The 2024 IWSG conference will take place in Montpellier, France, from September 20-24th, 2024. We will be welcoming you to join us at Planet Ocean, a complex bringing together an aquarium and a planetarium and fully equipped for conference events.

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For this year’s conference, you will have to book your accommodation by yourself. To aid you in choosing somewhere to stay, please find in the dedicated section a list of possible accommodation venues (non-exhaustive). Please be aware that Montpellier is a busy touristic place, so consider booking your accommodation as early as possible to be sure to find a reasonable price and a nice place at this time of the year.

Please also aim for accommodation in the city centre of Montpellier, as this will ensure you have full access to the vast urban transport network (tram, bus, central station) of Montpellier. The conference venue is well served by public transportation: every 6 minutes by tram line 1 (it takes around 20 minutes to reach the central station).

For security reasons, conference participants are requested not to leave any luggage in the conference venue (Planet Ocean) during the conference (including arrival/departure days), so please plan a stop into your hostel before the welcoming cocktail on Friday and on your last day anticipate arrange to leave your luggage with your hotelier/consignment service.

Final program

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IWSG is an organisation which is committed to diversity and inclusivity. Everyone is welcome to become a member or to join us at our conferences, irrespective of their age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality and socio-economic status.

If you have any questions regarding our annual meetings, please contact us via conference@waderstudygroup.org and iwsg2024@gmail.com.

Location

Planet Ocean Montpellier

We will be welcoming you to join us at Planet Ocean, a complex bringing together an aquarium and a planetarium and fully equipped for conference events. Apart from the rooms provided for conferences, you will be welcomed in the various rooms privatized on occasion: the tropical room (for lunch) and its lagoon (welcome cocktail evening), the planetary dome (Monday day) and the universe room (gala). For those who wish, a free hour to visit the site is scheduled for participants.

Montpellier city and its surroundings

Located in the south of France, on the Mediterranean arc, Montpellier is a city where life is good. The city is famous for its rich architecture, its maze of alleys and small squares with terraces, and its surrounding Mediterranean landscape. Located in the Languedoc, ten kilometres north of the Mediterranean Sea, Montpellier’s surrounding landscape is dominated to the north by the Pic Saint-Loup (656 m), to the west by the hills of the Moure, and extends to the east towards the Petite Camargue. Due to its high diversity of habitats (mediterranean lagunes, scrubland, Causses, cliffs, wine plains, …) the area is ideal for birdwatching. During the post breeding periods, there is an influx of raptors and passerines and there can be impressive sights when waterbirds settle on the surrounding coastal marshes and ponds.

Final program

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