We most warmly invite you to submit a research abstract for the plenary sessions and poster presentations. Your contribution must be related to on one of the five subjects of the plenary sessions. If selected by the Scientific Council, you will be invited to present in the respective session. 

In addition, we welcome your submissions for project concepts. We particularly invite you to propose joint projects developed by an interdisciplinary team involving partners from different countries. ECRA is made to encourage, mentor and support applications for funding joint research projects under EU and other programs; it will do so with at least one or two of the joint projects presented at the Conference.

Abstract guidelines

Abstract types

We welcome abstracts of the following two types:

  • Research abstracts, presenting recent scientific work
  • Project concepts, proposing ideas for new collaborative projects in the field of CMT (Fishbowl idea workshop)

Abstract format (fields to be entered in the online form):   

  • Title
  • Author list: please include a list of all your co-authors (incl. presenting author), with full last name, abbreviated first name, and affiliation number in brackets. E.g. V. Timmerman (1), M. Shy (2), ...
  • Affiliations: please include a list of affiliation for all your co-authors. E.g. (1) Research group, Department, Organisation/Institute, Country. (2) ...
  • Abstract text: no predefined headings or format, but with a limit of max. 2000 characters.​​

Additional information

  • All abstracts must be submitted by the presenting author. Each presenting author is allowed to submit max. 1 research abstract and max. 1 project concept.
  • Abstracts can only be submitted through the online form up to the deadline of 1st of August. Upon submission, you will receive a copy of your submitted abstract.

  • All Research abstracts must be part of one of the five predefined categories.
  • By submitting a Research abstract, you agree that your abstract will be published on the conference website and in the (online) abstract book. Project concepts will not be published online.
  • You can select to submit an abstract for an oral presentation or poster presentation. The selection of oral presentations will be based on peer review of the submitted abstracts. Abstract submitters will be informed about their selection in the second half of August 2025.
  • Abstracts will be published on the Conference website and made available to all participants with the abstract-book distributed at the Conference. Abstracts for projects will not be published except in case the author(s) expressly so wish.