Congress Programme

The Congress outline programme is shown below.

Please note the Programme is subject to change and the organisers reserve the right to amend or withdraw sessions without prior notice.

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Sessions at the XVth World Water Congress

1. Definitions

The Congress is organised into 4 modules per day, each one lasting 1½ hours: two modules in the morning, separated by a coffee break, and two modules in the afternoon separated by a coffee break. The overall congress schedule will be determined by the Local Organising Committee, comprising two types of sessions:

  • Plenary Sessions, to which all the Congress participants are invited
  • Parallel Sessions, in which several events are open to participants at the same time with different presentations taking place.

The Plenary Sessions of the Congress include the opening and closing ceremonies, and thematic plenaries with keynote lectures (including the Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture), poster overview sessions and the Annual General Meeting of the IWRA.

All other sessions are Parallel Sessions. The timing of Parallel Sessions will be allocated to take into account the number of selected presentations for each theme.

A Special Session is a distinct type of parallel session comprising one or two modules with a particular title and content, under the responsibility of a particular institution or consortium of institutions. More details are given in the following section.

A Side Event is an event associated with the Congress with a subject linked to the main topic of the Congress and which will last one or several days. More details are given in a following section.

2. Special Sessions

A Special Session is fully integrated into the Congress programme and is open to every registered Congress participant. It does not require special funding from the Congress.

Participants in the session, including coordinators and speakers, must be fully registered at the Congress. The coordinator has the right to invite participants to the session at his/her own expense, possibly with a specific sponsor. Special sessions will take place within the normal time schedule of the congress, whilst trying to avoid an overlap with similarly themed sessions. Whilst ordinary congress participants may attend the special session, the special session themselves are responsible for bringing participants to their own session.

Evaluation process:

A special session needs to be validated by the International Scientific Committee (ISC) and by the Local Organising Committee of the Congress in order to verify that the scientific level of the session’s content is consistent with the level of the other sessions. The validation process is as follows:

  • The coordinator(s) shall establish a full programme schedule for the special session with a title, names of speakers, titles of presentations and abstracts for each presentation
  • If the session includes posters, a preliminary list of the posters shall be included in the programme.
  • The coordinator(s) shall send the full programme by e-mail to the Chair of the Congress International Scientific Committee (ISC) (Cecilia Tortajada) at: cecilia.tortajada@gmail.com, and the Secretary of the Local Organising Committee (Barry Greig) at: barry.greig@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

The ISC can propose to the coordinator to include in the special session one (or more) presentations relating to abstracts submitted for the general process of evaluation, where such presentations are closely related to the subject of the special sessions.

Announcement of Sessions

Special sessions will be announced on the Congress website as soon as they are validated.

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