The 5th International Multidisciplinary Symposium will focus on the impact of new information and communication technologies in the fields of the prevention, research and treatment for excessive gambling and addictive behaviours. This focus in underpinned by the right to health as a scope for action.
The symposium should appeal to socio-health professionals, including those practising in the field of prevention and gambling addiction, and more generally, addictive behaviours, as well as all legal and economic professionals, politicians, professionals concerned with operator social responsibility, etc.
Targeted audience
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- Socio-health professionals
- Legal and business professionals
- Political decision-makers
- Prevention and public health professionals
- Clinical practitioners
- Gambling and addiction researchers
The event will include plenary sessions, parallel symposia and workshops, round table discussions, oral communications, posters, video material and stands. Communication is in four working languages: French, German, Italian, and English.
Only plenary and round table discussions will benefit from simultaneous translation (French, German and English).
Please note: Your abstract must be submitted in the same language that your presentation will be given in.
Abstract submissions will be reviewed by our selected committee and evaluated based on the originality of topic, the depth of the research/practice, and relevance to the symposium theme.
Important dates
• Registration and call for abstracts: from 15.11.2024
• Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15.02.2025
• Reduced-rate registration deadline: 12.03.2025
Open list of themes
- Public health approach and harm reduction
- Social costs
- Comparative law and framework conditions
- Ethnology and social anthropology
- Addictive behaviour
and regulatory processes - Selective prevention programmes
- Youth protection
- Community healthcare
- Specialised structures and therapies
- Health at work
- Relatives
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Neurobiology of addictive behaviour
- Video games and addictive
behaviours
Presentations types
Parallel sessions
Your presentation will be grouped with two or three other similarly themed oral presentations. The total session will last 90 minutes; the length of your presentation will therefore be either 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A (for sessions with 4 speakers) or 20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A (for sessions with 3 speakers).
Poster presentations
The posters will be briefly orally presented during 2 poster sessions.
Audio-video or online material
On request there will be the possibility to project prevention or training material for the duration of the congress.
For an additional cost, it will be possible to have a stand with computer access in order to present online material.
Working languages
French, German, Italian, English.
Only plenary conferences and round table discussions will benefit from simultaneous translation into French, English and German.
Guidelines
Editorial guidelines
Abstracts should not be longer than 250 words and should not include tables, figures or references.
Abstracts of empirical work should be presented in the following format: Introduction, Method, Results and Conclusion.
Abstracts of non-empirical work should be presented in the following format: Background, Main issue, and Conclusion.
Authors are responsible for the content and the accuracy of their abstracts.
Submission
Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2025
The Selection Committee will give you a formal response to your abstract in March 2025.
Abstract Submission Form
Please submit your abstract in the language in which you will give your presentation!