Among WAYS objectives, we should promote education in science to increase the understanding of science by the general public, facilitate the access to careers in science for young scientists and encourage international mobility, and facilitate the emergence and sharing of scientific knowledge to reduce the gap between developed and less developed countries.

E-learning is now blooming all over the world and numerous free lectures, courses or protocols are available. WAYS should provide up-to-date information about academic materials: what, where, in which language are available.

Part I: WAYS and wlp
One of our members, Michael Fischer, a philosopher and lecturer at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany), has started an exciting project aiming at gathering available lectures worldwide: the World Lecture Project. Here are two aspects where we can surely contribute.

Database expansion:
Collecting free lectures on the web is of course a key activity and we have an essential role to play at WAYS since we could bring information about all of the countries in any languages. Having a centralized database and sorting out lectures by languages instead of universities would make a lot of sense.

Financing:
At the moment WLP is doing a survey of potential financial support programs, essentially in the EU. If you know about such programs, especially extra-EU funding possibilities, your input is welcome. More generally grant application skills would be of valuable help.

Part II : Beyond available lectures
Collecting lectures is a fantastic project but WAYS should certainly play a more active role in knowledge transfer. Two examples in brief:

• Given our diversity of scientific fields and languages spoken, it is conceivable to have any lectures subtitled upon request in any languages. This would be valuable for the community and would also benefit the translator by enriching his CV.
• We could also broadcast lectures from our members -in principle this only requires a camcorder and an agreement from the university- an initiative that would have two advantages. Young scientists are usually at ease in establishing contact with students; lectures could be more "lively", more attractive. Recorded lectures could also be the basis to discuss best practices and to set up a prize in teaching for young scientists.

Collecting available material is of course not restricted to lectures and could also apply to PowerPoint presentations, protocols ... Moreover, all of the above would perfectly apply to science education of the general public, another key objective of our academy.