Dear locators,

On behalf of the EWGLA coordination board, we wish you an optimal or near optimal year 2019.

Here follow some news about your favourite EURO Working Group. Please note that we have two important calls concerning grants for EWGLA XXV participants and the election of a new member in the EWGLA coordination board.

The EWGLA coordinators

*/Bogi, Jörg and Olivier/*

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Deadline extension for EWGLA XXV, Brussels, 23-25 May 2018* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We kindly invite you to the *XXV EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis meeting (EWGLA 2019)* to be held* in Brussels (Belgium) on June 5-7, 2019*.

*The deadline for abstract submission has been extended until January 25th 2019.*

You can find further information regarding the conference at http://www.vub.ac.be/en/events/ewgla2019%C2%A0. Contributions are welcome from academia, industry or the public sector. In addition to presentations, the meeting is intended to be a forum for exchange of recent experiences and results. *Important Dates* Abstract submission deadline: January 15th 2019 *January 25th 2019* Notification of acceptance: March 1st 2019 Early registration: April 15th 2019 Registration deadline: May 15th 2019

-----------------------------------------------------------------* Grants for EWGLA XXV participants* -----------------------------------------------------------------

As in previous EWGLA meeting, we are pleased to announce that EWGLA is again offering a number of grants for participants. These grants will cover your expenses up to a maximum of €750. Eligible expenses are costs for travel & accommodation and the conference fee.

To apply, you have to be a EWGLA member and should send the following documents as a single pdf by e-mail to the EWGLA Board (ewgla-board at euro-online.org https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/):

- An extended abstract of at least two full pages, - Your CV, - A letter of recommendation from your supervisor, if you are a PhD student.

The deadline for applications is *31st January, 2019.* Decisions about grants will be made by 2nd March, 2018.

We especially encourage PhD students and young researchers (no more than 2 years after completing a PhD).  We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your PhD students in case they are not yet members of EWGLA and, of course, encourage them to become EWGLA members! If you have questions about the application or the grant, please do not hesitate to contact us.

*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------** **New web site and registration to EWGLA** **-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*

The EWGLA web page has migrated the the new EURO website, on the space dedicated to working groups. . https://www.euro-online.org/websites/ewgla/

As a consequence, the registration process to all EURO working groups will be centralized. Current EWGLA members are invited to register again in order to access all informations on the EWGLA website (documents, datasets et). Don't worry, even if you don't register immediately, you are still registered to the mailing list and will continue receiving the EWGLA e-mails.

However, we encourage new members to register to EWGLA through the EURO website.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *EWGLA coordination board* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

During the EWGLA session at EWGLA XXIV, we discussed the activity of our EURO Working Group. The main point was the proposal for changing the rules of the coordination board. Here are the rules that were adopted:

/1.The board consists of three members from three different countries.// //2.The mandate of a member starts and ends at a EWGLA meeting.// //3.Each member serves for a span of 4 EWGLA meetings, excluding the one she or he came into office.// //  That is, the mandate of a member coming into office at a EWGLA meeting will end four meetings later.// //4.Only one member at a time is replaced at every EWGLA meeting./

Following this rule*, one new member *will be elected in the coordination board this year, and his/her mandate will start during EWGLA XXV. (According to the rules,  this person cannot come from Hungary nor UK).

Thus, we call for new volunteers to join the coordination board. Candidates are required to send an email to ewgla-board@euro-online.org mailto:ewgla-board@euro-online.org by *May 5th, with their name, affiliation and a bulleted list o**f views and/or ideas about the future of EWGLA*.

The list of candidates will be announced short after. If they are several candidates, registered EWGLA members will be asked to vote during the EWGLA meeting.

------------------------------------------------------------- *  EURO 2019 : Dublin, June 23-26. * ------------------------------------------------------

A full stream is dedicated to "Location Analysis and Optimization". It is currently composed of 6 sessions, but additional sessions can be created on demand.

EWGLA members are cordially invited to submit talks by using the following codes :

Facility location                     9050d038 Hub Location                   1f7e0689 Facility location in supply chains            d2484108 Facility location in transportation networks     0b2af7d7 Facility location and sustainability         9551cb25 Location in the Public Sector and Humanitarian Logistics 3d000a25

They are also invited to propose new sessions or to become chair people of existing sessions.

https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *IWUOR, International Workshop in Urban Operations Research, Nanzan University, Japan, July 19-21 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As announced at EWGLA conference in Edinburgh, International Workshop on Urban Operations Research (IWUOR2019) will be held from July 19 to 21 in 2019. The conference place is Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan.

http://www.ms.nanzan-u.ac.jp/uor/iwuor2019/

/*March 15, 2019 Abstract submission deadline * April 30, 2019 Notice of acceptance May 31, 2019 Early registration deadline July 19-21, IWUOR2019 Please consider the submission of the abstract to attend the workshop ///"The domestic version of the workshop has been held every year and the main point of the workshop is to promote young researchers. ////IWUOR2019 preserves the point. Presentations of the preliminary results of ongoing research of graduate students or young researchers are welcomed. ////We are also planning to have several networking events. You will have a good experience in Nagoya. "/ Atsuo Suzuki/

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*-----------------------------------------------------------** **OTHER CONFERENCES ** **-----------------------------------------------------------*

*-***The */IX/* */International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems/* will take place during January 30 – February 1, 2019 in Cádiz (Spain). This event is organized by the *Spanish Location Network and location group GELOCA (SEIO)*.

*Contact:****iwoloca@uca.es http://redloca.ulpgc.es/redloca18.html mailto:iwoloca@uca.es*

- ISOLDE XV, EWGLA XXVI will be held in Hamburg and Timmendorfer Strand (at the Baltic Sea), Germany on June 14-20, 2020, organized by Anita Schöbel.