Thanks EAecon for organizing the retreat! It provided me with a brilliant opportunity to connect with people from different background(ug, pg, working), to share our concerns and to gain advice. Most important, learn about the on-going projects related to GPR. And extra thanks for being so considerate, making the event easily accessible even I twisted my ankle. Hope this initiative can benefit more people!
I am extremely keen to go, but due to my passport it takes over a month to acquire a visa. I would have definitely applied if there were two weeks more of a heads-up, especially as I have some musings that I am interested to mull over with peer professors. Please when organizing the next one, do give a bit more of an advanced notice, for those of us with weaker passports.
Background: In my first post, I introduced EAecon, a new community-building project. You can read 10-second, 30-second and 300-second summaries here.
Applications are open until Sunday, June 12th, 2022
The EAecon Retreat will be a ~30-person retreat for facilitating connections between EA economists of all levels. The main aims of the event will be to gather EA economists together to present work, network, and foster social cohesion.
EAecon will cover room, board, and reasonable travel expenses (incl. visa/passport applications) for all attendees. See more details here.
The two-day retreat will exchange more in-depth Global Priorities Research topics from longtermist to non-longtermist EA economic work:
We are open to applications from advanced undergraduate, master's, Ph.D. students, Post-Doc and more senior economists, interested in EAeconomics who may not have yet been exposed to the area more in-depth. A selection committee will review your applications on a rolling basis. You can apply by filling out this application form by June 12th, 2022 (midnight BST time).
If you have questions about the retreat, you can contact us at [email protected] or directly in the comments below, and, we will try our best to answer your questions!
If you are unsure whether to apply, do it! Looking forward to building EAecon together.
So 'all levels' does not include late-stage or post-PhD economists?
Thanks Michael for your interest and your comment: sure thing it does, fixed.