Submission

Eligible Participants 

Submissions are welcome from PhD students, architects, designers, engineers, urbanists, planners, geographers, historians, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists and all researchers and professionals interested in the themes of the conference. 

Submission Procedure 

Contributions will be submitted via email: thecure@unibo.it 

All the contributions needs to be written in English, and submitted in both PDF and word format. 

Conference oral presentation may be delivered both in English in Italian, prior notification. 

There are no conference fees. 

Initial submission of the abstract: 

Authors are invited to submit their abstract in a blind version, without names and affiliations, by email.  

The subject line of the email should read: Abstract Submission_THECURE- Abstract. 

The attached file should be named: TrackN_ShortTitle_THECURE (replacing N with the track number, 1 to 3).  

Abstracts should include the following elements: 

-Title of the contribution 

-Conference track to which the proposal is addressed (Track 01, 02 or 03) 

-Abstract of 3,000–5,000 characters and 3–5 keywords 

-A selected list of bibliographic references in APA style 

When submitting their paper, authors must indicate whether they are willing to attend the conference in person and whether they wish to have the full paper or just the abstract published 

Full paper submission:  

Once the abstract has been accepted, authors will be invited to submit the full paper by 5 October, blind version, without names or affiliations. 

Final submission:  

Following final acceptance, and based on the reviewers’ suggestions, authors re-upload the abstract file and the full paper file, including names and affiliations. 

Final extension of the full text of the paper must not exceed 30.000 characters (including spaces). For each contribution is requested a minimum of one and a maximum of five images (pictures, drawings or diagrams). 

Biographical details for each author must be also provided in a separate document, including:  

- First name and surname of all authors 

- Affiliation, email address and field of study  

- A brief biography of no more than 100 words 

- Name of the corresponding author 

Review and Selection 

Proposed abstracts will be evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process conducted by the Conference Organising Committee.  

The evaluation will be based on originality, scientific quality, and relevance to the conference’s themes and topics.  

Notifications of abstract acceptance will be sent by 27 July, following the deadline for submissions. 

All selected authors will be required to submit their full paper by 5 October at the latest.  Full papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process by the Conference Scientific Committee, and feedback will be sent by 26 October. 

Following selection, authors will be informed of the editorial guidelines to be followed for the final version of the paper. 

Authors of selected full papers will be invited to present their work at the International Conference on 15 December 2026.