Frequently Asked Questions
Here we answer all frequently asked questions about the following topics concerning the presentations.
No, all accepted presentations need to be done in-person at the ECCO Congress.
A PPT template is available for each new congress year. You’ll find it in the ECCO Portal here: Congress Template
It is not mandatory to use the ECCO Template, however, we encourage all presenters to use the ECCO Template for their presentations. The ECCO template can be found here: ECCO26_MASTER_Congress_template.pptx
In case your abstracts get accepted, the presenting author needs to be registered for the ECCO Congress in order to present the abstracts. If you are unable to attend the congress it will be fine as long as the presenting author will attend and present the abstracts.
As stated in the abstract guidelines, the presenting author needs to be present during the ECCO Congress in order to present the abstract: “Submission of an abstract constitutes a formal commitment by the author to present the abstract in the session and at the time decided upon by the ECCO Organising Committee. Any change in the presenting author needs to be communicated in the form of a written statement to the ECCO Office well in advance.
When selected for presentation, the copyright of the abstract is released to ECCO and permission is given for the abstract to be published in the JCC Abstract Book, as well as on the ECCO Website and possibly an ECCO mobile application.
The title as well as the disclosure slides are compulsory. If you manage to keep the short timeframe for presentation, you can have 6 slides plus the title and disclosure slide. Please note, if you run over the allocated presentation times, the chairs have the right to end your presentation. Therefore, we usually encourage a 1 minute per slide as a reference.
Oral presentations in the scientific programme will be video recorded and will be available on the ECCO e-Learning platform together with all other sessions of the scientific programme.
Please note that oral presentations and digital oral presentations will not be displayed as hard copy posters. The poster exhibition solely includes abstracts which have been accepted as hard copy poster only.
Industry representatives are not allowed to present any abstract types (i.e. Oral Presentation, Digital oral presentations or posters). Medical/research investigators working for your clients are accepted as presenters.
Please use the poster number (P-xxx) on your poster.
You can find the logo either in the poster presentation guidelines for download or follow the link in the abstract acceptance notification email.
QR codes are permitted, given that those link solely to electronic versions of the respective abstracts. Links to commercial pages in any form are not allowed.
Please bring your printed version of the poster to the ECCO Congress. There will be a physical poster exhibition only, where you can mount your poster on the dedicated spot/board.
In addition, you can upload your poster as an e-Poster to the ECCO Congress platform. E-Posters will only be available on the Congress platform for registered delegates and until end of May. Accepted oral and digital oral presentations will not be displayed as hard copy posters.
Each poster presenter will receive a link and instructions, where and how they can upload the e-Poster.
140cm x 90cm are the maximum dimensions, please make sure that your poster is portrait style and does not exceed these dimensions.
In general, handing out additional information for the posters as flyers not permitted.
Should your client be an exhibitor at the upcoming congress, he or she is only free to distribute flyers at the respective booth and not at the poster.
Ideally posters should be mounted on Thursday from 07:30-10:00 so that posters are set up prior to the opening of the congress.
In case you arrive at a later stage, you can also mount your poster on Thursday afternoon. Alternatively, your colleagues could also mount the poster for you, in case they arrive earlier.
If the abstract is accepted as hard copy poster at the ECCO Congress, it will be displayed on a poster board. Please note that e-posters are additionally available on the Congress Platform. Each poster presenter will receive a link, where they can upload the e-Poster. The e-Poster is in addition to the hard copy poster. Accepted oral and digital oral presentations will not be displayed as hard copy posters.