Abstract Submission has been closed on March 2. We thank everyone that has submitted their work for presentation at EAC 2020! The Program Committee, composed of experts from the relevant Working Groups, is currently reviewing all submitted abstracts thoroughly. Notifications of acceptance or rejection of the abstracts will be sent to the corresponding author (the submitter) by May 15.

We deeply regret to inform you that the measures imposed by the German authorities to counteract the corona virus pandemic unfortunately prevent an in-person EAC2020. We are therefore forced to cancel this year’s in-person EAC in Aachen. After consulting German authorities and the convention center Eurogress, we came to the conclusion, that a successful conference under the strict regulations would not be possible with a number of participants that ensures a true EAC experience. Thus, the desired exchange of scientists among each other and customer contact for our sponsors would not be possible. We, the local organizing committee, are currently working hard on an off-site solution that offers the excellent work of the submitting scientists and the reviewers as well as our sponsors a platform with the best possible visibility that can be achieved under these circumstances. Please be patient and give us some time to reach this goal. Scientific work continues. The authors just received the results of the reviewing process. We will publish the form in which the individual contributions can be presented to the scientific community later. It is heart breaking for the local organizers to send this message. For more than four years we had planned a fantastic EAC for you and we are desperately sad that we have to cancel the in-person convention with the checkered flag directly in sight now. (last update: May 5, 2020)

We, the local organizing committee, are currently evaluating an off-site solution that offers the excellent work of the submitting scientists and the reviewers as well as our sponsors a platform with the best possible visibility that can be achieved under these circumstances.
At the Moment we can’t communicate a final conference fee to you until the final format of the off-site solution is fixed. But be assured it will be much less compared to the original fee. We will directly inform you after the evaluation is finished!
(last update: June 15, 2020)

EAC2020 moved on(line) and will be held from August 31st to September 4th. We have decided on the following virtual concept:
– There will be four types of sessions during the conference
o Plenaries will be presented live with the possibility to ask questions via chat
o Parallel voice-chat sessions to discuss platform presentations (5 min discussion per presentation)
o Parallel voice-chat sessions to discuss posters (3 min discussion per presentation)
o Exhibition offering live interaction with sponsors
– Author Notification is on July 20th, informing you on the presentation type for your contribution
– Presentations can be uploaded from August 10 to August 24
o For “platform presentations” you should provide a video file of max 12 min length
o For “poster presentations” you should make a pitch of max 3 min
o All presentations: you prepare one single slide that will be uploaded and displayed during discussion sessions
o Posters supply a pdf of their one page poster
– Presentations will be available to all registered conference attendees for viewing online starting August 28
– Exciting special events such as the Young Investigators Network (YIN) and a virtual fun run
Further information on the required data formats of your presentations as well as on the upload procedure will be given soon. You can manage your submission using our conference managing system www.conftool.com/eac2020.
(last update: July 8, 2020)