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Six reasons to launch a Young Academy

As the first national network of early-career researchers marks its 21st birthday, the founders of Hungary’s describe how and why they set up theirs in 2019.
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  1. Erika Bálint

    1. Erika Bálint is an assistant professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.

  2. Dorottya Csuka

    1. Dorottya Csuka is a senior research fellow at the Department of Internal Medicine and Haematology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

  3. Viktória Venglovecz

    1. Viktória Venglovecz is an associate professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.

  4. Gitta Schlosser

    1. Gitta Schlosser is an assistant professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

  5. Zsófia Lázár

    1. Zsófia Lázár is assistant professor at the Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

  6. Eszter Gselmann

    1. Eszter Gselmann is an associate professor at the Department of Analysis, Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.

  7. Donát Alpár

    1. Donát Alpár is a senior research fellow in the 1st Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

  8. Katalin Solymosi

    1. Katalin Solymosi is an assistant professor at the Department of Plant Anatomy, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

Twenty-one years ago this month, Germany became the first country to launch a national Young Academy of early-career researchers. This spawned a movement that now straddles 45 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, including 14 in Africa and 13 in Asia. Such academies now exist in countries that score well in academic-freedom indices, and in some that don’t.

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Nature 594, 599-601 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01682-9

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