Announcements

We are pleased to announce that the The 1st International Electronic Conference on Animals—Global Sustainability and Animals: Science, Ethics and Policy (IECA-2020), chaired by Professor Clive J. C. Phillips, will be postponed to 05 - 20 December 2020 at Sciforum (https://ieca2020.sciforum.net/). Please also join our Webinar: IECA 2020 Opening Ceremony on Monday, November 2 at 14:00 CET. You can register here 

These are Sessions that we expect to cover:

A.Climate change and sustainability of animal systems;
B. Sustainability of animal use and demand for animal products;
C. Animal welfare, ethics, policy and politics;
D. Animal health and sustainability;
E. Sustainable animal feeding.

The conference will be completely free of charge—both to attend, and for scholars to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. There will also be a possibility to submit selected papers to the e-conference related Special Issue of the journal Animals (ISSN 2076-2615; Impact Factor: 2.323 (2019)), with a 20% discount on the APC. IECA 2020 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without the concerns and expense of traveling—all you need is access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to attend this conference by presenting your latest work.

Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 20 November 2020 online at https://ieca2020.sciforum.net/. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 30 November 2020. The conference itself will be held on 5–20 December 2020.

We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. IECA 2020 is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open-access publisher based in Basel, Switzerland.

Paper Submission Guidelines

For information about the submission procedure and preparation of a full presentation, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors".

Time Schedule

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 November 2020
• Notification of Acceptance: 25 November 2020
• Proceedings Paper Submission Deadline: 30 November 2020
• Conference Date: 5–20 December 2020

For more information on ICMA 2020, please visit the conference website (https://ieca2020.sciforum.net/) or contact us by email ([email protected]).