Dear locators,

Please find a new EWGLA newsletter, following the meeting in Edinburgh. Note that we have two important calls, for the election of a new member in the EWGLA coordination board and the organization of a EURO winter school.

The coordination board

----------------------------------------------------------------- *EWGLA XXIV, Edinburgh, 23-25 May 2018* -----------------------------------------------------------------

The EWGLA XXIV meeting was held in Edinburgh, (perfectly) organised by Sergio Garcia and Jörg Kalcsics. The meeting was attended by 78 persons, coming from 18 countries. - plenary session by Stein Wallace and Andrea Lodi - 53 scientific talks - Four young researchers received grants from EWGLA in order to cover their travel and accomodation expenses. They did a very nice

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Election of the 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, we started a transition phase, during which the current coordination board will progressively be replaced by three members. - Sergio Garcia left after EWGLA XXIV (Thanks a lot to him for serving the working group for 3 years) - Olivier Péton will leave after EWGLA XXV. - Jörg Kalcsics will leave after the joint ISOLDE 2020 / EWGLA XXVI meeting.

Thus, we call for new volunteers to join the coordination board. According to the new rules,  only one member can be elected in 2018 and this person cannot come from France nor UK.

Candidates are required to send an email to ewgla-board@euro-online.org mailto:ewgla-board@euro-online.org by *June 25, 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 and the result will be announced in July.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *ORGANISING A EURO WINTER SCHOOL on FACILITY LOCATION* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The last EWI dedicated to facility location was held in Estoril (Portugal) in 2007. This has been a great opportunity for young researchers to get high level courses on facility location, to present their current research and to extend theur professional network.

During the last EWGLA session, a large majority of participants agreed that organising a future EWI on facility location would be a great idea. A traditional approach is that participants to the 2007 EURO winter school are supposed to organise the next winter school on the same topic. It would be great to have volunteers in this group. All EWGLA members can also contribute in the new project. We will soon open a separate discussion forum, please contact the coordination board if you are interested.

------------------------------------------------------------- *CONFERENCES ANNOUNCEMENT* ------------------------------------------------------ - EURO 2018 : Valencia, July 8-11. 8 location related sessions organised by EWGLA. - EWGLA XXV, Brussels, June 5-7 2019 (Lieselot Vanhaverbeke) - IWUOR, International Workshop in Urban Operations Research, Nanzan University, Japan, August 2-4 2019 (Atsuo Suzuki). - ISOLDE 2020, EWGLA XXVI, Hamburg and the baltic sea (Anita Schöbel).