Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Designs (ISSN: 2411-9660), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.

All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of the 1st International Online Conference on Designs - Energy Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Proceedings (indexed within Scopus, ISSN: 2673-4591); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge.

Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the Designs 2026 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.

Proceedings submission deadline: 28 March 2026.

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title
Full author names
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References.

The proceeding paper template can be downloaded HERE.