16th EUSPR Conference – 24 to 26 September 2025, Berlin, Germany
Abstracts submission deadline extended until 30 April 2025!
We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for EUSPR 2025 opens on 17 March 2025 and will close on 30 April 2025. Outcomes will be sent before the end of our Early Bird registration period, so you will have plenty of time to take advantage of our discounted rates.
PLEASE NOTE that this year, we are using Indico to manage abstract submissions instead of Ex Ordo: https://conference.euspr.org/
IMPORTANT: Please read carefully the guide we have prepared before submitting your abstracts. Please follow it step-by-step according to the type of contribution you are submitting to EUSPR 2025. Abstracts that do not adhere to the proposed structure may be rejected.
Please see “Instructions for abstract submission” here.
We experienced some technical issues over the past two days (14-15 April 2025) with our abstract submission platform. We are happy to let you know that everything has now been resolved. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience and understanding. We invite you to please retry creating your Indico account and to submit your abstract from later today, 15th April.
Our theme this year is ‘The prevention continuum: Implications for research and practice’, referring to a prevention continuum from universal and primary prevention and health promotion to indicated and tertiary prevention. Our keynotes and special sessions will focus on the continuum at the intersection of different areas of prevention, inter- and transdisciplinary prevention practice (e.g., in medicine, education or social work), interdisciplinary prevention science as well as epistemological differences across disciplines, countries, and prevention systems and cultures.
The goal of the conference is to reflect upon diverse definitions and practices of prevention and their implications for their respective fields and prevention systems, connect cutting-edge prevention research with practical needs of practitioners, policymakers, and the public. We also want to discuss how to foster shared learning and improve intersectoral collaboration (e.g., across social and health care systems and administrations) in Europe, with the ultimate goal of achieving stronger links between research, education, and practice. and raising the quality of education and training of prevention scientists and practitioners.
Each abstract should be about 250-300 words and have the following subheadings as a structure: Background, Authors, Methods, Results, Discussion (except for Pre-Conference Workshop proposals). We invite you to prepare and submit abstracts in the following formats:
- Oral Communication | On-site: A formal, research-based 12-minute-long presentation with a focus on high quality prevention research (including methodology, epidemiology, aetiology, intervention outcomes, implementation, evidence-based programmes and policy, etc.). Talks will be followed by a short Q&A session (3 minutes). Usually, oral communications are grouped together in conference sessions of 60 to 90 minutes (4-6 presentations). Presenters must register to the conference.
- Poster | On-site: Research posters summarize information or research concisely and attractively to help publicize it and generate discussion. The poster is usually a mixture of a brief text mixed with tables, graphs, pictures, and other presentation formats. Posters should be in portrait orientation. If your abstract is accepted as an poster, you will receive instructions in a separate email. Presenters must register to the conference.
- Campfire | On-site: A campfire is a less structured form of discussion, where usually one or two presenters talks about their work, an important idea, development or concept for 10-15 minutes each, and then act as their own facilitators, inviting comments, insights, and questions (10-15 minutes) from audience members in the room. Campfire sessions usually last between 30-60 minutes. Please note: Due to limited space at the conference, only few campfire sessions will be accepted, and you might be asked to present as an oral communication or poster instead. Presenters must register to the conference.
- Symposium | On-site: A symposium includes a chair, three to four presenters, and a discussant (optional). Symposia are scheduled in 60 to 90-minute time slots (4-6 presentations) and should allow for discussion among presenters and the audience. PLEASE NOTE: The symposium is submitted as a single abstract by the chair of the symposium. As chair, please provide a tentative title of the symposium, a short, structured abstract (see above) of the entire symposium, as well as the title, authors and abstracts corresponding to each presentation that is supposed to be part of the symposium. Symposium chair, discussant and presenters must register to the conference.
- Pre-Conference Workshop | On-site: A pre-conference workshop will be set on the pre-conference day (Sept. 23). It usually lasts between 3-8 hours, in the morning and/or the afternoon. Therefore, please indicate if your submission refers to a half-day or a full-day workshop. Workshops are quite practical and provide hands-on information and interaction regarding prevention science topics. Each pre-conference workshop includes at least one chair (submitting author). Please also indicate the number of participants that can attend your workshop. Pre-conference workshop facilitators must register to the conference.
The scientific committee will make the final decision to accept or reject submissions.