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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)

"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

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

Abba Eban

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Conference Fee

ON-SITE PARTICIPATION FEES
Full conference fee:	1.090 EUR
Attendance fee: (see conditions below)	990 EUR
Reduced conference fee**: (see conditions below)	590 EUR
Special reduced conference fee**: (see conditions below)	290 EUR
Active SAB members:	990 EUR
IC SDEWES members:	waived (see conditions below)

ONLINE ONLY PARTICIPATION FEES
Full conference fee:	690 EUR
Attendance fee: (see conditions below)	290 EUR
Reduced conference fee**: (see conditions below)	290EUR
Special reduced conference fee**: (see conditions below)	190 EUR
Active SAB members:	590 EUR
IC SDEWES members:	waived (see conditions below)

TOP UP FEES (for those who settled online fee and decided to join on-site)
Full conference fee:	490 EUR
Attendance fee: (see conditions below)	790 EUR
Reduced conference fee**: (see conditions below)	390 EUR
Special reduced conference fee**: (see conditions below)	190 EUR
Active SAB members:	490 EUR

Additional fees:
***Accompanying person social programme fee: (co-authors are not allowed as accompanying persons)	230 EUR
Additional paper fee (poster only):	140 EUR
Presentation date selection fee:	100 EUR
Visa fee: (applied only on reduced and special reduced fee)	40 EUR
Poster printing fee:	40 EUR

* All prices include VAT.

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

*Italian VAT is 22%. 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.

***Available upon inquiry and availability.

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 (onsite and online), 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 through the online conference platform and access to Book of Abstracts and downloadable Proceedings.
Accompanying person fee allows access to the Conference Social programme (welcome reception, conference excursion and dinner). It is not available to co-authors of submitted papers. Please note that lunches are only for conference participants (business networking lunch), are not included in the accompanying person's fee nor can be purchased by accompanying persons. Accompanying person fee is available upon inquiry and availability.

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
authors did not submit invited abstract to a special session

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: List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita (wikipedia) (+ countris ME, RS)

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: List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita (wikipedia) (+ countries AM, AZ, GE, MD, MN, TM, UA) 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 August 8, 2024 in order to obtain a refund minus a 100 EUR administrative charge. After August 8, 2024 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 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 (top up fee). 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 June 20, 2024, 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 September 26, 2024. 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 April 10, 2024 and have the paper presented at the Conference, may be invited to one of the special issues.