To present your research at the ECP2022:

1. Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ in the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.

2. Submit a short abstract in English (150–300 words) before 13 March 2022.

3. The Conference Committee will evaluate all the submitted abstracts, and authors will be notified by 20 March 2022 about acceptance.

4. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to prepare a full description of their work (max. 6 pages), optionally accompanied by a Poster/PowerPoint/Video Presentation (max. 5 minutes), for the submission deadline of 17 April 2022.

   Note: Submissions with a high repetition rate and lack of novelty will not be published in the conference proceedings.

5. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on sciforum.net for discussion and rating during the time of the conference, from 17–31 May 2022.

6. The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Proceedings (ISSN 2673-4591) after the conference. Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.

7. Participants of this e-conference will also be encouraged to submit a full paper to the conference Special Issue in Processes with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (APC).

Proceedings Papers

Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template and converted to PDF before submission. They should follow this organization:

• Title

• Full author names

• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.

• Abstract

• Keywords

• Introduction

• Methods

• Results and Discussion

• Conclusions

• Conflict of Interest

• (Acknowledgements)

• References

The manuscript should be at least three pages (including figures, tables, and references) and not exceed 6 pages. Authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose on the text and make the layout very difficult.

Please note that the manuscript cannot be published in any place other than the conference proceedings. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal website and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.

Presentation Slides

Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.

Video Presentations

Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is a unique way of presenting your research and discussing it with peers from all over the world. Video should be no longer than 3–5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 200Mb). It should be submitted before 17 April 2022.

Posters

Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters without an accompanying Proceedings paper should be presented in the Poster Session (Session 8).

After abstract acceptance, if you wish to submit your presentation slides, poster or video without a Proceedings paper, please upload a copy of the short abstract as PDF and Word files, in the corresponding required fields, and upload your file in the corresponding optional field. Submissions without a Proceedings paper will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.

Special Issue Submission

Full paper versions of accepted submissions are encouraged to be submitted to the conference Special Issue after the conference. These full papers should be novel and significantly different from the Proceedings papers. These papers will be subject to peer review after they are submitted using the journal submission system.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate ‘Conflict of Interest’ statement preceding the ‘Acknowledgments’ and ‘References’ sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state ‘The authors declare no conflict of interest.’ Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the ‘Acknowledgments’ section.

Copyright

MDPI, the owner of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).