Abstracts submitted to the symposium must be original and must not have been previously published or presented at another scientific event.

Submitted abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee in terms of scientific content, methodology, and original contribution; accepted abstracts will be announced. Full texts of accepted abstracts will be presented orally at the congress.

Following the presentations, full texts of papers deemed to be of high scientific quality by the Scientific Committee will be requested from the corresponding authors. These selected papers will be sent to the journals listed below for evaluation. However, the fact that a paper has been presented at the congress and forwarded to the relevant journals does not automatically guarantee its publication. Whether or not the papers will be published will be determined by the editorial and peer-review processes of the respective journals.

A maximum of 5 papers will be proposed for each journal.

• Sakarya University Journal of Science: Publication language is English. It is indexed in the Turkish Index (TR Dizin).

• Journal of Natural Disasters and Environment: Published in Turkish and English. Indexed in TR Dizin.

• Kocaeli University Journal of Science: Publication language is Turkish.

• Şura Academy Journal of Urban Studies: Publication languages ​​are Turkish and English. It is an international peer-reviewed journal of the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Strategy Development Department, Urban Policies and Research Center (ŞURA). A prize of 5000 TL will be awarded for the best paper selected within the scope of the journal.