During the INSIDE-PORES Workshop at La Grande-Motte in March 2006 a group of

young scientists found together to form the Young Researcher’s Division, which was initiated

and stimulated by Farida Grinberg. The main objectives of this group are to promote the

integration of young scientists and to increase their mobility belonging to the INSIDE-PORES

network. Additionally, progress wants to be made to reinforce the scientific communication

and to make the young researchers known to each other.

The group decided in these days that the creation of a webpage will be one step to reach

the aims mentioned above. Since then, reasonable progress has been made to create a

webpage and to make it known to the young researchers. The webpage is accessible

(http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.INSIDEPOREYR) for everyone and controlled by the

Young Researcher’s Division. There, young scientists have the possibility to register and to

take part in a forum platform which was created to discuss scientific problems. Although the

webpage is only in it’s starting conditions, it already received positive interest.

Next to the webpage, the YR’s Division wants to promote the contact between the young

researchers by meetings which are dedicated to them. This interest is followed by the

proposal for a meeting in Delft which will be presented here.

One of the integration levels in the NoE “Inside-Pores” is based on four similarly

structured activities referring to Research, Sharing of Facilities, Personnel Mobility, and

Common Use of Knowledge with the main emphasis put on a coherent, integrated

coordination of the Network's resources and actions. The objectives of the meeting proposed

are perfectly in line with those integrated in the main Network’s activities.

Firstly, our intention is to promote and increase mobility of students and young

researchers. One of the solutions passes through a direct discussion of problems and

obstacles encountered during research stays at foreign laboratories. Such problems are

sometimes difficult to be overcome, they are not always well understood by more

experienced researchers, and they tend, in many cases, to block most mobility within the

NoE. We think that our meeting will also contribute to build a support structure for young

teams with a potential for excellence at a European level by providing physical mobility

opportunities between countries and between academia and industry.

Secondly, it is highly desired to intensify the existing collaborations, but also to develop

new ones, by involving in this process young researchers who provide a direct support for

research in many laboratories. This perfectly follows the NoE’s objective to increase the

connectivity and enhance knowledge transfer, as well as access to information.

Thirdly, while access to experiments will be realised through personnel mobility, routes to

facilitate communication and to share facilities will be developed in the supertool

infrastructure.