Abstracts & Registration

Instructions for Authors

Talks will be limited to 25 minutes, including 20 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes for questions and changing speakers. To avoid any technical issues, your presentation should be saved as a Microsoft PowerPoint file (.ppt or .pptx), but a .pdf format is also a possible alternative. Presentations will be displayed from a PC with Windows 11, please check beforehand whether your presentation is compatible with Windows. The presenting authors will be asked to upload their talks to the computer before the start of their session; please bring your presentations on a pen drive or an external hard drive.

Posters should be in A0 format (portrait, 841 × 1189 mm). They will be located on the wall in the lecture room or the corridor next to the coffee breaks during the whole conference and material for attaching posters will be available. To initiate the discussion during the poster sessions, we kindly ask participants to prepare a one-minute talk with a one/two-slide speed presentation (the same technical details apply as above) to briefly introduce their posters and research topics and then to be present at their posters during the poster sessions.

For those, who don't want to care for a poster during a travel or are in a hurry and looking for printing options at the last minute, printing can be arranged in Budapest. We can recommend CopyGuru on József körút 17, 1085 Budapest (they speak English, tested). It usually takes 24 hours to print a poster, but orders can also be made via email (please don't forget to provide all technical details, such as the size of your poster and type of paper) and pick it up there. Details and prices are available on the CopyGuru website. 

We don't ask for any specific template for talks or posters, be creative :)  

If you would like to incorporate the logo of the conference into your contribution, you can download the .png file here.

Conference Proceedings

Registration and abstract submission guidelines

The conference fee includes an icebreaker on the first day, all coffee breaks and refreshments, and a field trip with the conference dinner in the forest on the last day. Lunches are not included in the fee, please visit the section Practical Information about the lunch options. 

The fee is 350 EUR until 1 April 2024 (early bird), after this date the fee increases to 400 EUR (normal registration). After submitting your registration form, the University of Veterinary Medicine will send you an email containing all the necessary details about the payment via bank transfer. All invoices should be sent by now, if you didn't get yours, please let us know. In the registration form, please specify whether you will be an active participant (i.e., presenting a talk and/or poster) and if you want to participate in the field trip with the dinner on the last day or if you have any dietary restrictions. We plan to make the ECM a friendly gathering; accompanying persons (family members, partners, etc.) can attend the conference without any extra cost, and your registration will cover their expenses. Just please let us know at 21stecm[at]gmail.com if you plan to come with an accompanying person.

There is a separate form for abstract submission. We welcome anything about carabid ecology, biogeography, and taxonomy. The title of the abstract must be lowercase, with only the first letter in uppercase. The maximum length of the abstract is 250 words. Figures, tables, and citations in the abstract are not allowed. The presenting author can submit a maximum of one abstract for the talk and one for poster. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed and you will be notified about the acceptance. If the number of submitted talks exceeds the limit we can fit into the program of ECM, your talk can be converted into a poster. We will notify you about this decision. 

Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral students who plan to participate with a talk or poster as a presenting author can submit their contribution to the student competition. Registration for the competition is indicated in the Abstract submission form.