DIY-Fair Abstract Submission

Pre-registration for fair closes

30th April 2022

Submission of fair videos opens

1st April 2022

Submission of fair videos closes

15th June 2022

Submission acceptance notification

23rd June 2022

Registration and Abstract submission Opens

1st December 2025

Abstract Submission Closes

16th March 2026

The notifications of acceptance or rejection will be send to all authors

By the middle of May

The do-it-yourself-fair provides a platform for the participants of ECMP to showcase  do-it-yourself solutions in medical physics. These include eg. phantoms, software, open source solutions, hacks, 3-D printed items, ways of automating tasks and any other kind of ideas. You could also present proposals under development, allowing brainstorming with other colleagues at the DIY Fair.

First introduced in Dublin, 2022, the fair offers visibility to new ideas in the creative medical physics community, facilitates networking and helps share witty, simple and usually low cost solutions to the many needs of our daily work. Read all about the first edition of the DIY Fair in the EFOMP Journal Physica Medica.

The proposal will be shown in a 5-minute video, to be uploaded in the appropriate web section. During ECMP 2026, at the DIY Fair, the video of the accepted proposal will be shown and the created objects will be presented.

The most useful and interesting ones will be selected by a panel and, after ECMP 2026, uploaded to the EFOMP e-LEMENT platform to be shared in the long term (upon agreement of the authors).

The DIY-fair in nutshell

The abstracts  will be submitted via the submission form. Any subject and/or author index to be included should also be submitted by the deadline.

The length of the abstract must be between 250 words.

Abstract submissions should be single spaced.

The best evaluated posters by scientific committee will be presented in a special session at the congres.

In case that the authors do not meet the guidelines, the organization committee reserves the right to edit the information provided by the authors in the abstract, specifically in the fields: “authors”, “work center” and “province/state”, in order to meet the guidelines indicated above.

To present a work, at least the corresponding author must be registered to the Congress at the time of work acceptance. 

Abstract title: Each abstract title should be formatted in sentence case.

Authors:

  • Each author must be added in the authors section with a correct mail.
  • If the presenting/corresponding author must be identified, indicate this on the platform in each abstract.
  • All authors who sign the work must be indicated on the platform by completing the following fields: Name and Last name, Mail, Company/University, City and Country.

Author affiliations: Number each affiliation and list them in sentence case for every author. If an author has multiple affiliations, indicate the numbers for each.

Abstract text:

  • If headings are appropriate, format headings (with the colon) in boldface.
  • If any abstracts include references, cite them by number in brackets before the sentence punctuation (e.g., [1].). Do not superscript reference numbers.
  • Should be structured as follows: Background and Aims, Methods and Materials, Results and Key Words.

Once you submit an abstract, it will be saved on the platform in your user area as provisional and you will be able to edit it as many times as you need until the deadline or until it is evaluated. At that point it will become definitive.

You will be able to preview the appearance of the summary while you write it. Afterwards, you can leave it in Draft status, if you wish to revise it later. Remember, any submission that is in Draft status is not considered submitted. You must change its status to Pending evaluation so that it can be evaluated by the Scientific Committee.

Once your work has been evaluated and accepted you must submit MP4 video presentation/demonstration of your contribution. The format of the presentation is free. The maximum length of the recording is 5 minutes.

Selected presentations will be made available in an online repository for the ECMP 2026 meeting. The videos are available to all attendees.

For on-site participants of ECMP 2026, a ‘trade fair session’ is organised in which participants who physically attend will give practical demonstrations of the presentations.

We also welcome submissions that have previously published or presented elsewhere​.