The International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social and Economic Matters (ICSF) is a peer-reviewed international conference, which is the premier interdisciplinary forum for social scientists, life scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications.

The ICSF occupies contributions in all aspects of sustainable development, focused on the intersection of sustainability, environment and technology, and their larger implications for corporation, government, education institutions, regions and society both at present and in the future.

We invite you to participate in the conference and look forward to fruitful cooperation.

Topics of interest*

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Measuring, Forecasting and Monitoring Sustainability
Sustainable Building and Architecture
Sustainable Cities and Society
Sustainable Energy
Sustainable Environment and Environmental Management
Sustainable Materials and Technologies
Sustainable Mining
Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable Transport

* ICSF focus, but are not limited to the listed topics

Call for Papers

Authors are invited to submit full (and original research) papers (6+ pages) including surveys, tutorials, perspective/colloquia articles in conference topics of interest through the HotCRP (https://notso.easyscience.education/icsf/2021) by December 31, 2019.

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. If necessary, a fourth, additional reviewer will be involved. The Program Committee will use these reviews to determine which papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. The result of the reviewing will be announced to the submitting authors by email, along with reviewer comments, if any.

Accepted papers written in English will be published as a special issue of the E3S Web of Conferences journal (eISSN: 2267-1242 / publisher: EDP Sciences) in two month after conference (https://www.webofconferences.org/e3s-web-of-conferences-forthcoming-conferences).

Due to the promotion of international collaboration of authors and visibility of the conference, we expect that at least 40% of authors will be from outside Ukraine.

Formatting options

ICSF 2021 uses EDP Sciences two column format for the proceedings. Therefore, for preparing your submission please STRICTLY FOLLOW the E3S Web of Conferences Editorial Guidelines (https://www.e3s-conferences.org/doc_journal/woc/e3sconf_editorial_guidelines.pdf) and Microsoft Word guidelines (https://www.e3s-conferences.org/doc_journal/woc/woc_2col.doc). References should use the Springer Physics style, as shown in the 'Key Style Points: References' (https://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Key_Style_Points_PhysRef.pdf).

Paper submission

In case you have never worked with the HotCRP system before, please create HotCRP account it by clicking "Create an account" link at the login form (https://notso.easyscience.education/icsf/2021/newaccount). You will be offered to enter your email and click the 'Create account' button. The instructions for signing in to HotCRP would be sent to your email. After complete registration you should sign in and complete your profile. Please list potential conflicts of interest - we use this information when assigning reviews. At the "New Submission" link of the ICSF 2021 (https://notso.easyscience.education/icsf/2021/paper/new), please fill in the forms as requested by the instructions.


Important Dates

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2020
Notification Due: March 1, 2021
Final Submission Deadline: March 15, 2021
Registration Due: May 7, 2021
Workshop Day: May 19, 2021
Main Conference: May 20-21, 2021

Program Committee: https://icsf.ccjournals.eu/2021/index2.html#committies

The Venue

Kryvyi Rih National University
11, Vitalii Matusevich Str.
Kryvyi Rih, 50027
Ukraine

CONTACTS

Serhii Chukharev, +380675225125, konf.knu@gmail.com
Serhiy Sakhno, +380672694385, budfac@gmail.com
Serhiy Semerikov, semerikov@gmail.com