The Committee of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) is interested to hear from bidders who wish to organise the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025) in a European country. This will be the 47th edition of the conference.

ECIR 2024 is to be held in Glasgow, Scotland. Recent ECIR events have been held in Dublin, Ireland 2023; Stavanger, Norway 2022; Lucca, Italy, 2021 (online); Lisbon, Portugal, 2020 (online); Cologne, Germany, 2019; Grenoble, France, 2018; Aberdeen, UK, 2017; Padua, Italy, 2016; Vienna, Austria, 2015; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2014; Moscow, Russia, 2013; and Barcelona, Spain, 2012.

Details of the bidding process

Call for bids: ECIR 2025 (PDF)
ECIR budget template (XLS)

Deadline for ECIR 2025 proposal: Midnight UTC Friday 25 August 2023.

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