ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS NOW CLOSED.

Notifications of acceptance have been sent. 

Extended abstract publication
The organisers are producing a program book and the abstracts on a cd. A publishing house, Medimond, is doing a special Journal issue for those who wish to submit extended abstracts to them. They will charge authors who take up this option.
The extended papers of the scientific presentations will be published in order to make the contents of the works presented at ICOPA XII accessible to a wider audience. To obtain additional information please contact directly the Publisher Medimond – Monduzzi Editore International Proceedings Division at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit the website  http://www.medimond.com/proceedings/moreinfo/20100815.htm  

Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts for all Conference presentations will be published as the Proceedings of the Conference. The Program Committee will select some presentations for the oral program from the submitted abstracts and will notify those authors. Other submissions will be offered a poster presentation.

General Information
Means of Submission - Online
By clicking on the link, you will be taken to a web page where you can cut and paste your abstract in several simple steps. The benefits of this system are many but include:
i. Allowing you to preview your abstract and make modifications to your satisfaction.
ii. Ensuring you know your lodgement is completed as you will receive an immediate email confirmation
iii. Ensuring accurate indexing of all authors in the abstract book
iv. Ensuring consistent presentation of all abstracts in the proceedings (overarching formatting is imposed).

Before You Start
Are you using one of the following browsers
   INTERNET EXPLORER (ver 5.5 or newer)
   NETSCAPE (ver 7.4 or newer) or
   MOZILLA (ver 1.3 or newer)

If you are not using one of these software packages the screen will prompt you. You should then use another computer with one of those packages installed. Is your abstract text less than 300 words – it will not allow you to paste larger submissions. The word count does NOT include your title, authoring or cited references
Have you got your abstract open and running on your own computer? – you need to be able to cut and paste it onto the web.
Have you got an image in your abstract? If you have, you must have saved it as it's own image file on your computer first. (It should be a .tif .gif .png or .jpg file)
Have you got a table in your abstract? If you have, it may copy and paste straight into the submission. This is likely if you have used the Times New Roman font and it is not physically large (try and keep it less than 12 cm wide on an A4 sheet). Otherwise you should save a copy of your table as an image file on your own computer first and upload that. (It should be a .tif .gif .png or .jpg file)

The Process
Firstly you will need to complete your personal details. Importantly on the first page you must let us know if you are not the actual person who will be going to the meeting to present the work. If this is the case, you need to know the presenting person's email address.
There is a preliminary page of questions, this is where you are asked about your presentation preference, the category your work falls into, and so on.
When you get to the final confirmation page, you will be invited to go on and register. If you do it at this stage, you will not have to enter your personal details again.

When You Have Finished Your Submission
As long as you haven't incorrectly filled your own email address, you will get an immediate confirmation which includes a .pdf copy of your submission for your records. On the last screen of the lodgement page
YES - YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES AFTER YOU HAVE SUBMITTED!!
Your confirmation email will have instructions on how to go back and edit your work or make small changes. This will remain open and possible until the program committee allocates your work to the program.

Acceptance Notification
Notification of programming decisions will come from the secretariat shortly after the expiry of deadlines and the working program will be posted to the web site. The notification will include specific presentation instructions but in the interim, those preparing posters should note the maximum size allowed is 100cm wide by 120cm deep. Velcro will be available to fix the poster to the boards. Computer data projection is the preferred presentation method for orals.

Web Publishing
A couple of weeks before the meeting, the final program will be published to this web page along with hyperlinks to the abstracts.