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The international presence of Ecodevelopment

The international presence of Ecodevelopment in the post-Covid era (2021-2025) is impressive. A total of 10 executives have travelled to 8 different destinations within Europe (33 individual trips) and two executives have made/will make speeches in 12 destinations outside Europe. This extroversion of the company relates on the one hand to its constant focus on the transfer of know-how and experience to its executives, and on the other hand to its response to a series of invitations for speeches and presentations at important events in and outside Europe.

A constant reference of the extroversion of Eco-development are the two main events of the European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA): Every two years the international conferences organised by EMCA (such as in 2021 in Vienna, 2023 in Palma de MALLORCA and 2025 in Antwerp) and the training workshops organised by EMCA on a biennial basis, firmly in Mendrisio, Switzerland (such as in 2022 on good mosquito control practices in Europe and in 2024 on communication).

The actions carried out/planned for 2016-2025 outside Europe are:

2016:

  • 47th annual conference of SOVE (SOciety for Vector Ecology). Anchorage, Alaska. September 2016.

Mourelatos S., Kalaitzopoulou S. and Gewehr S. 2016. Control of mosquitoes transmitting Malaria and West Nile Virus in Greece 2010-2016.

2018:

Mourelatos S. 2018. Τhe role of precision farming in high quality olive oil production. (Oral presentation)

  • 48th Annual SOVE Conference, 07-11/10/2018, Yosemite, California, USA

Mourelatos S. and Gewehr S. 2018. Nuisance and vector control in Greece: the past and the future. (Oral presentation)

2019:

  • Inaugural Conference SOVE Indian Region, 13-16/02/2019, Goa, India.

Mourelatos S, Kalaitzopoulou S, Gewehr S. 2019. Big data and drones in Mosquito Control. (Oral presentation)

  • Latin America SOVE Conference, 20-24/11/2019, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.

Mourelatos S. 2019. Operational use of Artificial Intelligence in wide area mosquito control in Greece. (Oral presentation)

2024:

  • 19th Annual Arbovirus Surveillance & Mosquito Control Workshop, St Augustine, Florida, USA, 26-28 March 2024.

Gewehr S. 2024. Mosquito control in Europe: The role of the European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA). (Invited Speaker – Oral presentation)

  • CariVecNet Preconference Meeting at Castries, St Lucia, Caribbean, 25 April 2024

Mourelatos S. 2024. Management of Malaria Resurgence in Greece. Side event on malaria elimination: Tackling hard-to-reach populations and preventing resurgence in malaria-free countries (Invited Speaker – Oral presentation)

2025:

  • 91st Annual AMCA Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 03-07 March 2025

Gewehr S., 2025. Integrated Mosquito Management (IMM) in Europe and the role of the European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA). (Oral Presentation)

  • 8th International Conference on Advanced Algorithms and Control Engineering (ICAACE 2025), March 21-23, Shanghai, China.

Tsagaris A., Mourelatos S., (2025), “Mosquito Electronic Counting Device”,

  • 9th International Forum for Surveillance and Control of Mosquito and Vector-borne Diseases, XiAn, Shannxi, China, May 25-30, 2025

Mourelatos S. 2025. “The use of big data and AI in mosquito control in Europe: the case study of Greece”. (Oral presentation)

  • Working meeting in Debug Singapore Production Factory (Google), 10 June 2025, Singapore

Mourelatos Spiros

  • National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) Annual Educational Conference July 14 – 17, 2025, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Mourelatos S. 2025. “AI tools for wide-area mosquito control”. (Oral Presentation)

 

The outreach actions (mainly scientific communications) that have been implemented for 2021-2025 within Europe are:

2021:

  • Xth EMCA Conference 3-7 October 2021, Vienna, Austria (4 scientists)
    1. Kelemenis N., Perros N., Iatrou G., Iordanidis K., Gewehr S., Mourelatos S. 2021. Operational use of UAVs in mosquito control.
    2. Gewehr S., Giannakis V., Klaitzopoulou S., Tseni X., Mourelatos S. 2021. Practical aspects of mosquito control in the urban environment. Oral presentation at the 10th International EMCA conference, 3-7 October 2021, Vienna, Austria.
    3. Kalaitzopoulou S., Lazos N., Perros N., Mourelatos S. 2021. The ‘ebite’ electronic platform for the management of wide-area mosquito control projects
    4. Mourelatos S., Kalaitzopoulou S., Tseni X., Iatrou M., Pitsiorlas I., Karydas C., Gewehr S. 2021. Decision making for mosquito control: the suite of operational tools of Ecodevelopment.

2022:

  • 22th E-SOVE conference, 11-14 October, Sofia, Bulgaria (3 scientists)
    1. Perros N., Gewehr S., Kalaitzopoulou S., Tseni X., Iatrou M., Pegiadis I., Mourelatos S. 2022. An update on short-term forecasting for larvae and adult mosquito abundances and epidemiological risk in wide-area mosquito control programs.
    2. Gewehr S., Iatrou M., Kaaitzopoulou S., Tseni X., Pegiadis I., Kartsios S., Karypidou M.C., Katragkou E., Mourelatos S. 2022. Mosquito Vision: An interactive application for the prediction of mosquito nuisance for citizens.
  • 10th EMCA Workshop 28-29 November, Mendrisio, Switzerland (8 scientists)
    1. Gewehr S. 2022. Update about the organization of Mosquito Control throughout Europe.
    2. Mourelatos S. 2022. The use of operational modelling in wide area mosquito control.
    3. Gewehr S., Tsaprailis K., Vallianatos D., Tseni X., Iatrou M., Angelou A., Tsouni A., Koureas Μ., Charvalis G., Herekakis T., Deligiannis I., Kaskara M., Kontoes C., Kioutsioukis I., Mourelatos S. 2022. Experience from the use of a web-based platform for the preparedness for and response to West Nile Virus outbreaks in Greece. (Poster presentation)

2023:

  • Final AIM COST conference 1-2 February 2023, Rome, Italy (1 scientist)

Gewehr S. 2023. Harmonisation of health policies concerning mosquito-borne diseases in Europe: where we stand. (Oral presentation)

  • 11th International EMCA Conference 7-10 November, Palma, Spain. (4 scientists)
    1. Kalaitzopoulou S., Tseni X., Iatrou M., Lazos N., Perros N., Gewehr S. and Mourelatos S. 2023. The value of data collection and processing in mosquito control projects.
    2. Perros N., Kalaitzopoulou S., Gewehr S. and Mourelatos S. 2023. Achieving operational effectiveness on a regional scale: challenges and solutions of Western Greece’s project.

2024:

  • High-level conference on “Research perspectives on the health impacts of climate change”,  European Commission. 19-20 February 2024. Charlemagne Building, Brussels, Belgium. (1 scientist)

Mourelatos S. “Climate change and infectious diseases” (invited panelist)

  • Bilateral meeting, Heidelberg University, CSIDlab/Eco-development, 13-14 May 2024 (3 scientists)

Brezas A., Gewehr S., Mourelatos S. 2024. Ecodevelopment Models: Mosquito adults & larvae

  • ‘Europe United Against Old and New Pandemics’ EU conference, 14-15 May 2024 Antwerp, Belgium. (1 scientist)

Gewehr S. 2024. Pandemic preparedness and outbreak response: Research needs from the vector control operators’ perspective (invited speaker)

  • E-Sove Conference 2024, 14-17 October 2024, Montpellier, France (1 scientist)

Gewehr S., Mourelatos S. et al. Guidelines for Mosquito Control in Built-Up Areas in Europe (Poster presentation)

  • XI EMCA Workshop “Dialogue with wings: communicating mosquito science effectively”, 02-04 December 2024. Mendrisio Switzerland (6 company executives)

Basiouri Z., Gewehr S., Kalaitzopoulou S., Perros N., Lazos N., Vlachos G., Mourelatos S. 2024. Effective Communication Strategies for wide area Mosquito Control Programmes.

2025:

  • 12th International EMCA Conference 25-28 March, Antwerp, Belgium. (3 scientists)
    1. Perros N., Gewehr S., Kalaitzopoulou S., Mourelatos S. 2025, A novel methodology for assessing “effectiveness” and “efficacy” of mosquito control operations in the era of big Data.
    2. Gewehr S., Iatrou M., Tseni X., Kalaitzopoulou S., Pegiadis J., Karydas C., Mourelatos S.. 2025. Prediction of larvae abundance using machine learning (ML) for wide-area mosquito control.

 

Note: With bold the scientist making the announcement