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How to Create an Abstract

• Please have a look again at the Emphases of the Conference and notice specific recommendatios given by the refrees.
  
• With submitting of the abstract you are committed to give a presentation at the conference and to write a paper for the conference proceedings (latest 2008-02-01), if your abstract has been accepted by the scientific board of the 10th Conference on Passive Houses. The person giving the oral presentation will only pay a reduced participation fee of 155 Euro (Speaker and member of IG Passive House 125 Euro). The reduced fee is only valid for one person each accepted presentation.
  

Presentation - Tips

• The title must be short and precise and characterise the issue to be presented. In general the title of the abstract should be used.

• The contents of the issue must be interesting for the participants of the Passive House conference.

• The topic, the essential methods, the execution and the results must be clear from the presentation. All information, which may be of significance for accepting the contribution, must be included in the presentation.

• You will receive a confirmation of receipt for your paper per e-mail.

• The status of the treated facts must be clearly visible: If it concerns a planning, a building report, an inspection after moving into a building, a measurement data evaluation, a survey, a literature research,... If certain objects (building, systems) crop up in the Abstract, it is also to be made clear whether these objects are in planning, in construction, completed, restored.

• In case of buildings or systems it is also useful to enclose drawings or photos with the Abstract; the scope of which should not exceed 1 MB. Not suitable are brochures and advertising materials.

• Tip: Ask yourself when writing your contribution, which benefit a participant can gain from presentation: Exemplary execution? Planning assistance? Building experience? User experience? Avoidance of errors? The more useful your contribution is for solving tasks which appear frequently, the higher the value of your contribution.

• Tip: Place special importance on the conclusions from your contribution.

• Tip: Above all state concretely what you have to say about the issue - and less what you wish to criticise about others.

• Contributions, which contain statements which infringe the law, are insulting or derogative, will be rejected without a further statement. Neither may contributions contain any product and company advertisements (advertising is reserved for the specialist fair and the advertisement section of the conference volume). Abstracts or contributions, which contain a frequent mentions of a certain product or a certain offer or an institution, can be rejected

With the submission of an Abstract the person submitting undertakes in case of acceptance of the contribution by the conference advisory council:

1. To speak about this contribution in the allocated working group as speaker at the 12th Passive House Conference.
2. To register (after acceptance of the contribution) at the conditions for speakers at the 12th Passive House conference (participation fee for speakers: 155 Euro, Speaker and member of IG Passive House 125 Euro). This reduced participation fee for speakers always applies only for one person per accepted contribution.
3. To create a written contribution with maximum scope of 6 pages according to the format template and to make available in an electronic form by no later than 2008-02-01 for the conference volume. The speaker grants the PHI a publication right fort his contribution for the conference volume and for the Internet page of the conference and guarantees that the contribution is free of rights of third parties.
4. To accept the decisions of the conference advisory council by excluding recourse to law .

Experience has shown that there are more submissions than time available for oral presentations at the conference. Accepted contributions can be allowed to give a presentation as posters. Two pages are available in the conference volume for poster contributions; one author each per contribution can participate in the conference at the reduced fee (poster contribution) of 298 Euro (IG members 268 Euro).

The reduced participation fees for speakers and poster contributions enable the accepted submittors to participate on both days of the conference. A further reduction for the participation on just one day is not possible.

The scientific conference advisory board will decide the programme in November 2007. The members of the advisory board are:

Roland Digel, Osnabrück (DE)
Wolfgang Feist, Darmstadt (DE)
Robert Hastings, Wallisellen (CH)
Peter Holzer, Krems (AT)
Henk Kaan, Petten (NL)
Helmut Krapmeier, Dornbirn (AT)
Harald Krause, Rosenheim (DE)
Rainer Pfluger, Darmstadt (DE)
Burkhard Schulze Darup, Nürnberg (DE)
Rolf-Peter Strauß, Bremen (DE)
Mark Zimmermann, Dübendorf (CH)

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