ELAVIO 2019 Spain

Posted by: Michael SCHYNS
Date:2019-01-03
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EURO will sponsor up to 4 participants to attend the ELAVIO 2019 School. 
Please see below the Call for Participation (also available at: https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1638/elavio-2019). 
The official languages of the school are: English, Spanish and Portuguese. Talks and lectures will be either of the languages (in all cases with English slides). 
Candidates selected MUST be proficient in both English and Spanish or Portuguese.  
Also please note that the deadline for students to apply to their National Society is 10th January 2019.
Call for Participation in ELAVIO XXIII, Lleida, Spain
July 1 – 5, 2019
EURO is pleased to announce the travel-sponsorship of up to four participants to join the XXIII ELAVIO - Latin- American Summer School in Operations Research. ELAVIO 2019
Participants must be studying in a EURO member country - please see Member Societies.
The ELAVIOs are schools supported by ALIO (the Latin-Iberoamerican Association of Operations Research) and are mainly addressed to young researchers and postgraduate students (both at the PhD and master level) from Latin-Iberoamerican countries. However, Ph.D. students from all over the world with excellent skills and special interest in the areas of Operations Research, Informatics, and Applied Mathematics are also welcome to apply.
ELAVIO XXIII will be held in 2019 in Spain from July 1st to July 5th, in Lleida located between Barcelona (160 km) and Madrid (450 km). Lleida is a Spanish city having the oldest University foundation in Catalonia and the third oldest of Spain. In addition, it is a touristic destination for skiing in the Pyrenees and visiting the Boi Valley hosting an important concentration of Romanic style churches (Humanity heritage recognition). The event will be held at the University of Lleida, in the Cappont Campus, by the river Segre crossing the city.
Registration for ELAVIO XXIII and the Opening Ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 30th at the student’s Residence located in the same Campus where participants will have accommodation. Over the following 5 days, a range of mini-courses and tutorials on advanced topics of specific interest will all be held at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Tourism. Closing Ceremony will take place on Friday afternoon.
Students interested in applying for travel grant must send the following documents (pdf file format) to their National OR Society (contact for ORBEL: [email protected]):
- short curriculum vitae to include evidence of language proficiency in Spanish and English;
- a recommendation letter from an academic of the applicant's university or institute;
- summary (max. 2 pages) of a work to present at the school in case of acceptance.
Important dates:
10/01/2019 deadline for applications to be sent by the students to National OR Society;
31/01/2019 deadline for the National Society to submit the candidates to the IFORS VP;
28/02/2019 - submission of the candidates to ELAVIO organizers;
20/03/2019 - deadline for confirming participation
1-5/07/2019 - ELAVIO XXIII.
The accepted candidates will receive the travel grant from EURO and the accommodation grant from ELAVIO.

EURO will sponsor up to 4 participants to attend the ELAVIO 2019 School. Please see below the Call for Participation (also available at: https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1638/elavio-2019). 


The official languages of the school are: English, Spanish and Portuguese. Talks and lectures will be either of the languages (in all cases with English slides). Candidates selected MUST be proficient in both English and Spanish or Portuguese.  Also please note that the deadline for students to apply to their National Society is 10th January 2019.

Call for Participation in ELAVIO XXIII, Lleida, Spain
July 1 – 5, 2019
EURO is pleased to announce the travel-sponsorship of up to four participants to join the XXIII ELAVIO - Latin- American Summer School in Operations Research. ELAVIO 2019

Participants must be studying in a EURO member country.
The ELAVIOs are schools supported by ALIO (the Latin-Iberoamerican Association of Operations Research) and are mainly addressed to young researchers and postgraduate students (both at the PhD and master level) from Latin-Iberoamerican countries. However, Ph.D. students from all over the world with excellent skills and special interest in the areas of Operations Research, Informatics, and Applied Mathematics are also welcome to apply.
ELAVIO XXIII will be held in 2019 in Spain from July 1st to July 5th, in Lleida located between Barcelona (160 km) and Madrid (450 km). Lleida is a Spanish city having the oldest University foundation in Catalonia and the third oldest of Spain. In addition, it is a touristic destination for skiing in the Pyrenees and visiting the Boi Valley hosting an important concentration of Romanic style churches (Humanity heritage recognition). The event will be held at the University of Lleida, in the Cappont Campus, by the river Segre crossing the city.
Registration for ELAVIO XXIII and the Opening Ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 30th at the student’s Residence located in the same Campus where participants will have accommodation. Over the following 5 days, a range of mini-courses and tutorials on advanced topics of specific interest will all be held at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Tourism. Closing Ceremony will take place on Friday afternoon.

Students interested in applying for travel grant must send the following documents (pdf file format) to their National OR Society (contact for ORBEL: [email protected]):

  • short curriculum vitae to include evidence of language proficiency in Spanish and English;
  • a recommendation letter from an academic of the applicant's university or institute;
  • summary (max. 2 pages) of a work to present at the school in case of acceptance.


Important dates:
10/01/2019 deadline for applications to be sent by the students to National OR Society;
31/01/2019 deadline for the National Society to submit the candidates to the IFORS VP;
28/02/2019 - submission of the candidates to ELAVIO organizers;
20/03/2019 - deadline for confirming participation1-5/07/2019 - ELAVIO XXIII.

The accepted candidates will receive the travel grant from EURO and the accommodation grant from ELAVIO.