Partner with ACH

The Asian Congress of Herpetology (ACH) is being developed as a collaborative platform for the entire Asian herpetological community. Building a truly continental Congress requires more than organizers and sponsors—it requires scientists, institutions, educators, professional networks, conservation organizations, journals, specialist groups, and individuals who are willing to contribute their knowledge, experience, networks, and ideas.

Whether you can teach, organize, connect people, develop a scientific program, bring a professional meeting to ACH, promote the Congress within your country, support young researchers, or contribute institutional expertise, there may be a place for you within ACH.

Represent ACH within your country and help connect the Congress with your national herpetological community.

Country Representatives may help promote ACH, distribute announcements, connect universities and research institutions, encourage abstract submissions, identify potential participants, develop national networks, and strengthen participation from their country.

Experienced researchers may contribute to the scientific quality of ACH by joining the Scientific Committee, reviewing abstracts, advising on symposium placement, helping develop scientific sessions, and maintaining appropriate academic standards. Researchers with appropriate expertise may volunteer to review submitted abstracts within their specialist field, helping ACH maintain a rigorous, fair, and efficient review process.

Bring an important scientific subject, emerging research area, taxonomic group, geographic region, or conservation challenge to ACH. Universities, research groups, scientific societies, specialist networks, NGOs, and individual researchers may propose Special Symposia and help bring together relevant experts and contributors.

Share your expertise with the next generation through the Asian Herpetology Summer School. Experts may contribute lectures, field instruction, laboratory demonstrations, practical training, mentoring, or specialist modules in areas such as taxonomy, ecology, evolution, field methods, molecular systematics, conservation, GIS, statistics, scientific writing, wildlife health, venom research, or emerging technologies.

Experienced specialists may propose or lead practical ACH workshops in areas such as R statistics, ecological modelling, GIS, taxonomy, nomenclature, phylogenetics, eDNA, bioacoustics, IUCN assessments, scientific writing, presentation skills, CITES, wildlife trade, and other relevant methodologies.

Already planning a regional or international meeting? Bring it to Yogyakarta and hold it alongside ACH.

Organizations and specialist groups may use the additional meeting facilities at the Congress venue for approved working-group meetings, specialist forums, technical meetings, conservation planning sessions, editorial meetings, research-network meetings, or institutional discussions involving registered ACH participants.

IUCN Specialist Groups and conservation organizations may consider organizing Red List assessment workshops, reassessment meetings, species action-planning sessions, conservation prioritization exercises, or regional working-group meetings alongside the Congress.

ACH can serve as a meeting point for existing or emerging Asian research networks, multi-country projects, genomic initiatives, biodiversity-monitoring programs, disease-surveillance networks, museum collaborations, and conservation consortia.

Universities, museums, research institutes, scientific societies, government agencies, conservation organizations, and other appropriate institutions may become Official Institutional Supporting Partners of ACH. Partnerships may involve scientific collaboration, promotion, expertise, training, student participation, institutional networking, or other mutually agreed contributions.

Scientific journals and publishers may collaborate with ACH by providing special issues, thematic collections, publication opportunities, editorial forums, author workshops, peer-review training, or publication support for Congress participants.

Journals may organize Editors' Forums, Meet-the-Editor sessions, scientific-writing workshops, editorial-board meetings, peer-review training, or publishing discussions during the Congress. This creates direct interaction between researchers, students, editors, and publishers.

Organizations can establish a presence within the ACH Scientific & Commercial Exhibition to showcase research programs, technologies, publications, conservation initiatives, educational opportunities, or scientific services.

Exhibition booth rental is available separately.

Universities can use ACH to promote graduate programs, laboratories, scholarships, postdoctoral opportunities, international collaborations, field courses, and research facilities to a highly targeted Asian scientific audience.

Institutions interested in internationalization may use ACH to initiate student exchanges, joint supervision, laboratory visits, field-training programs, internships, scholarships, and collaborative graduate research between Asian universities.

Some of the most valuable partnerships may not fit into an existing category. If you have an idea that could contribute to Asian herpetology, conservation, education, public health, technology, professional development, scientific communication, or regional collaboration, we would like to hear it.

Send a brief proposal to the ACH Congress Secretariat describing:

• Who you are

• Your institution/organization

• How you would like to contribute

• What you propose to organize or support

• Who would benefit from the activity

An organization can, of course, be both an Official Partner and a Sponsor, but one status should not automatically imply the other. This protects the scientific credibility of the partnership program while keeping the door open to virtually every serious person or organization connected with Asian herpetology.