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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

Buckminster Fuller, philosopher, futurist and global thinker (1895 - 1983)

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives"

Abba Eban

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

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Conference Fee

Fee
Full conference fee:		490 EUR
Full online conference fee:		360 EUR

Attendance conference fee: (see conditions below)		390 EUR
Attendance online conference fee: (see conditions below)		260 EUR

Reduced conference fee: (see conditions below)		250 EUR
Reduced online conference fee: (see conditions below)		120 EUR

Special reduced conference fee: (see conditions below)		150 EUR
Special reduced online conference fee: (see conditions below)		120 EUR


Active SAB members conference fee:		390 EUR
Active SAB members online conference fee:		260 EUR

IC SDEWES members:		waived (see conditions below)

Additional fees:
Accompanying person social programme fee: (co-authors are not allowed as accompanying persons)		100 EUR
Additional paper fee:		100 EUR
Presentation date selection fee:		100 EUR
Visa fee: (applied only on reduced and special reduced fee)		30 EUR
Poster printing fee:		25 EUR

Please log in with the information used for submission of abstracts and manuscripts, and follow the "FEE / REGISTRATION" link.

Important:

Legal entities from Bosnia and Herzegovina may be subject to local VAT.

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but do not present their paper according to the guidelines, will have their paper cancelled and the paper will not be published in the Proceedings and will not be publishable in a special issue of any of the journals.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.

Fee types:

Full conference fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, 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.
Active SAB members – active meaning that SAB member has sent at least 3 invitations to the conference (which have been followed), or has done at least one review. Additionally, if invitations are accepted SAB members can extra discount
Attendance fee is available to non-presenting co-authors and other participants that are not planning to present any submission. In case the author changes status to presenting, he/she will have to settle the fee difference. Full fee without presentation allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, 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.
Reduced and special reduced conference fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material, as well as submission and presentation of up to two papers (oral + poster; oral presentation is mandatory).

Reduced fee application deadline is March 1, 2020. After the deadline, it will not be possible to apply. Approvals of reduced fee applications will begin after that date when applicants will receive a confirmation e-mail. While waiting for the answer, the status of the paper will not change. Failing to settle the fee in due time (March 26, 2020), the reduced fee status would be cancelled, as well as paper would be converted to conference paper.

Reduced conference fees policy

Reduced conference fees may be granted to authors only under the following terms:

number of granted reduced fees will be limited to 30% of total received regardless of the deadline
it will be granted on the basis first asked, first served
to BSc, MSc and PhD students, with proper documentation presented proving the student status
to authors from countries in transition and development 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

Reduced fee request will have to be made through the fee module in the conference submission system, before the relevant deadline.

Special reduced conference fees may be granted to authors only upon request and under the following terms:

up to 15 special reduced conference fees total (i.e. the difference between a reduced fee and special reduced fee) are financed by SDEWES Centre, max 1 author per country (additional stipends may be financed by other sponsors)
to authors studying/working in countries in transition and development 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, max 1 author per country
to authors studying/working in following countries: MD + UA + AZ + GE + AM, max 1 author per country
to BSc, MSc and PhD students studying/working in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5 authors per country

Special reduced fee request will have to be made through the fee module in the conference submission system.

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.

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!

The accompanying person fee allows access to the Conference Social programme only. It is not available to co-authors of submitted papers.

Additional papers per presenting author will be allowed for an additional paper fee (additional papers are presented as posters).

Other important information:

Cancellation policy: Cancellations must be received in writing before May 28, 2020, in order to obtain a refund minus a 100 EUR administrative charge. After May 28, 2020 refunds are not available, sorry, no exception. Cancelled papers will not be published in Proceedings and will not be invited in the special issues.

Participants that need a visa are kindly asked to settle their fee before April 16, 2020, 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 August 13, 2020. 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 March 26, 2020, and have the paper presented at the Conference, may be invited to one of the special issues.