This year there will be elections for the EAVP Board. If you are interested, please fill in the form below. This year the EAVP will also introduce the positions of Diversity Officer and Ethics Officer. The deadline for online application is 7th August 2024

The online application is very helpful but not mandatory. Any eligible member can stand up at the AGM before the voting and present their candidacy. To fill the online forme, please go here: https://eavp.org/board-form.

The available positions are:

1. President; who is the head of the Association and provides direction for the committee.
2. Vice-President; who supports the president in the duties for the Association and replaces the president when required.
3. Treasurer; who administers the budget of the Association.
4. Secretary; who is responsible for the protocols of the meetings in accordance with the President and the running of the Association.
5. Communications Manager; who is responsible for the internet presence and other publications of the Association.
6. Diversity Officer; who promotes and supports a diverse and inclusive culture in both the Association and the scientific research related to it/the scientific research of its members.
7. Ethics Officer; who develops the ethical guidelines expressed in the EAVP statutes and works with the Executive to promote and support ethical scientific research in terms of legislation, publication and open science.
8. Ordinary Board Members; 3 positions.
9. Assessor of the Treasurer; who revises, as auditor, the Treasurer’s annual budget report; 2 positions.

Article 17.5. of the EAVP Statute says: ” Re-election to the office of the Board of Directors is permitted once. The office of treasurer is exempt from the ban on a third term of office.”

If you wish to apply for more than one position, please make a different application for each position.

The Third Circular of the EAVP 2023 is avaible together with the final programme and the abstract book and field trip guides.

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On Sunday, 7 May 2023, an article was published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo – reiterated in Nature (12 May 2023) – indicating that “Ubirajara jubatus“ would finally be repatriated to the Museu do Cariri in Brazil On Sunday 4th June 2023, as per the initial discussions between professors Kellner & Frey in February 2021. The final destination was confirmed after dialogues between the Brazilian Ministries of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and of Foreign Affairs, the German Embassy in Brazil, and the Regional University of Cariri (URCA-CE) (MCTI, 16 May 2023). The EAVP warmly welcomes this news. However, it rejects the dearth of transparency in the whole process, and the lack of active involvement of scientists and museum staff – both from Brazil and Germany – in it. The Association firmly opposes this lack of transparency, which has resulted in misleading and conflicting narratives, adding to the uncertainty around a resolution to this issue.

Over the last few years, the EAVP’s ethics committee has carried out research into this process, contacting people in both countries and confirming that palaeontologists and curators have been excluded from most of it. With this statement, the EAVP calls for the active involvement of researchers and museum workers in all future repatriation processes, following the example of protocols already in place at other institutions.

The EAVP Board

The EAVP is very pleased to announce that PeerJ is again sponsoring two awards to be assigned during the meeting, for Best Poster and Best Talk. Each award winner will be granted a free publication in any PeerJ journal subject to peer review, as well as a feature on the PeerJ blog site to discuss their research.

All student attendees will be eligible for the awards. Winners will be announced during the closing ceremony, on Friday June 30th.

The 2023 call for EAVP Research Grants is now open! There are three grants available, one of which is ringfenced for Ukrainian palaeontologists.

The deadline is the 29th of May 2023 at 12:00 (noon) CET.

Click here for further information and to apply!

EAVP 2023 stands out already for the amount of interest it has attracted: more than 200 contributions were submitted for the meeting!

The Organising Committee thanks all the authors that submitted an abstract. We are currently going through the revision process, but, given the very high number of abstracts received, the date specified for abstract decisions is extended to May 10.

If you are still waiting for information about your abstract, don’t worry: we are working on it!

Abstract submission for EAVP 2023 in Sabadell has now closed, but you can still register at the standard rate until 1st of July.

Visit the meeting website to register…

We look forward to seeing you there!

Abstract submission for EAVP 2023 in Sabadell closes at midnight tomorrow (April 10th)!

Visit the meeting website to register or submit an abstract.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The abstract deadline for EAVP 2023 in Sabadell has been extended to the 10th of April! We look forward to seeing you there!

Early bird registration and Annual Meeting Grant application still closed on March 31st, so are no longer possible this year.

Visit the meeting website to register or submit an abstract.

The second circular for the 2023 meeting is out on the official 2023 meeting website, and you can still submit your abstract until the 31st of March 2023!