2025 Annual SRNT-E Conference

10th - 12th Sep 2025

Important Dates for Abstract and Symposia Submissions

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Abstract submissions for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)-Europe’s 2025 conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania are open from 27 January, 2025. The submission system for abstracts has been extended and will close on Sunday 13th April, at 11:59 p.m. Central European time.

The SRNT-E 2025 Annual Meeting is shaping up to be a fantastic event! This meeting will be an in-person only event, at the historic Grand Hotel Napoca.

We encourage submission of abstracts describing cutting-edge research in nicotine and tobacco. The overarching theme of the 2025 SRNT-E conference is “Navigating Inequities in the Evolving Nicotine and Tobacco Landscape”. Abstracts should summarize empirical research findings that have not been published or presented elsewhere before the meeting. All abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scientific merit by peer review.

Please note that employees of commercial tobacco manufacturers or their wholly or partially owned subsidiaries may not submit research for presentation at the SRNT Europe Meeting.

The SRNT-E Program Committee will make decisions regarding the acceptance of submissions with notifications being sent in early June.

Instructions for Authors

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Abstract submissions are open from 27 January 2025 until 13 April, 11:59 p.m. Central European time (extended deadline).

Submission steps

Oral, Poster & Workshops

  • Create an “EasyAcademia” account through easyacademia.org.  
  • Activate your account by clicking on the activation link sent to your email.

Note: Please check your Spam folder if you have not received the email within a few minutes.

  • Log into https://www.easyacademia.org/srnte2025, using the login details you provided at the beginning.
  • Click on Start a new submission on the top right to enter the submission process.
  • Select an appropriate track from the list.
  • Select the format you wish your submission to be considered for. 
  • Enter the appropriate information in the Title step.
  • Enter your Abstract text (350 words) in the following step.
  • Under Authors please input details for each author of the paper. At least one author must be marked for each type of role available (presenter, corresponding). The rest of the co-authors can be listed without role.

Note: Only authors marked as correspondents (and the presenter) will receive updates and information regarding the submission.

  • Under Summary you may check the details of the submission. If you wish to go back to a section in order to change details, just click on the appropriate step on the left.
  • If you are happy with the summary information, please click on Submit Now to finalize the process. A notification e-mail will be sent to the correspondents.


Rapid response submissions

The system for submission of rapid response abstracts will open in June 2025. The deadline for submitting a rapid response abstract will be in July 2025. Further details on how to submit to follow. Rapid response abstracts will only be considered as poster only submission.


For Symposia

Selected symposia examine important issues from a variety of perspectives and have compelling supporting data. Over a 75-minute period, three or four speakers and a discussant present and/or debate alternative solutions, interpretations, or points of view on a body of knowledge. Please note that symposia submissions are reviewed competitively and that not all symposia proposals will be included in the final program. Preference will be given to symposia that are especially timely, involve various research groups, or span a range of disciplines around the same topic.

The symposium convenor must submit the symposium details, a symposium overview abstract following the below steps:

Submission steps

• Create an “EasyAcademia” account through www.easyacademia.org  

• Activate your account by clicking on the activation link sent to your email.

Note: Please check your Spam folder if you have not received the email within a few minutes.

• Log into https://www.easyacademia.org/srnte2025, using the login details you provided at the beginning.

• Click on Start a new submission on the top right to enter the submission process.

• Select an appropriate track from the list.

• Select the format “Symposium Overview”

• Enter the appropriate information in the Title step.

• Enter your Abstract text (350 words) in the following step.

Under Authors please input details of the convenor and each paper’s presenter.

At least one author must be marked for each type of role available (presenter, corresponding). The rest of the co-authors can be listed without role.

Note: Only authors marked as correspondents (and the presenter) will receive updates and information regarding the submission.

• Under Summary you may check the details of the submission. If you wish to go back to a section in order to change details, just click on the appropriate step on the left.

• If you are happy with the summary information, please click on Submit Now to finalize the process. A notification e-mail will be sent to the correspondents.

Following this submission the submission system will automatically email the authors named in the symposium details as responsible for each symposium paper a code for the symposium. These authors should then submit their respective papers, following the instructions for symposium papers listed below. To do so, they must use the code which they have received from the system to link their submission to the symposium. 

Please note that the symposium overview abstract and all individual oral presentation abstract in the symposium must be submitted to the same track.


Guidance on industry attendance and submission

SRNT defines the tobacco industry as any company that manufactures/distributes combustible tobacco products and any company or organisation that is a wholly or partially owned subsidiary. Tobacco industry employees and employees of wholly or partially owned subsidiaries are not allowed to attend or present. Employees from companies whose intellectual property is owned fully or partially by the tobacco industry are also not permitted to attend or present at SRNT. E-cigarette and other nicotine product companies not affiliated with the tobacco industry are not defined as part of the tobacco industry. Consultants are allowed to present and attend. If they are presenting research they must disclose funding sources.

Prizes

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Abstract Prize

A prize will be awarded at the SRNT-E 2025 conference for the highest scoring abstract.

Poster Prize

There will also be two poster prizes, judged by the keynote speakers. These will be:

  1. The Mateusz Zatoński poster prize for an early career researcher demonstrating research excellence. This poster prize is awarded in memory of Mateusz Zatoński who sadly died in January 2022. Mateusz was a highly talented and well-respected tobacco control and public health researcher, an exceptional colleague and a wonderful person.
  2. The best overall poster prize, open to presenters at all career stages.


Travel Awards 

Four merit-based awards will be available to support participation in the SRNT-E 2025 conference in Romania.

  • Two will be awarded to SRNT-E members, with no restrictions on their location.
  • Two will be awarded to researchers from Europe specifically; it is not essential to be a current SRNT-E member to apply for these awards.

Across all the four awards, priority will be given to early career researchers (i.e., those who are still studying or who received their highest degree after April 2018) and those predominantly currently working and living in low- and middle-income countries (as defined here).

The awards will include 1,000 Euros to cover travel and accommodation costs and free registration to the conference and conference dinner. Applicants must be presenting at the meeting (either oral or poster presentation).

How to apply

To apply, please submit a letter of motivation (maximum 500 words), a letter of recommendation from a professional colleague who is familiar with your work (maximum 500 words), a short curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages), and a copy of your submitted abstract to the SRNT-E Board (c/o Stephanie Klosterhalfen) via email (stephanie.klosterhalfen@med.uni-duesseldorf.de) by 17:00 CET (10 July 2025). Please write “SRNT-E 2025 Travel Award” in the subject header of the email message.

 Note: as applicants will not be notified about the outcome of their application until after the early bird deadline for conference registration, we will honour the reduced registration fee for those applicants who apply for an early career travel award but who are unsuccessful. Successful applicants will receive free registration. Therefore, if you are applying for an early career travel award, please do not register for the conference until after you have been notified about the outcome of your travel award.