37th (2024) – Brazil (Foz de Iguaçu)
SIL 2024 Brazil – Foz de Iguaçu 37th Congress of the International Society of Limnology Our 37th congress will be held in Brazil at the beautiful site Foz de Iguaçu from May 5th to 9th 2024. For updates, please visit the SIL2024 website: https://sil2024.org/
36th (2022) – GERMANY (Berlin)
SIL 100 – the centennial and 36th Congress of SIL –held in Berlin, Germany, from 7 to 10 August 2022, was a great success. Participants entered into personal exchange, the atmosphere was stimulating, facilitated by the positive spirit of the participants, the high quality of contributions in the individual scientific sessions, and interesting presentations by […]
35th (2021) – SOUTH KOREA (Gwangju)
The XXXV SIL Congress was held in Gwangju, Republic of Korea from 22 – 27 August 2018. The 35th Congress of the International Society of Limnology AUGUST 22-27, 2021 held in Gwangju, Republic of Korea was a great success! Its theme Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Healthy Rivers, Lakes and Humans drew over 500 people from more than 50 countries. Over 100 students […]
34th (2018) – CHINA (Nanjing)
The XXXIV SIL Congress was held in Nanjing (Jiangsu Province), China from 19 – 24 August 2018. Network with leaders and peers! SIL Meetings bring together the aquatic scientists from all over the world and offer abundant opportunities to meet and interact with your peers. Contact information: Secretariat of SIL 2018Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy […]
33rd (2016) – ITALY (Torino)
Our Society is an international non‐profit organization dedicated to advancing limnology for the benefit of all. It is with this principle in mind that the congress co‐chairs Cristiana Callieri, Luigi Naselli‐Flores and myself started organizing the 33rd SIL Congress with the goal of producing a scientifically relevant event, taking into account the interdisciplinary nature of […]
32nd (2013) – HUNGARY (Budapest)
The 32nd triennial SIL Congress entitled “Diverse water – Rich life” turned out to be a great success. For five days, from 4th and 9th August 2013, some 460 scientists from 47 countries gathered together at Budapest. The daily deliberations were preceded by plenary talks on subjects of general importance and changing significance. The participants […]
31st (2010) – SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town)
Following a formal bid to host the congress in 2001 during the 28th congress in Melbourne and partial acceptance in 2004 at the 29th congress in Lahti, it was awarded to South Africa in 2007 at the 30th congress in Montreal. Unfortunately several of the initial lobbyists retired or moved to greener pastures, which meant […]
30th (2007) – CANADA (Montreal)
29th (2004) – FINLAND (Lahti)
28th (2001) – AUSTRALIA (Melbourne)