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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 member of ESSA. If you have been or will be awarded
a PhD in social simulation during the period March 2022 to February 2024, 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 the 29th of February 2024. 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 2024 Social Simulation Conference, 16-20 September 2024, in Cracow, Poland, where the awardee will be invited to have a presentation of the thesis.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">All the best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Melania.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;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;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor of Knowledge Integration / Methodologies for Interdisciplinary Research<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Leader Research Group
</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://uit.no/research/craft"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">CRAFT</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> – Knowledge
Integration and Blue Futures<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Secretary
</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.essa.eu.org/sig/social-simulation-and-serious-games-sssg/"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">ESSA</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
– European Social Simulation Association<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Co-organizer ESSA SIG
</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cfpm.org_qual2rule_&d=DwMF-g&c=XYzUhXBD2cD-CornpT4QE19xOJBbRy-TBPLK0X9U2o8&r=w1PSIDIqur8dWeLC2EFrXa5HHZkSt95aSBVMksG9YvY&m=tVwRepILk0rdtacEx-m3kE_4SWlxkyX3v6vNTYFpRqc&s=hY2y8Xp6exFdEuIMw-mzDmZXolTFS2wHicJYDC8GK2o&e="><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">Qual2Rule</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;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;color:#1F497D;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;color:#1F497D;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;color:#1F497D;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;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E-mail:
</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:melania.borit@uit.no"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">melania.borit@uit.no</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web:
</span><span style="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" style="font-size:9.0pt">uit.no/melania.borit</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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