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The Congress will be held on the Campus of Álava of the University of the Basque Country. Updated information will be available at the Congress website http://www.euromalacol2011.eu.

Institutional Organizers: - Sociedad Española de Malacología (SEM) - Systematics, Biogeography and Population Dynamics working group of the University of the Basque Country (SBPD-UPV/EHU) - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (MNCN-CSIC)

Supporting European Malacological Societies
- Sociedad Española de Malacología (SEM);
- Société Française de Malacologie
- Società Italiana di Malacologia (SIM)
- Instituto Português de Malacologia
- Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging
- Malacological Society of London
- Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Congress will be opened for all contributions in the field of Malacology. There will be several symposia, including:
- Endangered species and hot-spots of Biodiversity
- Biogeography and Phylogeography of the Mediterranean region and Macaronesia
- Systematics and Taxonomy of Western-Palaearctic Mollusca
- Biology, Reproduction and culture of Molluscs
- Ecology
- Invasive Alien Species
- Miscellaneous

Additional symposium or session proposals are still open