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Resolution of the Call for grants to attend the ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting in

Palma de Mallorca, Spain (4-9 June 2023)

Number of applicants: 9 Number of proposed Grants: 4 (3 students and 1 early career)

Number of accepted Grants: 4 (3 students and 1 early career)

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The evaluation commission will consist of the AIL and SIBECOL secretaries, the AIL and SIBECOL treasurers and the

members representing the Young AIL group in the AIL board, except in case of conflict of interest. In this situation, the

affected evaluator will be replaced by another board member from either AIL or SIBECOL. The decision of the

evaluation commission will be a final judgment without appeal.

The selection of candidates will be based on the following criteria, ranked by importance:

1. Candidates who have not benefited from AIL or SIBECOL grants to attend meetings or courses, up to 5 years

before this call opens (thesis or communication prizes will not be considered).

2. Candidates who are planning to applied for an oral communication.

3. Candidates who have never attended a scientific meeting.

4. Candidates who are unemployed at the time of the application (a document certifying this condition needs to

be submitted together with the application).

5. Candidates with longer membership to AIL and SIBECOL.

6. Candidates with children under 3 years at the time this call opens. Priority will be given to women (following

an AIL study, Sánchez-Montoya et al. 2016), men having benefitted from paternity leave of at least 2 months,

and other situations.

7. Candidates from research groups whose members have not benefited from AIL or SIBECOL grants to attend

meetings or courses, up to 2 years before this call opens (thesis or communication prizes will not be

considered). Research groups will be defined by the Principal Investigator.

8. In case there is a tie, the abstracts will be selected based on their topic (marine, terrestrial or freshwater) to

increase the diversity of selected abstracts.

No more than one grant will be given to the same institution if there are candidates from other institutions that are

not receiving the grant. In this case, and if the candidates from the same institution are tied, their abstracts will be

evaluated based on criteria number 8.

CANDIDATES LIST

The following candidates have been selected for the grants:

Mar Oliva Albert

Juan Rubio Ríos

Lluis Bertrans-Tubau

Edurne Estévez Cano

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Below there is a list with the ordering and selection of the candidates shown based on the criteria established in the call.

Orden Candidato Institución

Meet

requiremen

ts

Pre/Postdoc

ANY

defens

a <4y

1. Beca

AIL- SIBECO

L

últimos

5 años?

2.

Poste

r /

Oral

3.First

Scientific

Meeting

?

4.

Unemployment

5.

Membership

AIL-SIBECOL

6.

Hijos 7. IP Grupo

pre-1 Mar Oliva Albert University of Girona Y predoc No AIL oral Y Y 2022 N Anna Maria Romaní

Cornet

pre-2 Juan Rubio Ríos University of Almería Y predoc No AIL oral N Y 2019 N J. Jesús Casas

pre-3 Lluis Bertrans- Tubau

Universitat de Vic –

Universitat Central de

Catalunya (UVIC-UCC)

Y predoc No AIL oral N N 2020 N Lorenzo Proia

pre-4 Judit Boadella

Romero

University of Girona Y predoc No AIL oral N N 2020 N Anna Maria Romaní

Cornet

pre-5 Carlota Ruiz

Gazulla

Universitat Autònoma de

Barcelona (UAB) & Institute

of Marine

Y predoc No AIL oral N N 2021 N Olga Sánchez (UAB)

and Pep Gasol (ICM)

post-1 Edurne Estévez

Cano

University of Innsbruck Y post Y(2019) No AIL oral N N 2013 N Gabriel Singer

post-2 Ana Génua

Olmedo

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Y post Y(2017) No AIL oral N N 2016 N Nuria Navarro

Andrés

post-3 Jorge Juan

Montes Pérez

University of Málaga Y post Y(2022) No AIL oral N N 2018 N Enrique Moreno

Ostos

post-4 Giulia Gionchetta Eawag Y post Y(2019) AIL oral N N 2016 N Helmut Bürgmann

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OBLIGATIONS OF THE SELECTED CANDIDATES

Before the meeting:

• Inform the AIL secretary about the acceptance of the communication.

• Inform the AIL and SIBECOL secretary about other financial support obtained to cover the meeting registration

fee, in which case the grant would be transferred to the next candidate in the waiting list that fulfils all the

criteria. However, the AIL-SIBECOL grant is compatible with other funding covering the travel and

accommodation expenses related to the meeting attendance.

• Inform the AIL and SIBECOL secretary in case of impossibility to attend the meeting so that the grant can be

transferred to the next candidate in the waiting list that fulfils all the criteria.

During the meeting:

• Acknowledge the grant in the communication (oral or poster) by showing the AIL and SIBECOL logo and

mentioning this call.

• Represent the AIL and SIBECOL in the stand, in case there is one, on the established schedule.

NOTIFICATION AND PAYMENT OF THE GRANTS

• The decision of ranked list of pre-selected candidates to all AIL and SIBECOL members has been made in this

communication.

• Until the meeting, the selected candidates will notify the AIL secretary if other grants incompatible with the

AIL grant have been received.

Romina Álvarez Troncoso

Secretary of the Iberian Association of Limnology

Barcelona, 6th February 2023