CLIMOS was present at the E-SOVE European Society for Vector Ecology 22nd conference, in Sofia, Bulgaria

Vit Dvorak, from Charles University, explained how CLIMOS plans to provide a better understanding of climate and environmental drivers of sand fly borne diseases.

The European Society for Vector Ecology (E-SOVE) is an European branch of the American Society SOVE www.sove.org a nonprofit organization founded in California in1968.

The aim of the E-SOVE is to share knowledge and create a large network among scientists on thematics concerning the ecology and control of arthropods of medical and veterinary importance.

E-SOVE was created in 1986 (Hamburg, Germany) during the International Congress of Entomology among the exhisting SOVE members Dr. Mir Mulla (University of California at Riverside), Dr. Michael Service (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) and Prof. Norbert Becker (Director of the German Mosquito Control Association – KABS).

The first regional meeting took place in Montpellier (France) in September of the same year with Dr. Michael Service as the first European Regional Director (European SOVE-President).

The E-SOVE is formed by a President who is elected every second year, a Secretary Treasurer (Dr Major Dhillon) who is also one of the founder of the SOVE, a Secretary (Miss Valerie Montigny) and an Advisory Board which is formed by 15 world-renowned scientists with large expertise on medical and veterinary entomology http://www.sove.org/European%20SOVE%20folder/aboutesove.html
The current E-SOVE President, Dr Eva Veronesi, has been elected in May 2013 https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eva-veronesi/31/39/2b0.

Among the main tasks of the E-SOVE are the biannual conferences always in European locations.

The Society publishes the biannual Journal of Vector Ecology that contains research and operational papers covering many phases of vector biology, ecology, and control. A periodic newsletter is also available online to all the SOVE and E-SOVE members.