Tropentag 2026:

Contributions - Time frame

Submission of abstracts

The conference language is English. A panel of referees will decide upon the acceptance of the contributions based on the abstract. The decision for a contribution to be accepted as poster or as oral presentation is at the discretion of the panel of referees. A programme committee will allocate the accepted oral contributions into 20 interdisciplinary sessions. Contributions of an interdisciplinary nature will be preferentially selected as oral presentation.

To submit your abstract, please use the online form available here.
Abstracts of original research should be 250-350 words. Abstracts with less than 250 or more than 350 words will be rejected by the online form, in this case please add or remove text from your abstract. Immediately after submission, an automatic reply message will be generated and sent to the email address you provide. This message will contain the WWW addresses of both a web version and a print version of your document, generated from the data submitted via the online form. Please check these versions and report any errors to infotropentag.de.

If you have problems using the online form, you can send your contribution to the e-mail address infotropentag.de, including your abstract in the body of the mail or attaching it as a plain ASCII text file. If your abstract contains special characters and/or equations that cannot be represented as plain text, you may attach a document file in a suitable format (pdf, rtf, Word document, ...) to your mail.

Please note that we will check all submissions for (self-)plagiarism. All submitted abstracts should be based primarily on research that has not yet been presented at another conference or published in a conference proceedings in this format.

If the research has been recently published (within the last six months prior to submission) in a peer-reviewed journal but not yet presented at a conference, it may be submitted to Tropentag. It is also acceptable for presentations to include previously presented or published elements, as long as they are necessary to ensure context or completeness. However, the core content should be new or unpresented work.

Notification of acceptance

Prior to June 3, 2026, all persons who submitted a contribution will be informed about the decision of the Scientific Board concerning the acceptance of their contribution.

All accepted contributions will be compiled in the book-of-abstracts. A printed copy of this book can be obtained by all in-person participants during registration for the conference. All accepted contributions are also published on-line (https://www.tropentag.de). However, contributions that are not presented at the Tropentag will be deleted from the online version of the proceedings.

Submission of four page paper

All authors of accepted contributions are free to submit a four page paper version of their contribution before October 31, 2026.

These papers will be published online at the website of Tropentag (http://www.tropentag.de).

The contribution must be ca. 4 pages; paper size is DIN A4 (21x29.7 cm), top margin is 2.5cm, bottom, left and right margins are 2.2 cm. All images, figures and tables must be inserted directly into the text. You have to use the file Template_TT.rtf as template for your contribution. Recommended layout and structure may also be seen from this four page version submitted for Tropentag 2015 in Berlin.

In order to facilitate the process of publishing your four page paper online, only Acrobat pdf files (portable document files, extension: .pdf) are accepted. If you encounter problems by converting your paper, you are also free to submit your contribution in .doc format as Email attachment to infotropentag.de.

Please submit your four-page-version prior to October 31, 2026, otherwise the paper will not be published on the internet. For the upload of the four page paper versions, please use our upload portal.

Guidelines for poster presentations

Guidelines for online presentations

Guidelines for oral presentations