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<p class="MsoPlainText"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***Apologies for cross-posting.***<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The European Social Simulation Association (<a href="http://www.essa.eu.org/">ESSA</a>) makes its Distinguished Dissertation Award every two years, which is for the best PhD thesis by a student member of ESSA. If you have been or will
be awarded a PhD in social simulation during the period March 2020 to February 2022, and would like your thesis to be considered for the Award by the ESSA Management Committee, please send a PDF of it in English along with your PhD certificate or evidence
that you have passed your viva to Melania Borit (<a href="mailto:melania.borit@uit.no">melania.borit@uit.no</a>) by 20 March 2022. Submissions will be evaluated by the ESSA Management Committee, who reserves the right not to make an award if no suitable theses
are received. The awardee will be announced at the 2022 Social Simulation Conference in Milan, Italy, 12-16 September 2022.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On behalf of the ESSA Management Committee,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Melania.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Melania Borit, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Associate professor,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Leader Research Group
<a href="https://uit.no/research/craft">CRAFT</a> – Knowledge Integration and Blue Futures<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Norwegian College of Fishery Science,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">UiT The Arctic University of Norway (University of Tromsų),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tromsų, Norway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E-mail:
</span><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:melania.borit@uit.no"><span lang="EN-US">melania.borit@uit.no</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/ansatte/person?p_document_id=139029&p_dimension_id=88166"><span lang="EN-US">uit.no/melania.borit</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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