About the EMAC conference

The EMAC annual conference is the most significant user benefit of membership and the highlight of the EMAC calendar. It serves to create a major focus for exchange of ideas, dissemination of research findings and discussion of work in progress, as well as being an opportunity for catching up with old friends and networking with new colleagues.

The conference is a partnership between the EMAC and the host institution. Both will wish to see the conference achieve its full potential for the benefit of all. To ensure that EMAC traditions, custom and practices are carried forward year to year, the EMAC executive committee has developed and approved detailed conference guidelines. The purpose of these notes is to share the knowledge gained over many conferences with new conference hosts, and thus specifies principles of organisation and practical matters. It is a living document, which is amended continuously when new experiences arise.

Each host institution receives the guidelines upon acceptance of their proposal to host the annual conference. It is EMAC policy that the host institution has the responsibility to implement these guidelines. The conference guidelines are incorporated in a “memorandum of agreement” currently under drafting that will be signed in the future detailing the roles and responsibilities of both EMAC and the Conference Organisers.

The current version of the EMAC conference guidelines can be downloaded here.