The ECFA Early Career Researcher's Panel: composition, structure, and activities, 2021 -- 2022

TL;DR

This paper describes the formation, structure, and activities of the ECFA Early Career Researcher's Panel during its first two years, highlighting its efforts to represent and support early career researchers in the field.

Contribution

It provides a detailed account of the panel's composition, organizational structure, and initiatives, which is a novel documentation of early career researcher engagement within ECFA.

Findings

Panel successfully defined its internal structure.

Responded to ECFA feedback requests.

Launched initiatives to support ECR interests.

Abstract

The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) Early Career Researcher's (ECR) panel, which represents the interests of the ECR community to ECFA, officially began its activities in January 2021. In the first two years, the panel has defined its own internal structure, responded to ECFA requests for feedback, and launched its own initiatives to better understand and support the diverse interests of early career researchers. This report summarises the panel composition and structure, as well as the different activities the panel has been involved with during the first two years of its existence.