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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;">in 2026, we will host ECVP in the beautiful city of Bournemouth (UK). The European Conference on Visual Perception is the largest annual meeting of vision scientists and perceptual psychologists in Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;">We invite you to organize a symposium on a hot topic of your choice. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><b>NOTE: We have extended the deadline for symposia until February 10th, 2026.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;">Organizing or speaking in a symposium does not prevent organizers or speakers from submitting an additional abstract for a talk or poster presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; color: rgb(14, 14, 14);">Please find the information on the submission of symposia at the conference website
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; color: rgb(56, 101, 115);"><u><a href="https://ecvp2026.uk/submissions/" data-outlook-id="cab2bfb0-23a6-4ae2-a360-6d1397ab5c16" style="color: rgb(56, 101, 115);">https://ecvp2026.uk/submissions/</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; color: rgb(14, 14, 14);"> and
below.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;">Early career researchers are particularly encouraged to take advantage of the opportunity to organize a symposium. The Organizing Committee seeks diversity in ECVP submissions in terms of gender, age, nationality, ethnicity,
and topic.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;" role="presentation">The submission should include (1) a title, (2) a general symposium abstract (word limit: 400), (3) the names of the main organiser(s) and speakers with related affiliations, and (4) the titles of all
talks and co-authors. Please indicate the preferred order of talks for the symposium. The general symposium abstract should describe the theme, the motivation, and the relevance of the topic for the ECVP community.</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;" role="presentation">A symposium may have a maximum of two organisers (who may also be speakers in the symposium). The organiser of the symposium is in charge of the submission and communicating with the identified speakers
on the arrangements if selected.</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;" role="presentation">There should be a minimum of four speakers and maximum of five speakers, with some time allocated for the audience to ask questions. Talk time and Q&A time can be scheduled within the
<b><u>1.5-hour session </u></b>according to the symposia organisers’ discretion (e.g., after individual talks or concentrated at the end of the session).</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;" role="presentation">Individual abstracts of all talks in a symposium will need to be submitted during the abstract submission period (indicating that this is submitted as an accepted symposium talk). Once the symposium is
accepted, any change to schedules or speakers will need to be approved by the organising committee.</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;" role="presentation">Please submit the symposium proposal to
<b>ecvp2026@bournemouth.ac.uk</b>.</span></li><li style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;" role="presentation">Symposia submissions opened on the 18th of December 2025 and close on the 10th of February 2026. Notification of accepted symposia will be communicated on the 17th of February.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px;">We look forward to welcoming you in Bournemouth!</span></div>
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