Last update: May 18, 2020

IAVCEI-LOC-CaV-CONVIN Meeting for COV11

The status of the 11th Cities and Volcanoes (COV11) Conference, postponed to September 25-30, has been regularly evaluated over the past weeks according to the updated evolution of the Covid19 crisis.

On May 13 a new evaluation was made during a video-meeting connecting the IAVCEI President and Secretary General (Patrick Allard and Roberto Sulpizio), the President of the Local Organizing Committee (Paraskevi Nomikou), members of the IAVCEI Commission Cities and Volcanoes (Carolyn Driedger, Danielle Charlton, Leonard Graham and Natalie Deligne), and the CONVIN Professional Congress Organizer (Antonia Alexandrou, Epameinondas Gaveras, Georgia Menti, Georgia Kateriniou and Alkis Polyrakis).

At present we still keep on with holding the conference in Crete on September 25-30, 2020. But we are also working on alternative options if needed, since the health and wellbeing of COV11 participants is our highest priority. Final decisions will be taken by the end of June. In the meantime a survey will be sent to all delegates, authors and conveners in order to get a better view of their thoughts and plans. Filling this questionnaire will take them only a few minutes.

Be sure that we are carefully monitoring the evolution of the global situation to decide on the physical feasibility of COV11 in next September.

Stay safe, stay tuned and visit our website for more updates.

 Last update: April 29, 2020

Dear participants to the COV11, dear colleagues,

Following our previous communications, we promised to keep you apprised of all recent developments concerning COV11. 

As of beginning of May, measures seem to gradually be loosen and we keep on evaluating all the parameters of the global and local situation due to COVID 19, which seems to be more accurate by end of May, beginning of June. 

Rest assured that we are continuing our efforts to bring to you a high-standard scientific event, whilst ensuring that the health and wellbeing of participants is of highest importance. 

Stay Safe !!!

Best regards,

Paraskevi Nomikou | CoV11 President

Patrick Allard | IAVCEI President

Roberto Sulpizio | IAVCEI General Secretary

Last update: April 1, 2020

Dear participants to the COV11, dear colleagues,

We hope that you and your beloved ones are safe and well in these especially hard times. We are facing an unprecedented international crisis that has been raising great uncertainties in project our immediate future.

In previous communications we promised you a periodic and timely information about our actions for the organization of the postponed COV11. We are daily watching the evolving situation of the epidemics in Greece, whole Europe and worldwide, and regularly update our plans in order to guarantee both a safe and well attended COV11 in Crete.

At present, we still keep on with holding the meeting in the period of September 25-30, 2020. We work on options for a re-opening of the procedure for registration to the meeting, the workshops and the field trips at a reasonable deadline that we'll communicate you in due time.

Obviously, we all are strongly dependent on the evolution of the crisis, and we'll take actions accordingly.

Best regards,

Paraskevi Nomikou - CoV11 President

Patrick Allard - IAVCEI President

Roberto Sulpizio - IAVCEI General Secretary