Born in the wake of the successful and well-established experience of the “Sardinia International Symposia on Waste Management and Landfill”, which are ranked at the top of the lists of international events in the sector throughout the world and register an average participation of 1000 delegates, the more recent Venice Symposia have been taking place every two years since 2006 and have now, in 2012, reached their fourth edition.
The Fourth edition of the Venice International Symposia on Energy from Biomass and Waste will take place from 12-15 November, in Venice, Italy.
The event is organized by the International Waste Working Group (IWWG) with the scientific support of the Universities of Dresden (DE), Hokkaido (JP), Padua (IT), Rostock (DE), Singapore (SG) and Trento (IT).
As per tradition, the Symposium will last four days (three days of scientific sessions and one day for technical tours) and will include oral sessions, a poster session, an exhibition by companies working in the field and technical tours.
The official language of the Symposium will be English. In addition, the Symposium will arrange a session to be held entirely in Italian, in order to facilitate the participation of local delegates.


Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: 29 February 2012

An extended abstract (at least one but no more than two full pages) prepared using the abstract template available on the official symposium website should reach the Organization no later than February 29th 2012. Abstracts should be submitted online.
The abstract must clearly describe the content of the presentation and its basis (detailed case study, discussion of experience from practice, preliminary research data, completed research not presented previously, review of literature, administrative initiatives and regulations, etc). Abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentation; offers of papers for workshops are also welcome.
Each Leading Author may submit no more than three abstracts.
Abstracts will be selected following evaluation by an international panel of referees. Acceptance of abstracts will be notified to the Leading Author no later than March 31st 2012.
Full papers should be addressed to the Organizers and received no later than 30th June 2012. Final papers will be checked by the Executive Programme Committee and papers of inadequate quality will be removed from the Symposium Programme.
Authors will also be requested to submit their PowerPoint presentations no later than 31st October 2012.
All papers accepted for presentation at the Symposium will be published in Proceedings available at the start of the Symposium.