Abstract Submission

The submission must be done electronically where the first step is to create an account. Please read and follow the instructions below to submit your abstract(s) online.

Abstract submission for EMTC2025 (13th European Music Therapy Conference) is closed.

Abstracts for paper presentations, posters, workshops, roundtables, symposia and our special interdisciplinary “bridges”-format are invited in all areas relevant to music therapy practice and research embraced by the theme: Bridges.

All abstracts (max 250 words including references) will be subjected to blind peer-review by the Scientific Committee and coordinated and scheduled by the organising committee.

The review will assess the following criteria:

  • relevance in line with the topic,
  • practical and theoretical implications for music therapy,
  • quality of empirical work and theoretical foundation,
  • clarity of ideas and structure,
  • novelty and originality.

Please note

The conference offers professionals and researchers the opportunity to meet in person, present, engage, share and communicate. To encourage this, it will not be possible to present online.

To ensure that as many high quality diverse presentations as possible are accepted, the Scientific Committee will only consider one abstract for a paper presentation from each speaker and a maximum of two abstracts in the other categories. As a first author, abstracts can therefore be submitted in a maximum of three different categories; there is no limitation regarding co-authorship.

All selected speakers are required to attend the live conference in Hamburg. Speakers must register separately for the congress via the online registration and pay the participation fee (Early bird rate ends on 31st March 2025). All abstracts should be submitted and presented in English.

Presentation Formats

The following presentation formats are available at the EMTC2025

  • Paper Presentation
    20 min of presentation and 5min of discussion.
  • Poster Presentation
    The poster should be printed out in the classic way or presented as a digital poster with a technical device (you may even provide headphones and audio recordings). There will be poster presentations on three conference days, in which each poster will be briefly presented in one minute.
  • Roundtable
    90 minutes with various shorter presentations of max. 15 minutes and at least 30 minutes in which the audience is involved in the discussion.
  • Symposium
    90 min.
    Option 1: Submit a case report or an analysis of a clinical case. The organising committee will help assemble similar case reports to a symposium.
    Option 2: Submit a full symposium with chair, introduction and case reports.
  • Workshop
    90 min. workshops focus on practical experimentation. Theoretical content should be reduced to the essentials.
  • special interdisciplinary “bridges”-formats (55-90 min)
    55-90 min that can be freely organised. Either through special discussion formats or by inviting colleagues from other disciplines.
Presentation Topics
  • Practice (Autism, Children-Adolescents, Educational Settings, Dementia/ Geriatrics, Family, Neonatology, Neurological rehabilitation, Oncology, Pain, Palliative care and hospice, Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, Special needs, Trauma, Other)
  • Training (Autism, Children-Adolescents, Educational Settings, Dementia/ Geriatrics, Family, Neonatology, Neurological rehabilitation, Oncology, Pain, Palliative care and hospice, Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, Special needs, Trauma, Other)
  • Research (Medical/ Psychotherapy knowledge, Methodology, Music/ Improvisation, Praxeology, Reflection/ Self-awareness, Research, Receptive music therapy, Theory, Other)
  • Theory (Antroposophical, Behavioral, Community based, Ethnological, Humanistic, Metatheory, Models/Concepts, Psychodynamic, Systemic, Other)
Acceptance and Notification

Abstract submission ends September 15th 2024 (11:59 pm CEST), after which all submitted abstracts will be subjected to blind peer-review by the Scientific Committee and coordinated and scheduled by the organising committee

Following the peer review process, the inclusion of papers in the conference programme will be decided, based on the above criteria for review by the Scientific Committee.

Submitters will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their paper by email by 10th January 2025. Before submitting an abstract, it is not necessary to register for the conference itself. All presenters whose abstracts have been accepted must register for the entire conference before early bird registration closes on 31st March 2025.

In order to ensure a balanced programme, the conference organisers may suggest that a presentation be assigned to a different type of presentation than the one originally submitted. Presenters will be informed by e-mail if necessary.

Ethical guidelines for conference contributions

It is essential that the European Music Therapy Conference adhere to the standards of good ethical and scientific practice. Respect for person’s rights and human dignity must be present in all conference contributions in relation to material or individuals. This applies not least to the use of clinical audio or video material. We kindly ask all presenters to respect The Ethical Code of the European Music Therapy Confederation.

Abstract Submission Instruction

Online Submission Guide

Step 1: Set up an account

Click on the Link below to set up an account on our abstract submission platform. Please make sure, that your e-mail address is correct. All notifications related to abstract submission will be sent to the e-mail address used for signing up.

If you sign in for the first time, please click on "Create new account". If an account already exists for your e-mail address, log in with your e-mail address and password. Once you set up  an account, you will receive an e-mail to confirm the account. Please check your e-mail to activate your account.

You can use your login details to access the abstract submission platform at any time and submit further abstracts or complete abstracts you have already started.

Create your account here

Step 2: Submit your abstract

After activating your account, please click the link below to fill out the submission form.

Authors

  • Please fill in the full name of the authors.
  • The following contact details are requested as part of the submission: name, e-mail address, affiliation(s), city and country.
  • Please indicate the main presenter as well as the main author.

Anonymity

Please enter the abstract title, authors and their affiliations separately in the system during submission. Due to the anonymous evaluation, the Word document with the abstract text is not allowed to contain any references to the names of the authors and their affiliations.

Language

All abstracts should be submitted and presented in English.

Structure and Content

  • Length for abstracts: max. 250 words.
  • Only use the template (Word document, font: Arial, font size: 11, no indentation, no spacing) for the submission. You can download the template here or in the submission system. Delete the notes marked in red and the templates that you do not need from the Word template before uploading the abstract.
  • The use of special text formatting in the title or content of the abstract should be used sparingly. It cannot be guaranteed that all formatting will be displayed correctly in all output media.

Publication

Please indicate during the abstract submission whether or not you agree to the publication of the abstract in the official congress publications.

Once you have entered all the information about your abstract in the system, you can complete the submission by clicking the "Submit" button.

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Step 3: Confirmation of submission

  • After you have submitted the abstract, both you and all other authors will receive a confirmation by e-mail. Please contact us if you do not receive the confirmation that your abstract has been submitted. (The confirmation e-mail may end up in your spam folder. Please also check there.)
    If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail, please contact us at KUKM.

Kongress- und Kulturmanagement GmbH
Antonia Krey
Phone: +49 3643 2468-139
E-Mail: emtc2025@kukm.de

  • You will also receive the abstract ID with the confirmation of submission. From then on, please quote the ID in all correspondence.
  • The abstract text is also attached to the confirmation of submission. We recommend that you proofread the abstract again, as the abstract will be published as submitted. Any errors in spelling or grammar will therefore also appear in the programme and in the abstract volume.

Step 4: Changes

Please do not submit multiple copies of the same abstract. Even if the abstract has already been submitted, you can log back into the system at any time until the submission deadline September 30th 2024 (11:59 pm CEST) and make changes (title, authors and affiliations, abstract text) to your abstract.

Timeline

Call for submission opens

  • June 15, 2024

Deadline for abstract submission

  • September 30, 2024

Registration opens

  • November 2024

Notification of acceptance or rejection

  • January 10, 2025

Deadline for Early bird Rates

  • March 31, 2025

Congress Dates

  • July 23-27, 2025