Porto ICRE’26 invites the submission of abstracts until March 11 2026. This conference includes spaces open to the submission of research works in the form of posters, oral communications, and panels/symposia. Proposals must fall within one of the following themes: (a) Teacher Education and Professional Development; (b) Special Education and Inclusive Pedagogy; (c) Social Challenges, Culture and Education.
Submissions must be made through the website in English, Portuguese, or Spanish.
Each participant will be limited to three submissions in the category of individual oral communication, either as first author or co-author. Posters and panel/symposia presentations are not included in this count.
A registered author may take on the role of Session Chair/Moderator. The moderation of panels/symposia must be ensured by the person who coordinates and submits the panel/symposia proposal.
Please, before submitting an abstract, check below the instructions provided for each type of presentation.
Attention: reviewers’ comments must be taken into consideration when preparing the presentation and, eventually, when preparing final texts (if applicable). There is no need to submit a new abstract and/or modify the one submitted.
For each accepted submission, at least one author must register for the Conference in order for it to be accepted into the program.
Registration is mandatory for the (co)author presenting the proposal, as well as for all persons wishing to participate in the Conference, regardless of whether they are attending in person or online.
Will take place exclusively on July 21, 2026.
These will take place exclusively on July 22, 23, and 24, 2026.
- Maximum Number of Words: 500 (excluding references). Indicate 3 to 5 keywords.
- Maximum number of abstracts per author: 3 for the category of Individual Oral Presentation, as first author or co-author. Posters and panels/symposia are not counted within this limit.
- Languages for submission and presentation: Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, or English.
- Formatting: formatting is automatically handled by the submission platform.
- The review process is “blind”, therefore it is not necessary to include a CV in the abstract submission. Author information is not revealed at any stage of the review process.
- Types of Presentation: Poster, Individual Oral Presentation, or Panel/symposia. You must choose the suggested type of presentation at the time of submission.
IMPORTANT: the final decision regarding the type of presentation rests with the ICRE review team. After receiving the email confirming the acceptance of the abstract, you should consult your personal area on the website to check the final presentation type.
Panels give researchers the opportunity to present research on a specific topic, bringing together a coherent group of papers.
Please note that a panel/symposia must:
- include a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 papers, each with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references, and 3 to 5 keywords;
- involve researchers from at least two different countries.
Panel proposals must be submitted by the Coordinator of the working group.
See below the detailed steps for panel submission:
1 | The Coordinator must create an account or LOG IN and, in the left-hand menu of the personal area, select the “Abstracts” tab and then the “Panels” option. Click “Add panel”.
2 | At this stage, the Coordinator must complete all fields, taking into account the following:
3 | After the panel submission, the authors indicated in the previous step must access their personal area, select the “Abstracts” tab in the side menu, then the “Panels” option, and access the “Related” tab. A block with the information of the submitted panel will be available, along with the option “Submit abstract”. Select this option.
4 | When submitting an abstract within the panel, the other authors of the abstract can now be indicated in the members section. At this stage, these authors do not need to have an account created. Each abstract within the panel must have a maximum of 500 words.
Accepted abstracts will be published in the ICRE Book of Abstracts.
Individual oral presentations should include empirical research with corresponding results and discussion, meta-analyses, or systematic reviews. Oral presentations will be organised into thematic sessions, lasting 90 minutes, which will include four presentations of 15 minutes each, on similar topics, followed by a discussion at the end of the four presentations.
We remind participants that each participant will be limited to three submissions in the category of Individual Oral Presentation, either as first author or co-author.
Online presentations will take place exclusively on July 21. In this case, authors must be registered in the Online modality and must submit a PDF presentation file in their personal area of the website. Online presentations will take place in real time, via the Congress platform.
The presentation may be delivered in Portuguese, English, or Spanish.
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Posters are graphical presentations displayed exclusively online during the ICRE.
Posters must be submitted in the personal area of the author who submitted the associated abstract, together with the abstract information, under the “Presentation files” tab.
The file must be in PDF format. In addition to the poster file, authors may submit an audio and/or video presentation file of up to 5 minutes, in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. The files must be submitted in the personal area of the website.
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Panel sessions last 90 minutes, with each paper being presented in up to 15 minutes.
Panel moderation must be ensured by the Panel Coordinator.
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