Registration
The ECSS Organising Team is looking forward to welcoming you to this year's summit. Come and join us in this exciting and remarkable event in the field of Informatics!
Please note that there is a limited number of travel grants for early-career researchers. ECSS2021 participants can apply for them by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. More details on the requirements can be found here.
Registration Fees
In-person participation:
The registration fee of the ECSS 2021 (25-27 October) covers:
- Participation in all activities of the Summit
- Coffee breaks, lunches
- Conference Welcome Reception on Monday, 25 October*
- Conference Dinner on Tuesday, 26 October*
- Conference materials
The registration for the Professional Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers (ONLY), covers coffee break, lunch, and Welcome Reception on Monday, 25 October.
Virtual participation:
The registration fee of the ECSS 2021 (25-27 October) respectively the Early Career Researchers Workshop ONLY (25 October) covers: online access to all live sessions (social activities excluded), respectively selected workshop sessions ONLY, with the possibility to ask questions and virtually join break-out groups.
Prices, depending if in-person or virtual attendance**
ECSS 2021 Normal Registration :
- € 575,00 in-person / € 475,00 virtual participant (Member of Informatics Europe)
- € 675,00 in-person / € 575,00 virtual participant (Non-Member)
- € 350,00 in-person / € 250,00 virtual participant (PhDs and PostDocs
Early Career Researchers Workshop (ONLY)
- € 60 in-person / € 50 virtual participant
The online registration system will close on Friday, October 22. Last-minute registrations will be possible on-site, paid only by credit card and with an admin. charge of 25 EUR per registration.
Special considerations:
The ease of covid restrictions in Madrid as from early October, allow us to offer spouses the possibility to join the official dinner on Tuesday for a fee of 100EUR (incl. transport). Please book through This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Spanish participants are granted a 50 EUR discount on the ECSS fee (all except PhDs & PostDocs). As co-organizers, CODDII representatives are granted the ECSS price for IE Spanish members.
Members of the EUGAIN Cost Action will see the ECSS fee reduced by the costs related to the WIRE-EUGAIN workshop (covered by the Action).
Participants from institutions that are not yet members of Informatics Europe can profit from a special offer. See more details here.
20 grants of 150 EUR each are made available to subsidize the travel costs of PhDs and PostDocs with budget restrictions.
Should official (COVID) restrictions band the physical part of ECSS 2021 in Madrid, all in-person tickets will automatically become virtual and participants be reimbursed 100 EUR. The same measure should apply to individual participants not able to travel to Madrid due to governmental restrictions in their country of origin and/or Spain. As of October 15, only NEW measures will be considered.
Converting virtual to in-person registration and vice-versa is possible until Oct 15. Thereafter online changes resulting from last-minute new official restriction measures will be considered (see above).
* Spouses welcome, but not included in the registration fee.
** Where applicable, VAT will be added when registering. Please note that the amount of the bank transfer will have to include any bank fee related to the transfer and/or processing.