The IAHS Sivapalan Young Scientists Travel Awards (SYSTA) initiative was launched in 2018 and is an annual award. The aims of SYSTA are to: (1) strengthen attendance of IAHS Meetings from financially disadvantaged countries (FDCs) to address the currently low attendance; and (2) foster high quality science among a new generation of hydrologists.
In early 2020, IAHS were pleased to award 9 SYSTA awards for attendance across three IAHS meetings in 2020 up to the maximum award value of €2,000.
Unfortunately due to travel restrictions as a result of the global pandemic all of these meetings were postponed or cancelled. The 2020 awardees will all be able to transfer their award to future IAHS Commission meetings or the IAHS 2022 Scientific Assembly in Montpellier, France.
The awardees for 2020 are as follows:
| IWRM, Cairns, Australia, July 2020 | |
| Mohammad MERHEB | Lebanon |
| Charles ONYUTHA | Uganda |
| STAHY, Valencia, Spain, September 2020 | |
| Ahmed Mohammed Sami AL-JANABI | Iraq |
| Mostafa Moradi DASHTPAGERDI | Iran |
| Akinwale Temitope OGUNRINDE | Nigeria |
| Sankaran ADARSH | India |
| 4th International Conference of the Great Rivers of Africa, November 2020 | |
| Issoufou OUEDRAOGO | Burkina Faso |
| Somiyabalo PILABINA | Togo |
| Affoué Berthe YAO | Côte d’Ivoire |
Our congratulations go to all the awardees and we look forward to meeting them at a future IAHS meeting.