The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference and General Assembly 2025 took place in a hybrid format on 21 and 22 March 2025 in Kraków, Poland. The event gathered hundreds of MCAA members and non-members, both onsite and online, offering them a stage for engaging discussions, knowledge sharing, and networking.
Under the theme “Research and Innovation in a Rapidly Evolving World,” the event featured two plenary sessions and 16 main parallel sessions, distributed across four blocks of four sessions each. In total, 18 sessions were held, covering a wide range of themes including Open Science, research assessment, mental health, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and science communication.
The hybrid conference brought together 532 registered participants, 303 of which attended onsite and 229 online. The programme involved 79 speakers, 19 moderators, and 16 rapporteurs. In the research-focused sessions, 47 posters were presented, and 81 lightning talks were delivered. All 18 conference sessions were recorded.
