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SCS 8th Annual Meeting
THE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM FROM 1ST APRIL UNTIL july 1st 2025 AT 23:59 HOURS CET
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Scientific Committee of the 8th Annual Conference of the Strength and Conditioning Society (SCS) invites all participants to submit scientific communications.
The deadline for the submission of scientific abstracts is July 1st, 2025.
The abstracts will be evaluated by the SCS Scientific Committee.
The abstract submission and registration opening is 1st April 2025.
The abstract submission deadline is July 1st 2025.
The end of super early bird registration is 31st May 2025.
The notification to authors about acceptance is 31st July 2025.
The end of early bird registration is 30th June 2025 & deadline for registration for presenting authors is 15th August 2025
The selected abstracts will be published in Sports Journal, all the abstract will be presented at the conference as poster or oral communication.
For more info you can download the abstracts guidelines here. Download the abstracts guidelines
Topics
Abstract submission guidelines
Each author must choose an area among the following under which to submit their abstract:
– Strength & conditioning in team-sports.
– Strength, power and speed training.
– Neuromuscular basis of strength & conditioning.
– Strength & conditioning in the different ages of life.
– Injury prevention and return-to-play
– Biomechanics and motion analysis.
– Exercise physiology.
– Biochemistry and molecular biology of exercise.
– Clinical exercise physiology: exercise & health.
– Training and testing.
Language: English or Spanish, but only those written in English will be published in Sports Journal,
Maximum Length: 400 words as indicated in the Sports model document.
Maximum number of references: 4 bibliographic references as indicated in the Sports model document. Abstracts NOT complying with this requirement will NOT BE taken into consideration.
Each presenting or submitting author may submit no more than 2 abstracts.
Abstract must be submitted as text only documents (no tabs, images or graphics allowed).
How to proceed
– Carefully read the requirements and conference topics.
– Download the abstract template. Follow the standard Sports template – download the document.
– Insert your abstract text, as required.
– Fill-out the submission form with your information as well as including that of the co-authors. You will need to identify who will be the “presenting author”, which will be underlined in the program.
– Select one of the proposed topic areas.
– Select the type of presentation (poster or oral communication).
– Select if you would like your abstract to be evaluated for one of the awards (SCS Young Investigator (YIA), SCS Applied Science Awards (ASA). See below for more detail.
– Upload your abstract in the selected field and finalize the procedure.
– After submission you will receive a confirmation email with username and password that you may use to review your submission as well as to modify it within the deadline. Once the deadline has passed, abstracts can no longer be modified by the authors.
– Once your abstract is evaluated, you will receive confirmation by email.
– To be granted access to the Conference and the Abstract Publication in the Official Journal of the SCS, Sports Journal, you will need to finalize your registration by August 15th, and it should be in English language.
Awards
SCS Young Investigator Award (YIA) Requirements:
✓ Presenter and submitter must be the same person and under 30 years of age.
✓ For YIA presentation, English language is mandatory.
✓ Candidates will be evaluated on creativity, effort, attention to scientific detail, and presentation skills during the poster sessions.
✓ Three finalists will present their works in an oral communication session for 8 minutes on Friday. This election will be done on Thursday by the SCS Awards Committee based on the quality of the oral communications presented on Wednesday.
✓ The SCS Awards Committee will take into consideration the similarity between the submitted abstract and the oral communication presented.
✓ Sixteen semi-finalists will present their works in an oral communication session for 8 minutes on the Wednesday (you will need to make a short Powerpoint presentation for the oral communication session). All YIA candidates that do not meet the minimum criteria will present their abstracts as poster.
SCS Applied Science Award (ASA) Requirements:
✓ Candidates will be evaluated on creativity, effort, and applicability to sport, coaches or athletes.
✓ For ASA presentation, English language is mandatory.
✓ Three finalists will present theirs works in an oral communication session for 8 minutes on Friday. This election will be done on Thursday by the SCS Awards Committee based on the quality of the poster presentations by the SCS Awards Committee.
✓ The SCS Awards Committee will take into consideration the similarity between the submitted abstract and the poster presentation.
✓ Sixteen semi-finalists will present their works in an oral communication session for 8 minutes on Thursday (you will need to make a short Powerpoint presentation for the oral communication session). All ASA candidates that do not meet the minimum criteria will present their abstracts as poster.
Winners will be presented during the Award Ceremony and will receive an award certification, free registration to the next SCS Meeting, and a free 1-year SCS Membership.
Enquiries can be sent to: research@beautiful-pare.89-248-100-74.plesk.page.