• What is the Scientific Community of SZN?
The Scientific Community was established according to the Statute of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn entered into force in May 2011.
The Community aims to bring together researchers interested in the scientific activities of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and to involve them in the Institute’s life.
The Scientific Community also has the important task to participate in election of one member of the Administration Board of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn.
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn also intends to communicate with the scientific community on regular basis, to report important events of its activities and scientific life.
The Community was formed for the first time in July 2011, it consisted of 589 members and had appointed, as member of the Board, Prof. Silvano Focardi, whose mandate ended on 20 October 2015.
In June 2015 the Community formed in 2011 was cancelled and a new one was established. The present Community is composed of 560 members, who have appointed, as new member of the Administration Board of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Prof. Serena Fonda, whose mandate will end on October 21, 2019.
According to the current SZN Statute and SZN “Regolamento di Organizzazione e Funzionamento (ROF)” the Community has to be updated some months before the end of the mandate of the CdA member elected by the Community.
• Who can be part of it?
The following can be part of the Scientific Community of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn:
- researchers and technologists of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (automatic registration);
- researchers associated to the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (automatic registration);
- researchers and technologists from other research organizations that operate in sectors consistent with the purposes of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn;
- professors and researchers of universities that operate in sectors consistent with the purposes of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn;
- researchers of equivalent professional level active in public and private research institutions that operate in sectors consistent with the purposes of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn.
Retired personnel and researchers of non-Italian research institutions operating in sectors consistent with the purposes of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn can be part of the Scientific Community but cannot vote the member of the Administration Board.
• Which sectors are consistent with the purposes of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn?
The sectors consistent with the purposes of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn are those related to research on fundamental processes of biology, with specific reference to marine organisms and their diversity, in close connection with the study of their evolution and dynamics of marine ecosystems, through an integrated and interdisciplinary approach.
• What are the tasks of the Community?
The Scientific Community, with a voting system, contributes to vote one of the three members of the Administration Board, which will then be appointed by the Minister of Education, University and Research.
The Scientific Community can be consulted on suggestion of the SZN President, by the Administration Board or by the Scientific Council.
• Who can vote?
All members of the Scientific Community, excluding retired personnel and researchers of non-Italian research institutions.
• When the next elections will take place?
The elections for the designation of one of the three components of the Administration Board of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn will be held before the end of the mandate of the current members of the Board (21 October 2019), with online secret ballot. The exact date of the elections will be fixed by the Administration Board of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn.
• How to become part of the Community?
Those willing to become part of the Scientific Community must register according to the terms that will be communicated through the official site of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, and the specific site.
The 2019 registration ended on 16 September 2019.
The active electorate of the scientific community will be invited to vote for a member of the Administration Board on October 7, 2019, from 08:30 to 18:30, through a specific televoting platform.
