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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

The Report of the U.N. Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, 1987

"If there are to be problems, may they come during my life-time so that I can resolve them and give my children the chance of a good life."

Kenyan proverb

"Then I say the Earth belongs to each generation during its course, fully and in its right no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its existence"

Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789

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Conference Fee

Conference fee

Regular

Online

Full fee:

790 EUR + VAT*

590 EUR + VAT*

Attendance fee:
(non presenters only)

690 EUR + VAT*

190 EUR + VAT*

Reduced fee**:

390 EUR + VAT*

190 EUR + VAT*

Special reduced fee**:

190 EUR + VAT*

Active SAB members fee:

690 EUR + VAT*

490 EUR + VAT*

IC SDEWES members:

waived (see conditions below)

Additional fees:

Additional paper fee:

100 EUR + VAT*

Top-up to regular fee:

N/A

250 EUR + VAT*

*Croatian VAT is 25%. Local VAT is applied for all EU and non-EU payments on the basis of the VAT legislation regarding the admission to a cultural, scientific, educational event (articles 53 and 54.1 of the European VAT DIRECTIVE 2006/112/EC).

**See conditions below. Only upon official request through the conference system.

Credit card payments and proforma invoice downloads for bank transfers are available through the "FEE / REGISTRATION" link in the system. Please first read the conditions below and contact payment@sdewes.org if you have any questions.

What is included in the fee:

Full, SAB, reduced and special reduced conference fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, lunch and coffee breaks, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material, the submission and presentation of up to two papers (oral + poster; oral presentation is mandatory). The fee is also used to support the participation of students and participants from developing countries and economies in transition.
Attendance fee is available to non-presenting co-authors and other participants that are not planning to present any submission. In case that author changes status to presenting, he/she will have to settle the fee difference. Attendance fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, lunch and coffee breaks, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material. The fee is also used to support the participation of students and participants from developing countries and economies in transition.
Online fee includes the presentation and submission of up to two oral papers and access to Book of Abstracts and downloadable Proceedings.
Accompanying person fee will be available depending on Covid-19 development. Fee allows access to the Conference Social programme (welcome reception, conference excursion and dinner). It is not available to co-authors of submitted papers.

Reduced conference fees policy

Reduced and special reduced fee may be granted to presenting authors only under the following terms:

author has an accepted abstract for the conference
author has sent the request through the fee module in the conference submission system, before the relevant deadline

Reduced fee is granted to BSc, MSc and PhD students who have sent proper documentation proving their student status

Reduced fee is also granted to authors studying/working in countries which have GDP/cap of less than 8000 USD in any of the data series published by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

Special reduced fee is granted to authors studying/working in countries which have GDP/cap of less than 4000 USD in any of the data series published by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita (+ countries AZ, MD, AM, GE, BY, TM) max 1 author per country

Important: reduced and special reduced fees will be granted upon request through the conference system. Requests are approved before the relevant deadline and until the quota is filled.

Members of IC SDEWES can have their fee waived if they have an active membership for the running year (membership expires on the 31^st December) and have not yet used the waiver option at other SDEWES events in the same year.

Membership is non-refundable and non-transferable!

Other important information:

Cancellation policy: Cancellations or any refund requests must be received in writing before September 10, 2021 in order to obtain a refund minus a 100 EUR + VAT administrative charge. After September 10, 2021 refunds are not available, sorry, no exception. Cancelled papers will not be published in Proceedings and will not be invited in the special issue.

No show policy: Authors which do not participate in the Conference, or who participate but do not present their paper according to the guidelines, will have their paper cancelled and the paper will not be published in the Proceedings and will not be publishable in a special issue of any of the journals. In case of no show fee refund is not possible.

Online fees policy: Authors that settle an online fee will present through video or audio narrated presentations on our virtual conference platform with the same publishing policy as if presented in person. Authors will have the right to present online also in the case the conference is held on-site. Authors that pay an online fee but decide to attend in person will have to settle the fee difference. Authors that pay or have paid a regular fee but choose to present in an online mode will receive a SDEWES credit in the amount of their fee difference that may be used for any future SDEWES Conference.
The deadline for the above-mentioned changes will be the same as the cancellation/refund deadline.

Participants that need visa are kindly asked to settle their fee before July 30, 2021, since after that date the time will be too short for visa formalities (see visa page).

Publishing policy: Only papers presented at the Conference by one of the authors will be published in the Proceedings, which will be delivered to the participants online by October 25, 2021. Book of Abstracts and other Conference material including the application for later downloading online Proceedings, will only be delivered at the Conference venue to the presenting authors. The materials will not be available after the Conference by mail.

Special issue publishing policy: Only papers that corresponding authors nominate, ISC with help of reviewers recommends, presenting author has the conference fee settled by May 21, 2021 and have the paper presented at the Conference, may be invited to one of the special issues.