Our Society has made great and positive changes in our operations over the past decade. We have implemented the Responsive Online System for Acta Horticulturae submission and review - ROSA (Drew, 2018) through the wonderful and great efforts and guidance of Professor Dr. Yves Desjardins, past ISHS Board Member for publications. Our present Board members, Professor Dr. Silvana Nicola and Dr. Jill Stanley, led the transformation of our 24 former scientific Sections and Commissions (Hummer, 2010) into the 14 sleek revised, efficient, and effective Divisions (Stanley, 2018). These Divisions manage similar numbers of Working Groups and symposia at much lower cost to the Society. Beginning in 2016, we initiated Symposia 2.0, where clusters of smaller symposia meet with continental or regional Congresses; once again a cost savings opportunity for the Society (Drew, 2018). At the last International Horticultural Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, the most diverse group of Board members ever for this Society were elected, ensuring broader and specific representation of members from Oceania, Africa, and Central and South America, in addition to those from Europe, Asia, and North America. Through another recent initiative, ISHS now places special emphasis on training and awarding our "young minds," which includes recently hired horticultural scientists, post-doctoral candidates, and graduate students (Paiva, 2019). Each Chronica Horticulturae now includes summaries written by award-winning "young minds" who presented their research at ISHS symposia. Also, international training workshops are being held for students such as the First ISHS Summer School on Pre- and Postharvest Physiology of Temperate Fruit Crops that occurred in Germany in 2018, and the ISHS School on Beverage Crops that will take place in Brazil in 2020 (Paiva, 2019).
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