Welcome to our conference! You will find all necessary instructions—ranging from guidelines for manuscript preparation to details about the submission process—in the dedicated subpages. We appreciate your interest and look forward to reviewing your contributions.

Thank you for your cooperation!

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Academic Committee invites researchers in Didactics of Biology/Biology Education to participate in the 15th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology (ERIDOB 2026), ERIDOB aims to bring together researchers in didactics of Biology from around the world to share and discuss their research work and results.

The title of the conference is Biology Education Paving the Way for Our Common Future. The conference welcomes submissions from all pertinent areas of biology education research.

IMPORTANT: Proposal submissions for ERIDOB 2026 must be made online through the eridob2026 conference management system.


Contributions should fit into one or two of the following strands within Biology Education:

  1. Sustainability Education (including Environmental and Health Education)
  2. Outdoor and Informal Education
  3. Scientific Thinking, Scientific Explanations, Scientific Inquiry and NOS
  4. Socioscientific Issues (including Social, Cultural, and Diversity Issues)
  5. Students’ Conceptions and Conceptual Change
  6. Students’ Values, Attitudes and Decision-Making
  7. Teaching Strategies, Learning Environments and Digital Media
  8. Writing, Speaking, Reading and Argumentation
  9. Teacher Professionalization and PCK

DEADLINES

Call for paper & opening of submission platformMay 15, 2025
Final submission deadlineNovember 2, 2025 (23:59 PM)
Notification of review resultsFebruary 28, 2026
Beginning of early-bird registrationMarch 1, 2026
End of early-bird registrationApril 15, 2026
End of registrationMay 31, 2026

Proposals received after November 2, 2025 will not be considered.

Proposals will be reviewed under the following criteria:

• Research: Is the proposal concerned with research in biology education?
• Subject / problem: What is the research problem or question? What is the rationale for the study? What is the theoretical framework?
• Design and methodology: What is the design of the study? Are the research methods clearly described and appropriate?
• Data analysis and findings: Are the data clearly presented? Is there consistency between data and findings?
• General interest: Is the contribution of interest to European researchers in the field.

The standards, in terms of quality, will be the same for oral and poster presentations. The following criteria will be applied:

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Work may be under development.
• Findings may be tentative or not yet available.
•. Content should be of high interest and/or relevance.
•  Specific content should not have been presented or published elsewhere.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS (including a presentation in a symposium)

• Work to be presented should be reaching completion or be complete and well thought through.
• Data should be available.
• Content should be of high interest and/or relevance.
• Specific content should not have been presented or published elsewhere.

Some important rules to keep in mind

  1. No participant may submit more than one first-authored paper. The first author is assumed to present the paper unless otherwise stated.
  2. No participant may present more than once during the conference.
  3. The first authors/contact persons of accepted proposals will receive the ERIDOB conference guidelines for papers and the registration form.
  4. Please note that only proposals that on the moment of submission have not been published elsewhere are eligible. The academic committee must be notified if a paper submitted to the conference has also been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.
  5. The conference language is English.

ERIDOB ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

  • Jelle Boeve-de Pauw, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Marcus Hammann, Münster University, Germany (Chair)
  • Michal Haskel-Ittah, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  • Olivier Morin, University of Lyon, France
  • Daniel Olsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
  • Xana Sá-Pinto, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Gregor Torkar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Dr. Michal Zion, Bar-Ilan University, Israel