TUR2025
The 4th international conference on tourmaline.
Antsirabe, Madagascar, 14th to 18th of July, 2025.
Reserve your seat: registerTUR2025@gmail.com
Conference
TUR2025, the 4th international conference on tourmaline, is under preparation in Antsirabe. Located at the heart of Madagascar’s central plateau, this historical city lays at the heart of a busy mining region producing world-renowned tourmaline specimens and a surprising array of common and rare minerals.
Programme
Scholarships
Young scholars and informal researchers are encouraged to apply for partial or total coverage of their participation expenses.
Scholarship funds are partially provided by the conference’s patrons. While TUR2025 recognises its outmost appreciation to its donors, it’s the firm belief of the scientific committee that the support to unsponsored deserving candidates should be even wider. Therefore, the committee decided to use a share of the participants’ fees for further funding.
As a minimum objective, two scholarships (covering all expenses except international travel) will be awarded to the most meritorious international candidates and three scholarships (limited to conference attendance, travel and food, excluding accommodation) will be awarded to national candidates. A wider attendance of paying participants will allow further extension of the scholarship programme.
Applications will be accepted until the end of May, 2025.
Please, submit your request, including curriculum vitae, recommendation letters and relevant research work, to submitTUR2025@gmail.com.
Deadlines and submission
We invite all participants to consider the main deadlines.
Perspective contributors to the TUR2025 are invited to submit their work according to the guidelines below.
Fees, travel, accommodation and food
Madagascar is a colourful, welcoming emerging country. Its allure, scenery and people make all travellers enjoy their visit and easily pass over some environmental challenges.
However, organising a do-it-yourself trip to Madagascar can prove to be a complex exercise.
In the framework of its conference activities, TUR2025 provides participants with full logistical support, including all internal travel, accommodation, field trips. In addition, the organisation also provides a travel agent to co-ordinate international travel.
Beyond the conference activities, additional excursions and travel options are available to participants willing to seize the opportunity of their trip to Madagascar to further dive into the charms of the Country.
Contact and register
For submitting academic contributions and applying for a scholarship: submitTUR2025@gmail.com.
For registering to the conference and for all other queries: registerTUR2025@gmail.com. Please, provide your name*, surname*, academic or professional background* and WhatsApp number (*compulsory). Our secretary will be happy to provide you with additional information and guidance through the registration process.
Perspective participants are encouraged to manifest their interest at their earliest convenience. On the one hand, that will secure their place in the conference and the accommodation of their choice; on the other hand, it will enable the organising committee to organise venues and activities and, most importantly, to allocate the funds for scholarships.
The deadlines for completing the registration and effecting the payment of all fees are available above in Dates – Submission / Deadlines. The organising committee may allow some flexibility, in consideration of the merit and challenges of human endeavours.
For urgent queries or any clarification not deserving an e-mail message, feel free to contact us via WhatsApp on +39 346 642 71 86 .