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Jan Mees
Description Jan Mees, director of the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), explains the aim of the annual VLIZ Young Marine Scientist Day and why this event is so successful (in 2012 in its 12th edition).
For VLIZ this annual meeting is a very important event, as in this event we target our core network: all the young marine scientists in our country and surroundings. We provide them with a central platform where they can interact and where they can meet each other and their peers, and with senior scientists. In this way VLIZ hopes to create an interdisciplinary and interuniversity network of marine young scientists and that they make relationships that last for their whole career in marine sciences and marine policy.
Today we have 330 registered participants today, making a significant part of the marine science community in Belgium (1500 fulltime equivalents). They come from all universities within Flanders, but also from the francophone universities in Brussels and the south of Belgium. We also welcome participants from the north of France, The Netherlands. We see people from very different faculties and disciplines. We break down the barriers within institutes and between faculties and research divisions.
The VLIZ Young Marine Scientists Days started in 2001 and was organized yearly since. We started with 100-250 participants and now we count 330, showing there is a lot of interest in this kind of event.
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