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People from all over the world can sign up to AIROYoung and to AIROYoung mailing list through the website, so to be up to date with the latest news in the community. Picture from the 4th AIROYoung workshop in Bozen (2020)ĪIROYoung created and continuously maintains also a website () to keep the community active also outside of the workshops.
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The AIROYoung workshop, with free participation and grants, continued ever since and became an annual meeting for all young researchers (Fig.
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The workshop was a success, and the engagement showed that the initial intuition was right: many young OR enthusiasts (from Italy and from all over the world) were looking for such a community. Thanks to the support from AIRO and EURO, indeed, the first AIROYoung workshop was able to offer also grants for the people that had difficulties to cover the expenses to get to the conference.
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The aim of the workshop was to start creating this community and to offer a conference where everybody could join, independently from their university funds. This is why in February 2017 they organized the first AIROYoung workshop in Rome, an event free of charge and fully focused on PhDs. Four of the people sitting at that table (Lavinia Amorosi, Veronica Dal Sasso, Martina Fischetti, and Alberto Santini) decided then to act on this and to pursue this idea of creating a community to support all PhDs students, independently from their own funds. The group took these thoughts home and noticed that, indeed, a young chapter is often missing in OR Associations, and in the specific, one was missing in the Italian one. A gap between universities and industries also emerged during the conversation. It is also very important for PhDs to feel part of a community, because they can face both practical and stress problems during their PhD, and it is good to have people around in the same situation, with whom to share issues and look for feedbacks. We strongly believe that conferences are important for PhD students and early careers, as they give them a possibility to present their work, improve their presentation skills, get in contact with other PhDs, and maybe start collaborations. What emerged was that some students had more opportunities than others (due to the difference in funds from different research groups), in particular when it comes to conferences. The conversation handed up in a discussion about different PhD systems in different institutions and parts of the world. The group consisted mainly of Italian PhDs, part of them doing their PhD abroad. Back in 2016, a group of PhDs and PostDocs was sitting at a table, during the social dinner of the AIRO (Italian Association of Operations Research) annual conference. JAIROYoung: Our Story and Our Core ValuesĪIROYoung Researchers Chapter is part of the Italian Operational Research Society (AIRO) and, despite its recent birth, it has managed to create a very large and increasingly active community. The New Generation of OR Enthusiasts: the AIROYoung Experiment By Lavinia Amorosi and Martina Fischetti