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Appendix 17: Constantine Evangelides (Session VI-2)
The SYLFF Fellows Network in Greece
By Loukas Spanos
Loukas Spanos is a SYIYF fellow who is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Deportment of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Loukas also is chairman of the recently established Hellenic Association of SYLFF Fellows of The Tokyo Foundation. Here he introduces the association and encourages other SYLFF fellows to form similar networks or associations, so that exchanges and collaboration among fellows can be vitalized further worldwide.
Following an initiative by recipients of Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) fellowships, the Hellenic Association of SYLFF Fellows of The Tokyo Foundation was founded in April 2002. Those who have been awarded SYLFF fellowships during their studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens are eligible to join the association. To date there have been 125 SYLFF fellows at the university. This number is increasing every year, because the SYLFF grants about 25 fellowships annually.
The association, in accordance with the goals, principles, and directions of the SYLFF Program, aims to promote intellectual and scientific activities within the social sciences and humanities, and to initiate and elicit the leadership potential of its members.
Specifically, the association's main goals are the following:
1. To constitute an additional channel of communication between The Tokyo Foundation and members of the association, and to continuously strengthen the association's links and contacts.
2. To encourage and actively help the members of the association to participate in SYLFF programs and activities.
3. To function as an efficient link among the association's members.
4. To be a forum through which the members can develop their professional and social activities.
5. To induce cooperation with academic and research institutes, public and nonprofit organizations, private corporations, and society as a whole, both in A drawing of the main building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
A drawing of the main building the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Greece and abroad, in order to achieve its goals.
The association is administered by a board of directors, composed of five members who are elected every three years during the association's general assembly. The board's activities are coordinated by a number of committees that are responsible for specific matters (such as organizing lectures and other events, publishing a newsletter, and so on).
Within this framework we strongly encourage SYLFF fellows from other SYLFF institutions around the world to set up similar networks or associations. The existence of such networks and/or associations of SYLFF fellows worldwide will provide opportunities for SYLFF fellows to communicate and to collaborate on an international level, with mutual benefits. Fellows with leadership potential from different countries and disciplines could create an international forum, exchanging views and conducting research in the social sciences and humanities. Such collaboration could take the form of joint workshops and/or conferences, exchange programs, joint-research activities, and so on A SYLFF fellows' network can also be an innovative mechanism by which to promote and strengthen the SYLFF's main goal of bettering society as a whole.
We encourage SYLFF fellows worldwide who might be interested in setting u p a network in their own country to communicate with us (ljspanos@econ.uoa.gr) in order to find and build on common ground for mutual collaboration.
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