Online Payment by Credit Card (preferred)
Please visit https://payment.mdpi.com/open/sciforum and follow the instructions to pay by credit card. We accept payments in Euros (EUR) through VISA, MasterCard and American Express.
Wire Transfer
Payment in any currency must be made by wire transfer to the MDPI AG bank account. Banks fees must be paid by the customer, for both, payer and payee so that MDPI AG can receive the full invoiced amount.
Please provide the invoice ID when transferring the payment.
Beneficiary's Name: MDPI AG
Beneficiary's Address: St.Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
Bank Name: UBS Switzerland AG
Bank Address: UBS Switzerland AG, Bahnhofstrasse 45, 8001, Zürich, Switzerland
PAYMENT IN EUR
IBAN: CH06 0023 3233 2227 2160 E
SWIFT Code / BIC (Wire Transfer Address): UBSWCHZH80A
Bank Account Number (EUR, Euros Account for MDPI): 0233 00222721.60E
For detailed payment instructions, or for more payment methods, visit the website at https://www.mdpi.com/about/payment .
Registration for all participants includes: Attendance at all sessions and side events, printed book of abstracts with ISBN, paper publication of proceedings with ISBN, conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches, and fieldtrips.
Authors with multiple contributions: Please note that one author registration will cover only ONE accepted contribution.
Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 1 November 2018. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
Participation to the conference is considered final only once the registration fees have been paid. The number of participants is limited: once the number of paid registrations reaches the maximum number of participants, unpaid registrations will be cancelled. Please, note that onsite registrations will not be available.
A series of field trips (free of cost) are organised in order to visit on-site actions and initiatives tackling with resilience. Participants are asked to choose and register in one of the following options. Each field trip has a limit of 50 people. Registration is made when registering to the congress.
Conference Dinner: A conference dinner will be served on 10 December. Please note that the conference fee does not include this social event. Therefore, if you plan to attend the dinner, please make sure you select this extra when registering to the conference (Price per person: €50).
Conference Field Trips: We offer the opportunity to attend to one field trip out of the four options available. Field trips will take place on 12 December and they are free of charge. Please note that there is a limited capacity of 50 spots for each field trip and that, in order to attend to one of them, you should select it when registering to the event.
Please check the section "Field Trips" below for more information or access this link for a full description.
Registrations can be cancelled up to 30 days before the event starts subject to an administrative fee of 120 Euro. Refunds will be processed after the conference.
Registrants can cancel their registration any time prior to the start of the conference in writing by e-mail to ifou2018@sciforum.net. If the registrations fees have been paid to and received by the conference organizers, the registrants will be refunded according to the following schedule:
- Cancellation by the registrant up to and including 30 days before the conference starts: guaranteed refund of the amount of registration fees minus possible bank or credit card fees, which were already paid to and received by the conference organizers, and subject to an administrative service fee of 120 Euro.
- Cancellation by the registrant 29 days or less before the conference starts: no guaranteed refund. In case the conference organizers can easily find a replacement registration from a possible waiting list, the conference organizers may refund part of the received registration fee at their sole discretion, subject to an administrative service fee of 120 Euro.