1st South East European Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

The local organizing committee wishes to thank all participants for a very successfull conference!

You can find some of the images in the gallery. Additionally, you can also download plenary lectures' presentations as well as all the presentations from the panels.

Please beware of invitations for publishing from journals not related to the conference! Official invitation will be distributed only from the sdewes conference email, and will have a conference header and an option to accept or decline the invitation.

For all attendees who have submitted a full paper which is included in the proceedings, please cite it as follows:

N1. Surname1, N2. Surname2, other authors, Title, Proceedings of the 1st South East Europe Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, SEESDEWES2014.nnnn, 1-m (2014)
(where "nnnn" is your submission code and "m" is the page count of your submission)

If you attended the conference, make sure you log in into the conference system and fill our post-conference survey.

CONFERENCE FEES

Full conference fee:	500 EUR
Reduced conference fee:	250 EUR (see conditions below)
Special reduced conference fee:	150 EUR (see conditions below)
Accompanying person social programme fee:	50 EUR (co-authors are not allowed as accompanying persons)
IC SDEWES members:	waived / 400 EUR (see conditions below)
Active SAB members:	400 EUR
Members of IC SDEWES may have their fees reduced
Additional paper fee:	100 EUR
Presentation date selection fee:	100 EUR
Presentation date change fee:	50 EUR (applies if change is requested after June 1)

Reduced conference fees will be granted to authors only under the following terms:

to BSc, MSc and PhD students, with proper documentation presented proving the student status
participants from certain countries in transition and development
number of granted reduced fees will be limited to 30% of total received
on the basis first asked, first served

Reduced fee request will have to be made through the fee module in the conference submission system.

Special reduced conference fees will be granted to authors only under the following terms:

participants from some of the region's countries on the first come first served basis (AR 5, AZ 5, GE 5, MD 5, UA 5)

Special reduced fee request will have to be made throught the fee module in the conference submission system.

Reduced fee application deadline is February 15, 2014. After the deadline it will not be possible to apply. Approvals of reduced fee applications will begin after February 15, 2014 when applicants will receive a confirmation e-mail. While waiting for the answer, the status of the paper will not change. Once having received decision regarding their request, participant will have 30 days to settle the fee. Failing to settle the fee in due time, the reduced fee status would be cancelled, as well as paper would be converted to conference.

Members of IC SDEWES can have their fee waived if they have an active membership for the running year (membership expires on the 31st December) and have not yet used the waiver option at other SDEWES events.

Participants that need visa are kindly asked to settle their fee before April 30, 2014, since after that date the time will be too short for visa formalities. (visa page)

The full conference fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material, the submission and presentation of up to two papers. The fee is also used to support participation of students and participants from developing countries and economies in transition.

The reduced conference fee allows access to all Conference Sessions, the Conference Social programme, Book of Abstracts, downloadable Proceedings and other Conference material, as well as submission and presentation of up to two papers.

Additional papers per presenting author will be allowed for an additional paper fee.

The accompanying person fee allows access to the Conference Social programme.

Specialised courses participation fee allows access to one of the specialised courses, all the relevant materials, exam and diploma. It may also include ECTS in case the course issues them.

Cancellation policy: Cancellations must be received in writing before June 1, 2014 in order to obtain a refund minus a 100 EUR administrative charge. After June 1, 2014 refunds are not available, sorry, no exception. Cancelled papers will not be published in Proceedings and will not be invited in special issue.

No show policy: Authors which do not participate in the Conference, or who participate but do not present their paper according 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.

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 August 30, 2014. Book of Abstracts and other Conference material including the programme 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 March 15, 2014 and have the paper presented at the Conference, may be invited to one of the special issues.

For additional info on payments process and getting the help please read this info.