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PRESIDENT's
VIEW

New
Members for 2009

CALL
FOR MEMBER CORRESPONDENTS

Annual
Conference 2009 - Naples report

Meeting
report - Jont meeting of the Classics and Medicine Sections

In
other news

Elections cycle for 2009-2010

Members
should complete the nominations forms (download
from here) and send them electronically directly to the
appropriate Section Chair (list
here). For standard nominations the proposals should reach the
Section chairs not later than the end of January 2010.
All nominations will be assessed and reviewed by the Section
Committees and then go to the Nominations Sub committee at the
Annual conference in Leuven, in September 2010, where election will
take place.

Recent Book Publications by
Members

Islamic Art and Architecture in the European
Periphery: Crimea, Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural Region.
Edited by Barbara
Kellner-Heinkele , Joachim Gierlichs, and Brigitte Heuer
(Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Bd. 63) Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2008, 284 pp. Paperback, 299 pages, 5
black-an-whiteillustrations, 139 coloured illustration ISBN10:
3-447-05753-X ISBN: 978-3-447-05753-068,00 Euro  To
order:

"World Literature, World Culture":
Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen and Jakob
Stougaard-Nielsen. contact
Svend Erik Larsen

"George Francis Fitzgerald" Edited by
Denis
Weaire

The European Review forward plans and how
to access online

See
the current
issue of the European Review and access the Open Access papers
on "Open Access"  Get online access here

Look
forward to Volume 18: Issues will include focuses on "Health";
"Evolution"; "Migration" ; "Causality" and a supplement from the
HERCULES group conference in Torino: "Diversification  Higher
Education and the Academic Profession".

Members
are always free to submit papers and review articles for
publicaiton. Ideas for a focus within an issue are
always welcome, as are offers to help with Book Reviews, Peer
Reviewing and offers to act as a guest editor for specific
topics. Contact Theo
D'Haen the Editor-in-Chief

2009 Overdue Subscriptions - reminder to
members

The
following members are exempted from paying a subscription: All
members over 75 years of age; Foreign members, Life members,
Honorary members and any individuals that have asked for an
exemption. All other members are expected to help support the
Academia and develop our work by paying a subscription. 40% of your
subscriptions will be allocated to your Section, to support activity
development. This year a figure of 120 Euros was set (in
fact at a fixed exchange rate of 100 pounds sterling so
under current conditions you get a saving!). The London office
have just sent out a mailing to all members who have not yet made
any payment. You can now also pay
online   . You can find your membership number by
using the search facility here .
The end of our financial year is March 2010, so please pay as
soon as possible, or in case of individual difficulty or a wish to
pay a different amount, contact
the office.

NEWS OF MEMBERS

Announcements
received:

We are sad to report the death earlier this
year of  Professor
Torsten Husén

Professor
Barry VL Potter shared the 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry
Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize and Medal and the 2009
GlaxoSmithKline International Achievement Award for his work in drug
discovery. These were awarded in September respectively at the 15th
RSC-SCI Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Cambridge and at the
British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester, where he delivered
the lecture "Steroid Sulfatase Inhibitors: from Concept to
Clinic"

The
following international events and calls for papers have been
received:

The
25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
(ISCIS 2010) will be held in London at the Royal Society, on
September 22-24, 2010 and is organised by Imperial College.
weblink;
contact Erol
Gelenbe

At the Royal Society - London a
discussion meeting: "Greenhouse Gases
in the Earth System: setting the agenda to 2030" - February
(22-23, 2010) link

"Geoenginnering: A brave new world?"
- 19 January at the Royal Society. See

42nd
International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics Multiparametric
observation and analysis of the Sea:  26-30 April
2010 . see

Science
and policy reports:

EU:
"Recommendation on a Code of
Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Research"  A Consultation is open. For details click
here

European
Academies' Science Advisory Council - EASAC

The
Academia Europaea is a founder member of the EASAC. This grouping of
National Academies of Sciences in Europe undertakes in depth
analyses of science for advising European Poliymakers. The
Secretariat for EASAC will move from the Royal Society in London in
the spring, to the new German National Academy - Leopoldina , at
Halle. The focus in on sciene into genral public policy topics -
duch as for example: Energy, Antimicrobial Resistance.....  For
more information and to download all the expert reports follow the
link in the heading and here.
The Academia Europaea representative on the group is Brian Heap
. Contact him if you have any suggestions for possible new topics.
The group does not address issues relating to the non empirical
Humanities, nor to European Research Policy in general. These are
areas that the Academia Europaea itself will address. So, if anyone
wishes to raise any issues that we should tackle, via events or
expert reports, please do contact the President.

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This
is the second E-newsletter and I would welcome feedback on how to
continue to improve what we send to members. I have also issued a
"Call for Correspondents" and I do hope that some members will be
interested in taking on this role, especially in relation to
generating news coming from individual memnbers of the
Sections. It might be possible to start to develop Section specific
newsletters if we can get regular supplies of suitable material.

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PRESIDENT's
VIEW

Our
Academy now has about 2200 members. That may seem a large number,
but the fact is that in the twenty years of our existence, there are
very many more distinguished scientists and scholars in Europe who
definitely should have been elected as members, but who were not. In
the long run this is a serious problem. The authority and respect of
the Academia Europaea may suffer considerably if this situation is
allowed to continue. The problem differs in magnitude between
disciplines and between countries. The main reason for the problem
is, possibly, that the nomination process is perceived as being
complicated, and that it is easier to nominate someone who you know
personally, than a person you only know through his or her
publications record. As it is now, many members seem reluctant to
nominate even the most obvious candidates! A related problem is the
imbalance that exists within many sections, where certain fields of
study are ‘over-represented’, while other fields are virtually
absent among our members. The Academy has an instrument, which in
the short run may be used to remedy some of these difficulties: the
so called “President’s list”. I would like to invite members to take
this opportunity and look around Europe in their academic
disciplines, in neighbouring disciplines and also perhaps more
widely in their own countries across all disciplines, to see if they
can identify outstanding academic persons who have escaped our
notice. The resulting names, if possible with a link to an online
biography or c.v, should be sent to the Secretariat before the end
of the year. It is certainly not my intention that this should be an
easy way to become a member of the AE, only that it will be more
easy than usual to nominate a person. The Nomination Committee will
then do the usual job of investigating the qualifications and
suitability of the suggested persons. A sentence along with the name
would be helpful, to indicate what the main qualification or reasons
for membership are. It would also be helpful if members could focus
on any fields of study which in their opinion are poorly represented
among our members. You can search the database or browse the
directory online, to find out what fields of scholarship are covered
by our members. On the basis of your suggestions and in
collaboration with members of the Council and Board, I shall then
make a “President’s list” for 2010, which will be discussed in the
usual way by the Nomination Committee. For me, the President’s list
highest priority will be either scientists and scholars who
definitely should have been elected long time ago, or candidates
from those fields of study that are poorly represented. Nominations
for disciplines that are fairly well represented among our members
should take place in the usual way. If anyone wishes to discuss this
issue, please do email me. FOR THE LATEST LIST OF NEWLY ELECTED
MEMBERS SEE::::::::::::
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New Members for 2009

As
a result of two rounds of nominations this year, the Nominations
committee and the Council have approved for invitation to
membership, over 120 European Scholars. Butm, given the size of the
community of scholars across the continent, this is still a very
small number. The President has expressed his wish to see existing
members nominating many more suitable candidates, and especially in
disciplines that are either hardly or not represented - for example
in the Agri-Food-Forestry and animal sciences disciplines and others
such as Statistics and the disciplines associated with the emergence
of Nanosciences - to mention only a very few.

There
are two methods: A standard nomination
for Ordinary, Foreign and Honorary membership (see
this link). This is not difficult and members can nominate
scholars form any discplines, not necessarily their
own.

The
second route is the "President's List".
This is a much simplified method, but can only be used
for those eminent and outstanding people who perhaps should have
been elected many years ago and who for whatever reason were
forgotten or overlooked. This procedure must be limited to cases
that are so obvious that there is has
been an assumption that they were perhaps already a
member!! - for example the recipients of major international prizes
and eminent scholars who may have moved career into less research
oriented areas, but who have however made a very substantial
contribution to the European science and scholarly scene. Further
information and the forms on this procedure can be found
via this link.......

If
you want to see the list of those who were elected in April and
September 2009, go
here
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CALL FOR MEMBER CORRESPONDENTS

We
are trying to improve and to increase our communication with the
membership and also to develop new material that will be of interest
outside of the Academia Europaea. We will from time to time, publish
'The Tree' newsletter, but want to focus on more regular and
rapid communication via web based methods, such as this one. We
would also like to develop more science based newsletters that are
targeted at specific Sections.  To do this, we need material,
news and even research reviews and other "topics of interest", that
could be published and circulated.  The Academia Europaea has a
unique membership resource. To deliver this we need help. We have
been lucky to have won a sizeable grant from the Swedish Riksbanken
Jubileumsfond for a five-year development programme. Hermann Maurer
(Chair of the Informatics Section) is putting together an exciting
suite of facilities, that will help to deliver this (see later
item). But, we do need regular, well written information from
members, about members' (and their research) for members.
I would be please to receive offers from any reader -
especially retired members who have time  to act as
National, and/or 'Section correspondents'. These 'Correspondents'
will  play an imporatnt role in our communication
strategy. Please let me know if  you are interested in helping.
Oh I forgot to mention, I hope that we will be able to make an
honorarium available to our Correspondents.   - mail me David
Coates
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Annual Conference 2009 - Naples
report

As,
always members who participated in the Annual Conference
had a busy few days, enjoyed a unique venue, a stimulating programme
of speakers and  transacted some important business for
the Academy. In addition, participants were entertained to a
wonderful concert and visit to the Music Conservatoire of Naples and
sampled, in some quantity, the food of the region!

If
you want to read more, then follow
the link to find:

Report of the conference programme,

Main issues addressed at the Annual Businss Meeting, including
changing the legal status of the Academy and Governance structure

View
the photographs of the event and the  area,

Programme archive, including information from the Naples
Geological and Archaeological field excursion.

The
President and the Board would like to thank the sponsors of the
conference (see the link page) and especially the local organising
group, headed by Giuseppe de Natale. He was the lynchpin that
guaranteed a successful event.

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The
caravan now moves on to the North West of Europe, and to LEUVEN in
Belgium, where the 2010 conference will
take place between 9 -11 September. The topic is "Beyond Lisbon: Europe as a
Knoweldge-Intensive Society". Theo D'Haen and our Belgian
members have already put together a draft programme, which you can
look at here....
Further information will be published via these newsletters, on
our website and  inserted into the European Review over the
coming months. If anyone has ideas for additional sessions, small
Section meetings or related activities, or if anyone wishes to offer
a Poster, please contact Theo
D'Haen in the first instance.
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Meeting report - Jont meeting of the
Classics and Medicine Sections

CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN’S LIBER
PANTEGNI
TRANSMISSION OF GREEK MEDICAL TRADITION TO THE LATIN
WEST
VIA BYZANTIUM AND THE ARABIC WORLD

Held
at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, June 4–6, 2009. This was an
interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by
the Academia Europaea
and the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation. The organisers were:
Matti Haltia and Heikki Solin

For
a full report  see
this link
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