2020, with all its challenges, has also shined a light on the importance of welfare in our careers and professional lives. Taking care of our career prospects and our welfare as Early Career Scientists is essential for our success. During this ECS symposium we have incorporated the Community Corners from the FEMS Congress in 2019 in the hope we that we can all engage and use these environments to come together to discuss important topics around ECS welfare in academia.

This year we will be delivering Community Corners in order to join different perspectives and knowledge. The Community Corners will be safe environments in which we can all share different resources, opinions, allyship and solutions that will enable the ECS community make educated opinions, use reliable references and hopefully thrive if dealing with any of these topics. Join us in this journey and help us create more environments in which we can continue to discuss similar topics.

All participants are required to read SfAM’s Safe Space policy before attending the community corner conversations.