International Association of Applied Psychology Student Division Division 15

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International Association of Applied
PsychologyStudent Division (Division 15)
9th European Congress of Psychology

• Pedro Neves
• (President of IAAP-SD)

Granada, July 2005
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What is IAAP?

• We represent the 15th Division of the
  International Association of Applied Psychology
• IAAP is the oldest international association
  with individual membership in applied psychology
• It supports and encourages an international
  approach to student research and student
  professional orientations.

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What is the Student Division?

• Our mission is to support a network of student
  who share a common interest in international
  development, trends, applications, and research
  in applied psychology
• Psychology students should have international
  exposure, ideas, and orientation when they start
  to become involved in developing and furthering
  research in applied psychology.

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What are the advantages of joining the division?

• 4 issues of the journal Applied Psychology and
  international review
• IAAP Newsletter (4 issues) with information on
  what all the divisions are doing
• IAAP-SD newsletter with reports on the activities
  we participated in
• reduced subscriptions rates for all Blackwell
  Publishing psychology journals and many other
  journals

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What are the advantages of joining the division?

• Reduced fees for the international congresses
  organized by IAAP
• Reduced fees in activities organized by the
  IAAP-SD
• Become a part of a network of students where you
  can ask for informations, exchange ideas, propose
  activities
• Information in advance about congresses,
  activities, promotions, etc...

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What have we done so far?

• The division was created in the IAAP congress in
  Singapore, August 2002
• We had business meetings with APAGS, APA Div. 52
  IUPsyS, SIP and EFPSA for the past 3 years
• We created a mailing list iaap_sd_at_yahoo.com,
• a website at www.iaapsd.org,
• and our newsletter (2005)
• We organized several activites at international
  congresses such as EAWOP(2003), EFPSA (2004 e
  2005), IUPsyS (2004), EFPA (2005), SIP (2005).

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What are our plans for the future?

• To continue to organize activities and promote
  the student division at international psychology
  congresses (e.g. ICAP 2006, EFPSA 2006)
• To create better links to national and
  international organizations, so that we have a
  bigger presence worldwide
• To enhance the possibility of gathering members
  from underdevelopped countries
• To make our mailing list, webpage and newsletter
  preferencial places for the exchange of
  experiences in psychology worldwide
• To help promote applied psychology.

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Thank you very much for your attention...
www.iaapsd.org iaap_sd_at_yahoo.com