Working Groups

Working Groups are set up within the ECR NoN to work on specific initiatives (e.g. Future Earth).

Future Earth Working Group

The aim of the working group is to engage ECR’s in Future Earth and to ensure that issues and opinions of ECR’s are addressed throughout the work of Future Earth. Specifically the working group aims to improve the opportunities for any individual ECR to engage with Future Earth and other ECR’s with interest in Future Earth, such as through the Future Earth Open Network and Future Earth Knowledge-Action Networks etc. The working group aims to be formally recognized by Future Earth as representing a diversity of ECR networks and aims for ECR’s to be consulted and included in central decision making bodies and processes of Future Earth, such as their Engagement and Science Committees.
Terms of Reference
The following terms of reference (TOR) outline the aim, tasks and structure of a Future Earth working group (working group) within the Early Career Researchers (ECR) Network of Networks.

1. Aim / Objective / Mission
  1. The aim of the working group is to engage ECR’s in Future Earth and to ensure that issues and opinions of ECR’s are addressed throughout the work of Future Earth.
  2. Specifically the working group aims to improve the opportunities for any individual ECR to engage with Future Earth and other ECR’s with interest in Future Earth, such as through the Future Earth Open Network and Future Earth Knowledge-Action Networks etc.
  3. The working group aims to be formally recognized by Future Earth as representing a diversity of ECR networks and aims for ECR’s to be consulted and included in central decision making bodies and processes of Future Earth, such as their Engagement and Science Committees.

2. Tasks of the WG
To achieve its aims and mission the working group seeks to carry out the following tasks:
  1. To maintain communication with Future Earth and represent the decisions of the NoN in Future Earth.
  2. To inspire and develop early-career relevant activities with Future Earth, including an open early career community.
  3. To identify ECR liaisons to Future Earth initiatives, including, but not limited to, core projects (where appropriate), Knowledge-Action Networks, and the Future Earth Open Network.
  4. To facilitate knowledge exchange and rapid dissemination of information between Future Earth and the ECR networks represented by NoN. This includes e.g. information about projects, grants and conferences. ​

3. Structure

  1. The working group consists of members of the NoN interested in the topic of the working group (see Terms of Reference of the NoN for structure and diversity statement of the NoN).
  2. Each member participates with a responsible representative and possibly additional ECR’s.
  3. In any decision making context members of the NoN have equal weight and decisions are in general made by simple majority, striving toward consensus.
  4. The members of the working group appoints two co-chairs and the additional delegated positions it finds necessary.
  5. Co-chair positions have a two year term length, with the option of re-election.
  6. Delegated positions can be on a two year term basis or on an ad-hoc basis.
  7. The basis of the delegated positions is decided at its creation and modified by a majority of the working group members.
  8. The co-chairs and any non ad-hoc delegate positions make up the governing body of the working group.
  9. Co-chairs liaise between the working group and the NoN and informs the NoN about activities of the working group. This includes participation in open council meetings etc.
Working Group Members
  • Ruth Delzeit - German Network of Early Carreer Scientists in Future Earth
  • Jennie Dodson - Network of Early-career Sustainable Scientists & Engineers (NESSE)
  • Thomas Edison dela Cruz - Global Young Academy (GYA)
  • Chijioke J. Evoh - Economic and Urban Policy Analysts (ECONUPA)
  • Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger - Earth System Governance Project - ESG
  • Alice C. Hughes - Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation capacity building committee (ATBC CBC)
  • Peter Søgaard Jørgensen - International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists (INNGE)
  • Gaby Langendijk - Young Earth System Scientists community (YESS)
  • Robert Lepenies - Global Colleagues - Academics Stand Against Poverty (Global Colleagues-ASAP)
  • Michelle Lim - IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Early Career Group (IUCN WCEL ECG)
  • Nibedita Mukherjee - Cambridge Conservation Initiative ECR network (David Attenborough Building)
  • Aidin Niamir - IPBES Young Fellows
  • Hanne Nielsen - Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
  • Jay Pocklington - Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)​
  • Carina Wyborn - Luc Hoffmann Institute (LHI)