in London but I am as a voluntary role I have taken on the chair position at the Outreach Committee for EGU and I've been involved with this committee for I think about five years now and the committee itself is made up of lots of different volunteers. I'm going to give you a bit of a flavour of some of the benefits and opportunities that are available for you to interact with that committee and do more outreach work and further your practice in the sorts of areas that the committee covers. Objectives listed on the EGU website for what the purpose of outreach for EGU is about. So obviously we want to increase public awareness of the scientific work that the EGU membership does, particularly beyond geo science communities. So we're talking about outside of academia in its many shapes and forms. We also want to identify and highlight all of the different societal challenges that can be addressed by the EGU membership, particularly in a very prescient with the geo sciences, harnessing the expertise of our members to try and address those needs. And then coupled with a few of the other parts of EGU, we at the outreach committee try to establish and strengthen links between the EGU membership and policy decision makers with a bit of a Europe focus and that will be done in hand with the science for policy working group, which Chloe's going to talk to you about. And then also we have some level of interaction over the sort of ways that EGU communicates through things like newsletters, websites, blogs and social media, which is largely handled by the EGU office, but within the purview of the outreach committee. So yeah, we have a number of opportunities for people to actually engage. So for instance, since 2018, we established the EGU public lecture in Vienna. And that's currently done in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and we rotate the topics each year. So we reach out to our membership to ask people to speak for this. So that could be something that we may ask you to do in the future. We also have a number of outreach activities that we would do during the week of the GA. This first started out by going to the Vienna International School and giving activities to the school children there. And we have aspirations in the future that were somewhat stalled by the pandemic to actually have schools from Vienna and the surrounding areas come to the Austria Center in Vienna and interact with EGU's General Assembly itself. So that's something that hopefully we can see in General Assemblies in years to come. Outside of the General Assembly itself though, we have other opportunities. For instance, we've established these Geoscience days. These are national public engagement events with a particular focus to do these in underrepresented countries across EGU's member states. We've had one of those that was done in Romania. We have another one due to happen by the end of the year in Finland. And this is an initiative that the Outreach Committee will be continuing. And then a more recent initiative is these teacher-scientist pairing schemes where we're co-creating lessons and activities for schools by pairing teachers with active scientists. And this picture on the bottom right shows you how that could be done in practice. The lesson may be delivered by the teacher in the class and the scientist over something like Zoom. But the whole process coming up with that lesson and all the adjacent materials is really a co-creation activity between both that teacher and that scientist. We also have a funding opportunity for Geoscientists and their collaborators to enable them to do public engagement products of their own. And we particularly support innovative and effective public engagement projects that target underserved public audiences. And that scheme is open annually with grants of up to 1,500 euros. And we've had a really varied amount of projects that you can find out more about on our website. These pictures kind of illustrate some of that breadth that we've seen through that scheme. As of this year, we've instigated free online training courses. These are really in-depth online workshops from experienced professional trainers that are external to EGU that we offer up to early career members. And they can be on a broad range of topics within the scope of site communication, engagement policy, and a whole host of others. We ran one earlier on writing for non-technical audiences. And we will have another one in November, which is more on public engagement. And the applications for that will be opening very soon on the EGU website. So please do keep checking that for more information. And the final thing I want to highlight is that at the General Assembly, there are union-wide sessions on education and outreach. And these are coordinated by the outreach committee, but obviously they are proposed by our members. And they are fantastic sessions for the members of EGU to share their practice in all of these different spheres from site communication, engagement, and outreach to higher education, teaching, and research, EDI issues, and geoethics and open science. So don't forget that the session proposal for EGU General Assembly 2023 is on the 19th of September. And you can, of course, propose one of these education and outreach sessions as well. So that was a bit of a whistle stop tour of everything, well, not everything, a number of things that the outreach committee is involved with. You can find out far more information on EGU's website. And this is the part of the menu structure that you want to be looking at. And I'm happy to take questions near the ends of this webinar. Thank you. Thanks, Martin, for that introduction into the outreach committee's activities. So move quickly on. Next, we have Chloe Hill, who's going to discuss science for policy. Okay, so I'm just going to get up straight in. I'm going to try and give a relatively brief overview of the EGU's policy program, primarily focusing on some of the opportunities that exist at the moment that you can apply for and that you can engage with as members of the EGU. So for those of you who aren't aware of the EGU's policy program, it was, it is quite a new, relatively new program that was first established in 2016. And since then it has grown quite substantially. So we now run a couple of different activities and initiatives. Initially, the program was established to empower EGU members to become more actively engaged in the policy process, to give them the resources and the tools they need to communicate better and more effectively with policymakers and to understand what institutionalized processes exist primarily within Europe so that they can do that. So it was more focused on that area, as well as providing opportunities for EGU members to engage and connect with policymakers, creating these spaces for two-way dialogues, things like events, pairing schemes, which I am going to get into in the following slides, that enable individual members to meet policymakers, create those connections, network with them, and then provide them with expertise and information from a scientific perspective. Now EGU very much supports evidence-informed policymaking, which is where this comes from. And so the third aim that we have, the overarching aim, is to provide information and scientific evidence to policymakers when and where they need it. Now this is quite a challenging process and it's one that EGU has started engaging with more recently, but we're also not only are we doing this on an organizational level, but we're also trying to support our members in doing this within their own organizations as well and providing them the space to actually do that themselves. So through things like the biodiversity task force, which I'm going to talk about in a few slides time. And the fourth thing that we do, and this is actually rather indirectly, is that we support policy for science. And this refers to any policies that relate to research funding, research conditions, open access, all of these sorts of things. Things that EGU supports, but because we're still growing our policy program at this stage, we mainly support them through other European organizations by working with them and making statements and that sort of thing. So these are sort of the main goals that we have. And now I'm going to get into exactly how EGU goes about achieving those things and how you can engage with them. So the first thing I want to highlight is something that is happening at the moment. And this is the EGU science and policy pairing scheme. This is something that we first started in 2019. And in 2019, it was really successful. We had it in person. We had Solmaz, who is actually now part of the Outreach Committee. She was the selected scientist and she went to Brussels and she worked with an MAP for a week in person. And she got to experience what life is like in the European Parliament. And she had a really fantastic experience with that. If you do want to read more about her experience, you actually publish a blog post on it, which I can share either in the chat or if you're watching this on YouTube, I can put it into the description as well. But obviously in 2020, things changed a little bit. So the policy pairing scheme in 2020 did go online. And we found that was a little bit more challenging. And so this year, we're very happy to be able to get back to doing it in person. So the application process for this pairing scheme is currently open. And this year's MAP is Norbert Linds. So Norbert Linds as a member of the European Parliament was selected and invited to participate in our pairing scheme because he does work on a lot of areas that are very relevant to the geosciences. And he's also very open to receiving scientific information and expertise. So if you are interested in going to Brussels to work in the Parliament with Norbert Linds and his team for a week, you can apply until the 12th of November. And the application process is quite straightforward. It's a CV or a resume along with a motivation letter. Pretty straightforward stuff. And you can apply now online. Again, I will put this link both in the chat and in the YouTube description. But once you do that, these applications will be assessed by EDU's Science of Policy Working Group and they'll be shortlisted. And then Norbert Linds and his team will actually select the final candidate based on their information needs. So this is one way that the EDU really tries to promote this two-way dialogue, this interface and create these connections between scientists and policymakers. If you have any questions about this program, please feel free to put it into the Q&A box as well. So the next thing I would like to just touch on that I have actually already mentioned in the first slide is the EDU's Biodiversity Task Force. Now this task force is a relatively new thing for the EDU. It was actually created this year. So in January this year, we created the EDU Biodiversity Task Force and biodiversity was selected as the EDU's Policy Priority Area in 2021 by the EDU Council. So this basically means that we can focus on a particular area. We now have eight experts, eight EDU members, experts in a lot of different scientific areas who meet on a regular basis and discuss how EDU can provide relevant information and evidence to EU policy makers. So the first time that we engage, the first sort of output that this group has had is to create this response to the EU's Nature Restoration Law. This is a law that is proposed by the EU Commission and that will be amended and either accepted or rejected by the European Parliament and Council. So we responded or the EDU Biodiversity Task Force responded giving seven different recommendations about how this particular law could be strengthened and we gave this obviously from a scientific perspective. So one example you can see on the screen here, this was our second recommendation and this was to actually also include remediation as part of this EU Nature Restoration Law. Obviously remediation is very relevant for the geosciences so we felt like we were able to comment on it and remediation was actually planned to be included in this Restoration Law and it wasn't included in the end so we wanted to highlight that and see if we could get that put into the biodiversity law by the Parliament or by the Council when they're doing these amendments. So if you do want to actually engage more with this biodiversity task force, we do have an open survey trying to get feedback from the EDU membership base about the different areas you think that the task force could focus on. Again, I'll put this into the chat so you can learn more about that. I'll also put the full response to this biodiversity law in the chat as well so you can read through that if you're interested. Obviously the Biodiversity Task Force is just made up of EDU members. It is the first task force that we've had but I don't think it will be the last so if you are interested in engaging in a group setting and learning how to interact with these laws or with these processes, this is something you might want to look out for in the future as well. And if you wanted to learn more about this or you want to have more of a discussion because obviously there's more representation today less of a discussion, EDU also has regular science or policy hangouts. So these are spaces where you can actually, if they're online spaces where you can meet people who are working on the policy interface or as policymakers themselves or other people who are interested in learning more about science or policy and have discussions about certain issues or topics or challenges the scientists have when they are trying to engage with policy. So on the right hand side you can see a little word diagram of the different topics that we discussed in the last hangout. These are very informal spaces so you really can ask whatever questions you have and start the discussion around those questions. If you would like to join these hangouts, you can, the next one will be on the 3rd of November at 4.30 European time. I guess it won't be CST, I guess it'll be winter time by then but it'll be European time and you can actually already register for this online as well. And actually if you wanted to talk more about these spaces for two-way dialogues and the importance of creating these spaces where you can actually interact with policymakers, you should join our webinar on Tuesday the 27th of September at 4 o'clock. So this is actually part of the EU's 20th anniversary and we'll be having this conversation with people who are policymakers. We'll be highlighting the benefits of creating these spaces and how other scientific organizations can go about creating these spaces as well. The final thing I want to highlight is if you want more information about any of these initiatives, upcoming initiatives, non-EGU, but policy relevant initiatives, you should sign up for the EU's Science and Policy newsletter. You can find this online, again I'll also share the link. But basically this is a monthly newsletter that I send out and it will be actually sent out tomorrow so if you want to get this month's make sure you sign up today. And it just highlights what we think are the most relevant policy initiatives in Europe for the month that you might like to engage with as a geoscientist. So that is all from my side. Again if you have any questions please put them into the Q&A and I'll pass back over to Simon. Thank you, Chloe. I'm just going to move on to our final speaker for today, Jean-Luc. I am here. So hello everyone. I am Jean-Luc Berengue. So I have a position as chair of Education Committee for EGU and I would want to highlight today some action that we propose to our target audiences. So the target public for us is our teacher, mainly teacher in school with strong geoscience background or weak geoscience background. It's according to the country and we are also interested to support the teacher of university level what we call a tertiary education and also we try to propose action with researchers in geoscience education. So we have an action plan in short term to propose an action and I would like to highlight some of this action in the next slide. So usually we have four axes. So we focus our action in four axes. The blue one, the first one is about the gift. So gift means geoscience information for teacher. This is mainly workshop where teachers are selected to participate to this workshop. So I will make some details in the next slide. The second axis very important for us is the tertiary geoscience education. So that means that we support some initiative in teaching at the university level because we know that there is sometimes some lake to know how to teach at the university level and we can support some action in that way. So very strong initiative with a field officer program. I will detail what means this field officer program and of course we try to support an action workshop initiative in Europe and beyond when we some action are made well people propose to the geoscience education some help to organize some very nice geoscience teaching workshop and so we try to support this action. So if I have to speak about the gift so the main action for the education of the committee of education is our annual gift that we that run in during the general assembly. So mainly is something about the AT teacher. Well we are expecting an AT teacher from 2023. It's a workshop of two and a half days and there is a call for teacher for high school teacher middle school teacher. The call will be in December of this year and the call the teacher ask and register to be selected to participate to this workshop. This workshop this year will be around the agenda 2030. So the key role of geoscience in this global change of substantive development. Of course we we invite a lot of lecturers sometimes most of the lecturers are already in the EJU general assembly so it's easy to to get this high level lecturer and we have also poster session with the teacher and we we try also to make a hands-on session activities for the teacher. So this is our main event and teachers are welcome to to answer to to register to recall to be able to participate to this to this workshop. But we have also we support also other gifts what we call gift on the field. So there is another way to to improve is scientific background working on the field and we have two places with two field school one in current so we've organized by the current reef lab in Patras and the other one in around the Etna volcano. These two schools are organized in a very geological very interesting place and we invite some teacher they are selected and some student to to participate to this workshop. So of course there is also a call to select the teacher. Of course for 2023 the call will be on the EJU website later. Then about the tertiary geoscience educations we we help in three in three ways the geoscience teaching resource one is to ask to people to to produce and after to push online teaching resource for university. So we can help each resource selected by a grant and after we hope that in a few years we will have a very huge database of teaching resource for university freely available of course and to be done label by people and to to improve the teaching at the university. Of course there is another another help is what we call early career scientists support. So this is to support a fellowship and this the fellow will have to work to sensitize and to disseminate geoscience education development and innovation and he will have also the opportunity to present his work or her work during the general assembly in 2023. So the call of the website will be very soon in December 2022 to select this early career scientist to to go ahead with this experience and the the other one action for the teaching tertiary geoscience education is to help geoscience teaching workshop this year we have helped one of these it was in by hosted by the University of Glasgow you have a link if you have to to look at this this workshop and we hope that we will be able to help two workshops next year in this kind of topic so of course the tertiary a workshop for geoscience teaching and so we hope that we will have a well proposal and we will be able to select two of this proposal for the next year. So look at the if you're interested to propose workshop look at the website because around December 2022 we will have a call to to apply for to to propose workshop. I would want to before make the conclusion to to speak about the field officer program so the idea is to select teacher who will be able in the national and local scale to train other teacher so these teachers were selected train so now they are field officer for EGU committee of education and they have to to spread a way to teach geoscience at school around them so at the local and regional maybe national conference when they have the opportunity to participate to conference they can propose a session with very low cost materials and very easy to use material to to promote geoscience at school in european countries. We try to continue this field officer program and if there is some new core and you are in our teacher and interested to become field officer there is some opportunity to become field officer for your country actually we have 11 field officers so it's a huge number of field officer and maybe we will increase the number of field officer in the in the future so all this action well we have more action but i prefer to highlight some of this action this action are the work of the committee of education you have 15 members of this committee of education today there is one mail very important if you have question today but maybe question in the future do not hesitate to contact education at egu.eu thank you very much for your attention and simon you are you can continue go ahead with the webinar thank you sure thank you Jean-Luc for that presentation before i move on to any questions i just want to highlight some of the deadlines that were brought up in the last few talks so on the 12th of september is a deadline for the science policy pairing scheme if you want work experience for a week with an MEP in the european parliament on the 15th of september is the funding deadline for proposals for conferences and training schools on the 19th of september is the deadline for session proposals for the egu 23 general assembly and then i believe december there is a host of deadlines for education which includes funding for teaching workshops for higher education the call for teachers to attend and also the ECS education fellowship which i can't remember if i'm wrong Jean-Luc but yes thanks to our speakers today for hiding all those opportunities as we move on to q&a i just want to quickly ask martin is there also a deadline for the public engagement grants we highlight yes so normally that scheme runs opening just before the general assembly with a closing date usually in june so we've just received a whole load of applications excellent applications that we're about to approve the successful ones and then we're anticipating the same timescale in 2023 so get thinking of ideas for projects excellent so yeah there's quite a few initiatives for our open calls in the summer um yeah so that includes the funding for science journalism which is monetary support for science journalists projects there's the public engagement grants martin mentioned um yeah so basically throughout the year there'll be a lot of funding calls if and to keep in touch and see what calls are open you can follow the newsletters either the loop which is the main one or the policy newsletter or followers in social media where all calls are so highlighted uh moving into one of the questions um this one is asking is there any initiatives by the EU for the united nations decade of ocean sciences across sustainable development um i think this is a response to a policy that i think yeah so yeah yeah i think so i think that's a really great question um so this is sort of something i didn't go into detail about about how we exactly picked biodiversity as the the policy priority area for edu one of the reasons is that it actually encompasses oceans as well encompasses a lot of different edu divisions so we want to try and keep it open to as many edu members as possible while still having a specific topic that we can focus on um and i will say one of the one of the members of the edu biodiversity task force isn't is sort of working on ocean science so we are covering that aspect and there was this event in Portugal that she went to and she reported back on that to the group and we also incorporated this into our response um into the EU nature restoration law as well so the biodiversity task force included a couple of recommendations in terms of restoration in the oceans which is a focus of this EU nature restoration law so we are we are trying to focus on these different edu division areas but in terms of the specific decade of the oceans it's not something that we are specifically focusing on again just because it would really focus on more um just one division of the edu obviously there's a lot of overlap into oceans as well um but it is sort of a consideration when we're talking about the different things that we engage with as a union to as how we can represent as many members as possible so i will say if you do have anything you would like to highlight and i again i didn't go into this into in my presentation because we did run out of time or i didn't want to take up too much time um but as the the edu's policy manager i do actually publish a lot of initiatives online for our members to look at so not only do we have the science policy newsletter which is really a highlights but we also have an e-police news page more generally speaking we have an external calendar page as well where i post all of these particular events that might be of interest to edu members um as sort of a one-stop shop so if you are interested in learning more about what policy events you can go to or science policy events you can go to you can go to these external events page um or if you want to know specific information about these news items or if you would like to share a news item that you think is relevant to your division or your community that is policy relevant you can also let me know um my email is policy at edu.eu you can always email me at me on twitter um and i will actually look at these and see if we can also include them in our external events page or on our edu policy news page so great question thanks thanks chloe uh just a quick follow-up uh will the task force be opening up for new members at all or will people once you've been engaged have to be up for the next task force so this is a discussion that we will be having actually towards the end of the year again another thing i didn't mention is that edu will be hosting an event in the parliament in november so this event will be focusing on biodiversity and on the unit to restoration law um and following this event will then have the discussion about what areas of expertise we are missing within the group so obviously we have eight members and all eight members come from very different disciplines which is great because we have that diversity but biodiversity is a huge huge topic and we can always use a more diverse group of people so we'll be having that discussion within the task force about whether we'd like to include a couple more members and if this happens it will be probably opened during the edu general assembly next year so over april um so do keep an eye out in april next year thanks chloe um for the next question i think uh might be geared more to each one of you um it's also a nice little review at a certain time uh the questioner asks or says i attended the recent field officer training in boss loner and it was brilliant were the best parts was meeting other geoscience teachers in other countries and sharing ideas and the question is which other countries do you plan to join into the field officer scheme yeah thank you for your question uh well as i said we have already 11 field officers so that's in 11 countries in europe of course we begin the first step was uh to begin with a country like uh spain portugal italy france well it's not a surprise because we have a geoscience teacher in the in that country with a geoscience curriculum at school so it was easier to to begin with uh with this country now we we increase the number with us some other countries uh have we planned to increase more well the first step will be to make first an evaluation of a program because we ran the program uh since three four years three years now so uh we would prefer maybe to to make a little stop to see uh if the program is running well we think so but we have we have to make a a real evaluation of that program and then uh the idea is to well to share with more country in europe and but of course in some country we have only geography teacher or physics teacher and sometimes there is no so actually we have the plan is to join and to keep in touch with uh national association of teacher so or association of geology to well to to link the field officer with this this kind of association at the national level but also to to have a large team of national association it will be nice for us to share to share and to spread information and also when we will want to increase the number of field officer we will be in touch with a lot of teachers association and it will be easier to increase the number mainly in in pay in country where we have no field officer like in scandinavia or in the east part of europe so we we will try to do this but first we prefer to make this year an evaluation of a program before going ahead but the idea to share with more and more country in europe and maybe beyond uh it is of course uh a good a good position for for everybody and i hope i answer the question to to peter thank you shondon yeah so i think we had seven new field officers join us this year from albania and uk and greece and germany and turkey and estonia as well estonia yeah um so i think romania yeah i'm romanian yes of course sorry um so i think basically there's going to be a review of the field officer program and then um we'll look to expand into other countries after that yes um yes uh next question i have uh is there an age limitation i think not sure what this is exactly in response to um it might have been to the pairing scheme potentially yeah i i can i can say it's open to all career career stages um we're looking for people who are motivated so part of part of your motivation where it should be about why you are interested in particular working with norbert linds how your area of expertise relates to his particular needs or the needs of his team um your previous experience in either policy or outreach and just your general experience as well so that's sort of the the criteria that we'll be looking at and i should also say the pairing scheme is completely funded by the egu so we will help um fund your well we will pay for your transportation to brussels and your accommodation by the there as well excellent thanks just in case that the age limit was asking about potential audiences that you might want to engage with um through some of the egu opportunities there is no real age limit obviously the teacher scientist pairing scheme is for school schools but uh so there will be school age children but that can be at different levels depending on how the pairing works and when it comes to things like the public engagement grants we actually encourage people to to come up with projects for very diverse audiences not just thinking about schools or not just thinking about general public but you know we've had projects that have gone into prisons we've had projects that engage with artistic audiences or people with disabilities um so really thinking about all of the different ways that um you know different ways that you can section off the public um and coming up with the innovative ways making your science engaging for these people thank you martin yeah so i think a quick summary um i think you're an early career scientist onwards you can apply for any of these um and for the outreach uh projects they can be talking to any audience you would like so there's a lot of freedom there um i think it's close to wrapping up the webinar um just one final question on how i can get involved more in eju not generally i guess that means more perhaps working with working groups or committees um let's see is anyone who can talk on that perhaps i guess the um how then would you like to speak on that at all yeah sure i i think in terms of how people can get more involved um there are a whole range of things that eju offers to our members as we've heard about already from the speakers but also i think if people want to uh join eju committees um or generally just volunteer their time we regularly have calls for volunteers for people to join our committees so if you look out for those calls um if you're a younger person as chloe's mentioned already there are opportunities and martin mentioned there are opportunities um through um pairing schemes etc but i i think it's also worth saying that many of our events are open to everyone um the only caveat to that is if you are if you are considered a minor so under 18 you would need to have a um an adult um who would um support you and accompany you but each of you is open to everybody um but obviously we do have a duty of care and for that reason if if you are under 18 then we would ask you to nominate an adult who would be responsible for your involvement but i think if you want to volunteer your time there are loads of calls and opportunities that that go out through the year um so look out for those um because we are really keen to engage with a as diverse a group of people as possible because as i mentioned in my introduction eju is driven by our volunteers and we heavily rely on our volunteers and so having as a wider range of people involved as possible is a benefit to each of you as a whole and so we welcome people to to to actually engage with us at all levels thanks helen yeah i'd like to just quickly highlight a couple of ways to get involved um in terms of general assembly um we have paid communication interns um those optimized calls are opened a few months before the general assembly so if you want to get some insight into behind the scenes and how we run such large conference uh keeping out for that again they're paid internship positions um and also like if you're an early career scientist as well there are ecs representatives everyone's get involved more of the eju that way you can contact representative and see if we can join one of their teams which usually involve everything from posting workshops to um running social media or producing scientific articles um with that i think the webinar is now at its end i'd like to thank um all our speakers for attending today uh our attendees for coming through and listening to us and yes have a nice day of advice thank you bye