For six days, Sabadell will be full of paleontologists from around the world participating in oral communications, workshops, poster presentations, roundtables and field trips organized on the occasion of the annual meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP), an entity founded in 2003 to promote vertebrate paleontology in Europe. The EAVP holds its conference in a different European country every year, and during the last edition, held in Benevento (Italy), Sabadell was chosen as the venue for the 20th edition.

In this edition more than 230 researchers have been registered, surpassing the attendance of previous EAVP conferences. The meeting program is organized into blocks: from Wednesday 28th to Friday 30th there will be 60 oral presentations by vertebrate paleontologists with different specialties and 150 poster presentations. In total, the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) researchers coauthor up to 58 oral or poster communications. 

Monday, June 26th, and Saturday, July 1st, are dedicated to field trips, where participants will visit various fossil sites in Catalonia, including the Vallès-Penedès area, internationally recognized for its Miocene sites. On Tuesday, June 27th, practical workshops on different issues such as fossil photography and graphic design have been scheduled, as well as a roundtable discussion on women in paleontology. An icebreaker meeting will take place on the evening of Tuesday 27th.

The abstract book and field trip guides of the EAVP 2023 conference have published in the journal Paleovertebrata. 

The ICP is responsible for organizing the EAVP 2023 in Sabadell, which will be held at the Espai Cultura Fundació 1859 and at the ICP Museum. The organization of the event is sponsored by local institutions and companies such as the Sabadell City Council, Fundació 1859 Caixa Sabadell, Cafès Pont, Hotel Catalonia, La Microcerveseria, as well as CERCA (Research Centers of Catalonia), the scientific journal PeerJ, and the company Transmitting Science.

EAVP meeting website: https://eavp2023.icp.cat/