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POSTER PRESENTATIONS (ePOSTERS GUIDELINES)

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POSTER PRESENTATIONS

We are glad to inform authors of abstracts accepted for poster presentation, that EWDA2018 will introduce e-posters.

All posters will be presented as e-posters, so poster presenters do not need to bring a printed copy of their poster at the Conference.

E-posters will be presented on special monitors at the conference venue.

WHAT IS AN E-POSTER?

The e-poster is a poster presented as a power point presentation.
The e-posters will be presented on monitors and not on poster boards.
Three monitors (e-poster stations) placed at the conference venue will be used to display the posters. Posters per station will be announced at the venue.
The e-posters will be viewed on a high resolution screen during all the days of the conference. E-posters will be presented per session – one session per day. Posters will be presented in a loop and slides will be changing periodically.
Four (4) separate e-poster sessions will be announced in our program, while posters per session will be announced in the E-posters schedule.
E- Posters will be displayed on the monitors during the whole day of the poster session and only during the poster session presenters will have to be available for presentations and questions.
The e-poster option allows attendees to watch all e-poster presentations, to search by author, title or session.
E-posters comply with EWDA 2018 dedication to go green!

GUIDELINES FOR E-POSTERS

The e-poster should bear the same title, authors, order of authors and their affiliations, as the abstract submitted.
You can create the e-poster on Powerpoint as usual. Please use Powerpoint 2013 or earlier, and then save the presentation in ppt/pptx format, as well as pdf format.
Ιt is important you make sure to use the following settings at the Page Setup: “Custom Size: width 90cm X height 50cm” and “Orientation: Landscape”
The presentation should consist of only one (1) slide (ppt/pptx)
You should send the e-poster in ppt/pptx format
E-posters will be displayed on monitors with full HD resolution (1920X1080) pixels and a widescreen ratio 16:9.
Available time for every e-poster presentation should not exceed the five (5) minutes, comments and conversation included.

You are kindly requested to send us the e-poster by e-mail (ewda2018@uth.gr) at your earliest convenience and no later than the 17^th of August.

EWDA 2018 Workshops

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Pre conference workshops will take place on Monday, August 27, 2018.

Please sign up for the workshops you are interested in on our registration page.

The 13th EWDA Conference offers the following Workshops:

NEW!! Disease Risk Analysis for Translocations
Wildlife population assessment – a key tool in epidemiology (Canceled)
Marine Priority Habitats and species: Applied biomonitoring in Marine Protected Areas and the special-case of Marine Mammals
2nd EWDA Wildlife Histopathology Workshop
Methods to investigate the association between wildlife and human cases in a zoonotic disease outbreak; the WNV example
Wildlife disease monitoring: techniques and Cost-benefit trade-offs analysis

Workshop title	Disease Risk Analysis for Translocations	Wildlife Histopathology	Wildlife disease monitoring: techniques and Cost-benefit trade-offs analysis	(Canceled) Wildlife population assessment – a key tool in epidemiology	Marine Priority Habitats and species: Applied biomonitoring in Marine Protected Areas and the special-case of Marine Mammals	Methods to investigate the association between wildlife and human cases in a zoonotic disease outbreak; the WNV example
Workshop coordinators	Tony Sainsbury, ZSL	K. Lemberger/ Vet Diagnostics, Lyon G. Wibbelt/ Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, U. Hofle, University of Castilla-La Mancha, IREC	Dr. Sasan Fereidouni / University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna	Dr. Joaquín Vicente & Dr. Pelayo Acevedo/ University of Castilla-La Mancha, IREC	D. Vafeidis, A. Exadactylos/ University of Thessaly	C. Billinis, N. Papadopoulos/ University of Thessaly
Invited speaker		Thijs Kuiken	…	…
Speakers	Dr Tony Sainsbury, ZSL Dr Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins Murdoch University, Australia Dr Jenny Jaffe, ZSL (Further speakers to be confirmed	Gudrun Wibbelt, Ursula Hofle	Dr. Sasan Fereidouni Prof. Chris Walzer, Prof. Richard Kock and Julian Keles Dr. Annika Posautz	Ana Valente, Jose Angel Barasona, and Pablo Palencia	C. Antoniadou, A. Lolas, G.Karamitros, G. Gkafas	Periklis Birtsas, Konstantinos Papaspyropoulos, Christos Sokos, Alexios Giannakopoulos, Charalampos Ioannou, George Mastronikolos, Thomas Kilindris, Georgia Delivasi, Ioannis Vergos, Dimitris Michalakis
Duration	4 hours (09:00-13:00)	9 hours (9:00-17:00)	4 hours (10:00-14:00)	5 hours (09:00-14:00)	8 hours (10:00-18:00)	9,5 hours (08:30-18:00)
Location	Larissa – conference venue/ indoors	Larissa – conference venue/ indoors	Larissa – conference venue/ indoors	Larissa – conference venue/ indoors	Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, Un. Thessaly, Volos & visit to the sea / in and outdoors	Larissa – conference venue & visit to Lake Karla/ in and outdoors
other information		call for case submissions			transportation to Volos included	transportation to Lake Karla included
no. of participants	30	50	40	20	50	45
Coffee break (Yes/No)	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Light lunch (Yes/No)	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Fee (Euro)	50	100	50	60	80	100
Student fee (Euro)	35	75	35	40	60	75

NOTIFICATION OF ABSTRACT ACCEPTANCE is now completed.

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We would like to thank all those who submitted their abstracts for the EWDA 2018 Conference.

The Scientific Committee has completed the evaluation and authors have received notification of acceptance.

So, we are happy to announce that:

89 abstracts have been accepted for oral presentation.

111 abstracts have been accepted for poster presentation.

Join us in the 13^th EWDA Conference in Greece this summer to attend the above amazing presentations!

Do not forget to early register by the 5^th of June!

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE (New Date: 31st of May) & EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINES (New Date: 5th of June) ARE CHANGED!!!

ychlop 04/05/2018

We would like to thank all those who submitted their abstracts for the EWDA 2018 Conference. Due to the huge workload, the Scientific Committee will need some more time to evaluate the abstracts and select those for the oral presentations and the posters.

So, we announce that new deadlines are set as below:

Authors will get notification of acceptance by the 31^st of May.
Early registration deadline is accordingly moved to the 5^th of June.

You can register online https://ewda2018.vet.uth.gr/2017/12/07/registration/

We will be happy to meet you during the 13th European Wildlife Disease Association Conference.

Thank you for your interest in our Conference.

Kind regards,

Charalambos Billinis
Chair of Organizing Committee
13th EWDA Conference

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE (New Date: 31st of May) & EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINES (New Date: 5th of June) ARE CHANGED!!!

ychlop 04/05/2018

So, we announce that new deadlines are set as below:

Authors will get notification of acceptance by the 31^st of May.
Early registration deadline is accordingly moved to the 5^th of June.

You can register online https://ewda2018.vet.uth.gr/2017/12/07/registration/

We will be happy to meet you during the 13th European Wildlife Disease Association Conference.

Thank you for your interest in our Conference.

Kind regards,

Charalambos Billinis
Chair of Organizing Committee
13th EWDA Conference

New extension for the abstract submission deadline – April 27, 2018!!

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION

We would like to thank all those who submitted their abstracts for the EWDA 2018 Conference.

However, there were many of you that requested some more time. So, we are in the pleasant position to announce that there is a New Deadline for the EWDA 2018 Conference Abstract Submission, until Friday, April 27, 2018.

Do not miss the last opportunity to submit your abstracts for Oral and/or Poster Presentations related with “Wildlife Health and Conservation: Expectations in a challenging era”.

You can submit your abstract online and also find more information on the abstract submission process and guidelines here: https://ewda2018.vet.uth.gr/abstract-submission/

Authors will get notification of acceptance by May 5, as previously announced (date may be subject to changes)

Early registration: May 15, 2018 (date may be subject to changes)

13th EWDA Conference Attendance Grants for students

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PURPOSE

The 13^th EWDA Conference Organizing Committee decided to provide a small grant to students of limited financial means to attend the Conference. The purpose of this action is to support students who are interested to attend and present their work, but find it hard to cover all the expenses by themselves.

GUIDELINES

Eligible students:

Applicants should meet the following criteria:

be an EWDA member prior to submitting their application
wish to give a presentation at the conference (oral or poster)
are not financed by other resources

Four (4) students will be selected.

Eligible expenses:

The student conference attendance grant is intended to cover the registration fee (215 euro – early registration fee for student EWDA members).

APPLICATION

Applicants should send a letter of intent with a CV to:

-13^th EWDA Conference Organizing Committee (ewda2018@uth.gr) and

-Lineke Begeman (lbegeman@gmail.com), member of the EWDA Board, responsible for “Student Activities”.

The letter of intent should include:

who you are
country and city of residence
at which university you study, and in which year you are
for how long you have been an EWDA Member
why it is important for you to attend the conference
a statement that you are not financed by other resources
the title of the abstract submitted
a realistic budget for your travel costs

Any questions regarding the application procedure can be sent by e-mail to lbegeman@gmail.com.

(NEW) DEADLINES

- April 30th: Deadline for applications
- May7th: Organizing Committee completes evaluation of applications submitted
- May 8th: Grants beneficiaries announced
- May 15th: Early registration closes

13th EWDA Conference August 27 – 31, 2018 Larissa, Thessaly, Greece

ychlop 24/12/2017

Dear colleagues,
The 13th EWDA Conference is on its way. On behalf of the Organizing Committee allow me to express our confidence that it’s going to be a really fantastic event!

But first things first… I would like to remind you that the Conference will be held on August 27 to 31, 2018 in Larissa, Thessaly, Greece and will be hosted by the University of Thessaly. The EWDA Wildlife Health Surveillance Network meeting (August 26th) and the annual meeting of ECZM (August 26 -27, 2018) will take place in parallel. The title of the Conference has been defined as “Wildlife health and conservation: expectations in a challenging era” in our effort to focus on the changing environment and the need to promote disease and conservation management in a more effective manner.

Further, we are proud to announce the members of our Scientific Committee, who are all famous in their fields and needless to say how kind they also are, as they are willing to help with the huge workload to come: Charalambos Billinis, Periklis Birtsas, Ezzio Ferroglio, Christian Gortázar Schmidt, Mike Hutchings, Richard Kock, Thijs Kuiken, Becki Lawson, Miriam Maas, Zissis Mamuris, Aleksija Neimane, Orusa Riccardo, Marie-Pierre Ryser Degiorgis, Ursula Siebert, Vassiliki Spyrou, Morten Tryland.

Abstract submissions will be open on the 1st of February and the deadline will be the 31th of March (New Date: April 20, 2018). We will be more than happy to see you presenting your latest work at our conference. So, we are looking forward to receiving your abstracts. Early bird registration will also be open on the 1st of February, while the deadline will be the 15th of May.

Charalambos Billinis Professor Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Thessaly

Various sessions and workshops are now being formulated. Besides the scientific program, we have planned for you an excursion to Meteora, which is a majestic World Heritage UNESCO site and a post conference tour (September 1st) to the island of Alonissos, which will give you an amazing opportunity to dive into the Aegean Sea famous blue waters and watch monk seals and wild birds during their migration period.

For the months to follow, you are kindly invited to visit our website EWDA2018.vet.uth.gr to watch our latest news. You can also find us on Facebook, please do not forget to Like our page “EWDA Conference 2018”. We are really excited and working on how to make the conference an unforgettable experience… But that will only happen if you will be there with us. Looking forward to meeting youat the 13th EWDA Conference,
August 27-31, Larissa, Greece.

Venue

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The Conference will take place at the premises of University of Thessaly in Larissa. In particular, the Auditorium Hippocrates, the Auditoriums 1 & 2 and the 4 Classrooms of the Faculty of Medicine will be used for our various sessions and the workshops. The Faculty of Medicine is located at the new buildings of the University Campus, in Viopolis, Mezourlo, Larissa.

ADDRESS

3, Panepistimiou Str.

Viopolis, 41500, Larissa

tel. 0030 2410 685745

E-MAIL: ewda2018@uth.gr

Registration

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Registration opens – February 01, 2018

(Money transfer/bank commission charges not included.)

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION (deadline 5^th of June)
MEMBERS	420€	Conference material Coffee breaks Daily lunch Welcome dinner Scheduled excursion Auction event incl. dinner Student-Mentor- Mixer Party
STUDENT MEMBERS	215€
NON-MEMBERS	530€
STUDENT NON-MEMBERS	275€
ACCOMPANYING PERSON	150€	Daily lunch Welcome dinner Scheduled excursion Auction event incl. dinner Student-Mentor- Mixer Party
ONE-DAY REGISTRATION only for August 28 (available only to the ECZM members who want to attend and won’t be at the presentations list)	150€	Conference material Coffee breaks Lunch Welcome dinner

Early registration ends – June 5, 2018

LATE REGISTRATION (6^th of June – 10^th of August)
MEMBERS	510€	Conference material Coffee breaks Daily lunch Welcome dinner Scheduled excursion Auction event incl. dinner Student-Mentor- Mixer Party
STUDENT MEMBERS	275€
NON-MEMBERS	620€
STUDENT NON-MEMBERS	335€
ACCOMPANYING PERSON	210€	Daily lunch Welcome dinner Scheduled excursion Auction event incl. dinner Student-Mentor- Mixer Party
ONE-DAY REGISTRATION only for August 28 (available only to the ECZM members who want to attend and won’t be at the presentations list)	210€	Conference material Coffee breaks Lunch Welcome dinner

Registration closes – August 10, 2018

PLEASE NOTE:

After registration deadline ends, registration will be possible on site.

CANCELLATION POLICY

Any cancellation of registration must be sent to ewda2018@uth.gr

Cancellations will be subject to the following conditions:

Registrations cancelled more than 60 days before the event will be refunded 65% of the registration fees.
Registrations cancelled less than 60 days before the event will not be eligible for a refund.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES:

The deadline for application for the EWDA CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE FUND has exceptionally been extended to March 17th.
Applications for EWDA CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE FUND accepted until February 28, 2018.For more information, please visit the EWDA website
13th EWDA Conference Attendance Grants for students

NEW DEADLINES

Following the extension to the deadline of abstract submissions, we decided to extend the deadline for applications for the students’ grants too, in order to allow students make their applications after having submitting their abstracts.

April 30th: Deadline for applications
May 7th: Organizing Committee completes evaluation of applications submitted
May 8th: Grants beneficiaries announced
June 5th: Early registration closes