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AEii Working Group (AEii WG) is an international corporative event combining diverse activities lasting one or two years, dedicated to promoting networking, communication, and knowledge sharing on a specific topic. Working Group has three missions/objectives:
- facilitate communication within AEii and beyond, helping individuals and communities gain more scientific insights,
- enhance continuous visibility on a variety of topics on a yearly basis, thus leading to a larger impact on the field,
- empower AEii’s community of researchers to publicize their research, network with other communities, and attract attention.
A WG should have one chair and three-five co-chairs, and one secretary from at least three different countries and regions. The proposal should comprise of:
- Title of the working group;
- Names, photos, institutional affiliations, email, biography of organizers, and AEii membership number (Not a member yet? Join AEii now!) of the chair, co-chairs, and secretary;
- Duration of WG: one year or two years;
- Motivation of WG (no more than 100 words);
- Missions of a WG ( no more than 100 words);
- Scope of the topic (no more than 200 words);
- A list of at least 10 tentative parteners who will join the according activities and contribute a chapter for the book/report, incl. names, emails, institutional affiliations, research interests.
AEii provides two options of the duration of a WG, one year or two years. The organizers are obliged to conduct at least four events per year and at least one activity every three months, covering but not limited to:
- Three activities from the categories of Talk (e.g. Keynote, Young Scientist Lecture, Distinguished Lecture), and Session (e.g. Special Session, Panel, Work Shop),
- One Report or one Book. Besides, Report and Book are obliged to be drafted and written by people from attendees of WG including chairs, co-chairs, keynote speakers, etc.
A WG comprises a variety of events including:
- Talk including Keynote, Young Scientist Lecture, and Distinguished Lecture. Keynote has a restriction holding in Congress and invites one influential senior scholar as speaker. Organizers are free to hold Young Scientist Lecture and Distinguished Lecture anytime during the duration of WG, inviting one young scholar for Young Scientist Lecture and one influential senior scholar in the field for Distinguished Lecture.
- Session including Special Session, Panel, and Workshop. Special Session has a restriction holding in Congress and comprises 6-8 oral presentations. Panel must be held in Congress and gathers four to six senior scholars in the field to discuss a topic regarding the trends of energy science. For Work Shop, organizers are free to hold Work Shop anytime during the duration of WG, inviting more than four scholars.
- Report. Report should be submitted to AEii no later than two months prior to the end of a WG for peer-review.
- Book. AEii provides 2 options of archiving Book including only archived by AEii proceedings and published jointly by AEii and publishers. The first draft of Book should be submitted to AEii no later than 2 months prior to the end of a WG for peer-review. If you plan to publish your book jointly by AEii and other publishers, please contact AEii Committee (publication@applied-energy.org) in the first working month to prepare the extra book proposal.
Any individual or group of individuals tending to apply for a WG downloads the application form from here, and send it to member@applied-energy.org no later than four weeks prior to the preceding WG. AEii committees and groups will check the application form and feedback to the applicants within two weeks.
