Call for Additional Abstracts & Special Sessions
IWRA's XVII World Water Congress
29 November - 3 December 2021, Daegu, Korea
Deadline extension: Friday, May 14th
IWRA and the Korean co-organisers of the XVII World Water Congress (Ministry of Environment; Daegu Metropolitan City; K-water; Korea Water Resources Association), extended the deadline for additional abstracts and special sessions submissions to be added to the Congress programme taking place this year between November 29th and December 3rd in Daegu, Korea, to the past Friday, May 14th, 2021.
Important: Submissions accepted in the previous call were still valid and remain in the system unless they were formally withdrawn. This call for additional submissions also offered a chance to present research and work focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic, under the recently added Congress sub-theme – “Building resilient systems for climate change, growing populations and epidemics”. Please note that due to programme limitations, only the best abstracts and special sessions proposals were accepted. Preference could be given to abstracts and proposals that include a strong focus on COVID-19, and experiences learned from responding to the pandemic at local, national or regional levels.
The overarching theme of the XVII World Water Congress remains “Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy”, with 5 different sub-themes and 3 cross-cutting issues. A revised sub-theme on “Building resilient systems for climate change, growing populations and epidemics” was recently added.
Call for Abstracts
- Experts, academics, water professionals, private sector practitioners, and civil society stakeholders, from all disciplines and perspectives who wished to present their work and experiences during this Congress, needed to submit an abstract. Abstracts should clearly have had a focus on one of the sub-themes, describe the research, analysis, project or investigation in a maximum of 350 words, in English (with no graphs, charts, diagrams, images, references, or citations). Once accepted, a full paper will be submitted by November 3rd, 2021, for both oral and poster presentations. The International Scientific Committee (ISC) offered to peer review a strictly limited number of papers in cases where authors need peer review to obtain funding to attend the congress. More info here.
Call for Special Sessions
- A Special Session is a parallel session on the main congress programme, proposed to the ISC by an organisation or group of organisations. It needs to be aligned with one or more of the congress themes, with focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, and a significant issue not explicitly covered by one of the official sub-themes, and/ or highlighting an important collaborative programme or initiative. A special session must be of interest to a broad range of congress delegates, not just designed for project collaborators and stakeholders. Typically, it comprises a 90-minute session, with specific content and speakers (5 to 6), prepared in English under 1,000 words. More info here.
In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact us at congress@iwra.org.
