During the Third International Youth Forum on Soil and Water Conservation (3rd IYFSWC), the WASWAC Youth Outstanding Paper Award (DATUM) 2021 was released.

Affected by the epidemic, international travel became impossible. So this ceremony was held both online for overseas participants and in-presence for Iranian attendees. At the beginning of this ceremony, following Dr. Paige Chyu’s introduction on this award, Mr. Wang Yongli, the president of Beijing Datum Technology Development CO., LTD - the financial supporter of the honorioum, expressed that gratitude to the WASWAC for providing exchange platform for young scholars around the world, and that congratulations to the 10 winners of YOPA 2021. Then 10 invited award guests including Prof. Yun Xie, Prof. Ali Talebi, Prof. S. Mohamad Tajbakhsh, Prof. Fei Wang, Prof. Atoollah Kavian, Prof. Miodrag Zlatic, Prof. Jvying Jiao, Prof. Paolo Tarolli, Prof. Xiaoying Liu, and Prof. Duihu Ning announced the awardees and introduced the awarded paper’s highlights briefly. After issuing electronical certificates, 10 awardees expressed their gratitude and excitement in their acceptance speeches. Finally, Prof. Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi made a summary report and gave a closing speech.

Mr. Wang Yougli is Giving Speech

Some Award Guests are Introducing the Winners

Some Winners are Making Acceptance Speeches

Issuing Award on the Spot

The Information on All YOPA (DATUM) Award 2021 Winners

The 10 winners were evaluated by  the award panel from 52 confirmed applicants. The award panel was organized by WASWAC, including 49 members from 18 countries. All their efforts for the award is much appreciated. Following is the member’s name  (listed alphabetically):

Adriana Bruggeman (Cyprus)

Ali Najafinejad (Iran)

Alireza Vaezi (Iran)

Ataollah Kavian (Iran)

Carmelo Dazzi (Italy)

Chiyuan Miao (China)

Chinapat Sukvibool (Thailand)

Claire Baffaut (USA)

Davood Nikkami (Iran)

Deirdre Dragovich (Australia)

Des Walling (UK)

Duihu Ning (China)

Fei Wang (China)

Gema Guzmán (Spain)

Guanghui Zhang (China)

Helena Gomez Macpherson (Spain)

Jean Poesen (Belgium)

Jose AlfonsoGomez (Spain)

Jose Rubio (Spain)

Josef Krecek (CZ)

Julian Dumanski (Canada)

Juying Jiao (China)

Manmohanjit Singh (India)

Mehdi Vafakhah (Iran)

Mike Fullen (UK)

Miodrag Zlatic (Serbia)

Nigussie Haregeweyn (Japan)

Osama Al-Hamdan (USA)

Paulo Tarso S.Oliveira (Brazil)

Paolo Tarolli (Italy)

Pengfei Du  (China)

Qiangguo Cai (China)

Richard Cruse (USA)

Sanjay Arora (India)

Sergey Chalov (Russia)

Seyed Mohammad Tajbakhsh (Iran)

Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi (Iran)

ShuiqingYin (China)

Srinivasulu Ale (USA)

Surinder S. Kukal (India)

Tingwu Lei (China)

Valentin Golosov (Russia)

Velibor Spalevic (Montenegro)

Vito Ferro (Italy)

Xinxiao Yu (China)

Xiangzhou Xu (China)

YongguangZhang (China)

Yun Xie (China)

Zhongbao Xin (China)