Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025
The 2025 Eu-SPRI Annual Conference will be hosted by the Social Research Center at TU Dortmund University in Dortmund, Germany, in collaboration with other groups within the university. The main conference will take place on 11 to 13 June 2025, with a preceding Early Career Event on 10 June.
Under the conference theme ‘Shaping Societal Futures with STI Policies’ (more information about the theme can be found here: https://euspri2025.de/) the organising committee is now welcoming academic researchers from a broad range of disciplines, as well as STI policymakers, to submit proposals for paper and poster presentations. Submissions related to other topics around science, technology, and innovation policy (broadly defined) are also welcome.
Papers and posters for the conference will be prepared in a two-step process, with abstract submissions invited in the first step, and papers/extended abstract or posters invited in the second step.
Before finalising and uploading your submission on the conference platform, please read the following guidelines carefully.
CALL FOR PAPERS – GENERAL GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit an abstract by 31 January 2025 to one of the thematic conference tracks or to the open track, which will then be peer-reviewed. If the abstract is accepted, authors are required to submit their final paper/extended abstract or poster by 18 May 2025.
Abstract submission process
All submissions will be managed using the conference platform. Author(s) must insert a 600-1200 word abstract that contains specific information (as detailed below) into the submission form on the conference platform. During that submission, authors will be able to add information related to their submission, including all author(s) details, selection of the presenting and corresponding author, the preferred format of their presentation, and the selected track that best relates to their submission.
Presentation format
We ask authors to select a presentation mode from two formats:
• paper presentations
• poster presentations.
The organisers will make every effort to accommodate your preferred format on the programme, however, please note that final confirmation of the format of your presentation is subject to capacity and there is a chance that you will be asked to present in a different format.
Presenting author
Please note that authors are expected to present no more than one submission at the conference, although an author may complete more than one submission as co-author.
Multiple submissions
If you wish to submit several abstracts, each submission will need to be completed separately.
Abstract review
Abstracts will be evaluated through a review process by members of the conference’s organising committee as well as the track and session coordinators. The conference organising committee expects that authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 28 February 2025. Please kindly note that the decisions of the conference organising committee are final.
Final submission
Inclusion in the programme of your final paper/extended abstract or poster is subject to:
1. uploading a final submission by 18 May 2025, 23:59 CEST, and
2. at least one author registering for the conference by 13 April 2025, 23:59 CEST.
OUR CONFERENCE PAPER SUBMISSION SYSTEM
Abstract submissions are now open! To submit your abstract, please create a free account and submit your abstract by following the abstract submission link.
We will be regularly updating the Eu-SPRI 2025 conference platform with further information, so please stay tuned.
When submitting your abstract via the conference platform, you will be prompted to select or add information that relates to your submission. Please ensure you complete each step in order for your submission to be concluded.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
1. Abstracts should be submitted via the abstract submission link in the input box provided.
2. Authors should prepare abstracts of no longer than 600-1200 words (including references)
3. Author(s) will be asked to provide the following information in the online form:
1. Title of submission
2. Title of your preferred special session or track (or if none – choose open track)
3. List of co-authors
4. Abstracts should include the following aspects:
1. Keywords
2. Clear research question
3. Conceptual literature
4. Methods (if applicable)
5. (Expected) results
6. Conclusions
7. Policy implications (optional)
Please note that no author information should appear within the abstract for review.
Abstract format
All authors are asked to express a preference regarding the presentation format from these
presentation formats:
• Paper presentation
• Fully designed poster presentation (for a poster session)
All authors will be asked to submit an abstract of 600 to 1200 words for this first stage,
irrespective of the presentation format selected.
Conference topic
Authors are invited to submit their abstract to one of the conference tracks (you find them
under: https://euspri2025.de/index.php/callforpapers/#topicoverview on the conference
platform).
You may select from two suggested Topic groups:
• Tracks of sessions organised by scholars in the field (Thematic tracks), or
• Open Track option.
Under the ‘Open Track’, we invite submissions from a wider thematic sphere that do not fall under any of the Topics suggested by the thematic tracks. The organisers will create ad-hoc thematic tracks for accepted submissions in the Open Track.
Keywords
When submitting your abstract, please add up to 3 keywords that best describe your submission. Please use a semi-colon (;) to delimit your selected keywords and/or short phrases.
