First Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

we are pleased to announce that the First call for papers of ECIL 2025 has been published.

You can access it here.

Aim & Scope

Information Literacy in an AI-driven World being the main theme, ECIL aims to bring together researchers, information professionals, media specialists, educators, policy makers and all other related parties from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss recent developments and current challenges in both theory and practice.

Visit this page for all conference topics.

Important Dates

  • First call: October 2024
  • Second call: November 2024
  • Third call: December 2024
  • Abstract submission deadline: 3 February 2025
  • Notification of acceptance for abstracts: 10 March 2025
  • Deadline for submitting final versions of abstracts: 17 March 2025
  • Authors’ notification on final decision on abstract category: 7 April 2025
  • Registration starts: 5 May 2025
  • Full-text submission deadline: 16 May 2025
  • Notification of acceptance for full-texts: 16 June 2025
  • Deadline for submitting final versions of full-texts: 4 July 2025
  • Early registration deadline: 15 July 2025
  • Author registration deadline: 15 July 2025
  • Regular registration: Between 16 July – 14 September
  • Late & Onsite registration: After 15 September
  • Conference sessions: 22-25 September 2025

See updated Important Dates list here!

Paper Submission

The Conference is composed of several types of contributions, such as full papers, posters, PechaKucha, best practices, workshops, panels, invited talks, and doctoral forum, each of which has different requirements and restrictions regarding the length, time allocation and content. Contributions should be prepared using the templates available through the Conference web site and submitted electronically via the conference management system before the deadlines indicated under important dates. Contributions will be peer-reviewed. Detailed information about review process can be obtained from Conference web site. At least one of the authors should register online via Conference web site and take part at the Conference to make the presentation.

More information on abstract submission is available here.

The conference management system opens January 2025.

Venue

University of Bamberg, Auditorium Building Markusstr. 8a, 96047 Bamberg

More information about the venue and other practical information can be found on this page.

Contact

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.

Welcome to the ECIL 2025 Website

The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) is organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University and the Information Literacy Association.

The ninth ECIL conference will be co-organized and hosted by University of Bamberg from 22-25 September 2025, in Bamberg, Germany.