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"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives"

Abba Eban

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

The Report of the U.N. Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, 1987

"If there are to be problems, may they come during my life-time so that I can resolve them and give my children the chance of a good life."

Kenyan proverb

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Conference Fee

 

Fee
       
Full conference fee:   550 EUR    
Attendance fee:
(see conditions below) 
  450 EUR    
Reduced conference fee:
(see conditions below) 
  250 EUR    
Special reduced conference fee:
(see conditions below) 
  130 EUR    

Active SAB members:
(see conditions below) 

  450 EUR    
IC SDEWES members:   waived (see conditions below)  
         
Additional fees:        
Accompanying person social programme fee:
(co-authors are not allowed as accompanying persons)
  50 EUR    
Additional paper fee:   100 EUR    
Presentation date selection fee:   50 EUR    
         

Please log in with the information used for submission of abstracts and manuscripts, and follow the "FEE / REGISTRATION" link.

Important:

No show policy: Authors which do not participate in the Conference, or who participate but do not present their paper according to the guidelines, will have their paper canceled and the paper will not be published in the Proceedings and will not be publishable in a special issue of any of the journals. In case of no show fee refund is not possible.

Fee types:

  1. Full conference fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material, the submission and presentation of up to two papers (oral + poster; oral presentation is mandatory). The fee is also used to support the participation of students and participants from developing countries and economies in transition.
  2. Active SAB members – active meaning that SAB members has sent at least 3 invitations to the conference (which have been followed), or has done at lest one review. Additionally, if invitations are accepted SAB members can extra discount
  3. Attendance fee is available to non-presenting co-authors and other participants that are not planning to present any submission. In case that author changes status to presenting, he/she will have to settle the fee difference. Full fee without presentation allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material. The fee is also used to support participation of students and participants from developing countries and economies in transition.
  4. Reduced and special reduced conference fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material, as well as submission and presentation of up to two papers (oral + poster; oral presentation is mandatory).

    Reduced fee application deadline is October 24, 2019. After the deadline, it will not be possible to apply. Approvals of reduced fee applications will begin after that date when applicants will receive a confirmation e-mail. While waiting for the answer, the status of the paper will not change. Failing to settle the fee in due time (November 7, 2019), the reduced fee status would be cancelled, as well as paper would be converted to conference paper.

 

Reduced conference fees policy

Reduced conference fees may be granted to authors only under the following terms:

  • number of granted reduced fees will be limited to 50% of the total received regardless of the deadline
  • it will be granted on the basis first asked, first served
  • to BSc, MSc and PhD students, with proper documentation presented proving the student status
  • to authors from Argentina and countries in transition and development which have GDP/cap of less than 8000 USD in any of the data series published by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

Reduced fee request will have to be made through the fee module in the conference submission system, before relevant deadline.

Special reduced conference fees may be granted to authors only upon request and under the following terms:

  • up to 15 special reduced conference fees (i.e. difference between reduced fee and special reduced fee) are financed by SDEWES Centre, max 1 author per country (additional stipends may be financed by other sponsors)
  • to authors studying/working in countries in transition and development which have GDP/cap of less than 4000 USD in any of the data series published by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita, max 1 author per country
  • to authors studying/working in following countries: HT + HN + BO + GT + SV + PY + GY + BZ + JM + SR + VE, max 1 author per country + PhD students from Argentina

Special reduced fee request will have to be made through the fee module in the conference submission system.
 

Members of IC SDEWES can have their fee waived if they have an active membership for the running year (membership expires on the 31st December) and have not yet used the waiver option at other SDEWES events in the same year.

Membership is non-refundable and non-transferable!

 

The accompanying person fee allows access to the Conference Social programme only. It is not available to co-authors of submitted papers.

Additional papers per presenting author will be allowed for an additional paper fee (additional papers are presented as posters).


Other important information:

Cancellation policy: Cancellations must be received in writing before January 10, 2020 in order to obtain a refund minus a 100 EUR administrative charge. After January 10, 2020 refunds are not available, sorry, no exception. Cancelled papers will not be published in Proceedings and will not be invited in special issue.

Participants that need visa are kindly asked to settle their fee before November 7, 2020, since after that date the time will be too short for visa formalities (see visa page).

Specialised courses participation fee allows access to one of the specialised courses, all the relevant materials, exam and diploma. It may also include ECTS in case the course issues them.

Publishing policy: Only papers presented at the Conference by one of the authors will be published in the Proceedings, which will be delivered to the participants online by April 20, 2020. Book of Abstracts and other Conference material including the application for later downloading online Proceedings, will only be delivered at the Conference venue to the presenting authors. The materials will not be available after the Conference by mail.

Special issue publishing policy: Only papers that corresponding authors nominate, ISC with help of reviewers recommends, presenting author has the conference fee settled by November 29, 2019 (for archival papers) and December 3, 2019 (for conference papers), and have the paper presented at the Conference, may be invited to one of the special issues.



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