We invite authors to submit posters detailing innovative concepts, groundbreaking results, and real-world applications within the following tracks:

• Track 1: Health, Biomedical Sciences, and National Health System Strengthening
• Track 2: Medicinal Plants, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• Track 3: Engineering and Technology for Food Security
• Track 4: Leisure, Environment, Natural Resources, and Climate Change
• Track 5: Education and Digital Transformation
• Track 6: Culture, Identity, Heritage, and Social Dynamics in Africa

Submission Guidelines

1. Scope and Relevance

Authors are encouraged to submit studies that address Angolan national development challenges or demonstrate clear adaptability to such contexts. Successful submissions must explicitly state the work’s relevance to the conference scope, align with one of the three conference tracks, and address a specific concern within the Angolan development framework.

2. Evaluation Criteria and Originality

Submissions will be evaluated based on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Works should not necessarily to be original in terms of unpublished nor currently under review by any other publication or conference.

3. Anonymization (Double-Blind Review)

This conference employs a double-blind review process. Authors must make a good-faith effort to anonymize their manuscripts by removing all personal identifiers, including names, affiliations, and acknowledgments that might reveal their identity.

4. Language and Format

• • A poster scale model is a project and may be submitted in either English(preferred) or Portuguese
  • Presentations: The presentation itself may be delivered in both languages.
  • Templates : Participants are required to align their posters with on of the two official templates, avalable here. While it is up to the authors to propose a classic academic structure, the template primarily serves to define the visual and formatting boundaries of the presentation;
  • File Format: All the poster projects must be submitted in PDF format, A4 size. The authors of the accepted projects will be invited to finalize it and print in, vinyl material, 90 *120 cm, with any additional elements to be instructed before the event.

5. Selection and Publication

• • Poster Presentations: The top 4 projects per track.
  • Proceedings: Abstracts of all accepted projects will be included in the official conference proceedings.

6. Ethics and AI Policy

• • Human Subjects: Studies involving human subjects or non-public personal data must describe the ethical protocols followed and indicate whether the work received Institutional Review Board (IRB) or ethics committee approval.
  • AI Usage: The use of Generative AI is permitted only when it complies with established ethical standards. However, the detection of excessive use of generative AI, even for translation purposes, will result in immediate disqualification.

Poster submissions: April 6 to July 30, 23:59-Luanda Time (via this OJS platform)