REGISTRATION FEE

Participants from the Republic of Serbia should pay a Symposium participation of RSD 12,000.00 (for one scientific paper). For authors who wish to submit multiple papers as first authors, the registration fee is RSD 6,000.00 per each additional paper.
For foreign participants, the registration fee is EUR 100 (for one scientific paper). For authors who wish to submit multiple papers as first authors, the registration fee is EUR 50 per each additional paper.
SYMBIOTECH26 gives a discount for every full-time doctoral student: the registration fee is 70 EUR.
Registration fee payment deadline is 06. March 2026.

FEE PAYMENT METHOD

Fee payment should be made to the Faculty of Agronomy’s bank account No. 840-948666-13, Ref. No. 97-78-101122442, indication: 4th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOTECHNOLOGY (31st SYMPOSIUM ON BIOTECHNOLOGY WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION) – fee payment. The paying-in-slip should clearly state the first name and surname of the participant, as well as the name of the institution making the payment.

       For foreign participants, fee payment should be made according to the specifying bellow mentioned steps:

       The registration fee includes:

    Admission to scientific sessions, mini-fair and all workshops,

    Symposium materials (Symposium bag with the Symposium Agenda and Programme),

    An electronic version of the Symposium Proceedings (on flash memory),

    Certificate of Participation - Certificate for authors of invited papers,

    Credentials,

    Lunch on the first day of the Symposium,

    Coffee breaks and refreshments,

    Sightseeing tour.

The registration fee does not include:

Gala dinner - It is necessary to emphasize the presence at the gala dinner during registration process, the price is an additional 25 euros to the value of the registration fee,

• Other lunch and dinner, except lunch on the first day of the SYMBIOTECH26,
• Hotel costs and
• Optional tours.

Substitution Policy

If you cannot attend the SYMBIOTECH26, you can send a colleague, we kindly ask you to inform the president of the Organizing Committee as soon as possible about the name and surname of the substitute participant with the affiliation of the Institution:

Email: pavlem@kg.ac.rs, symbiotech.cacak@gmail.com

Phone: +381 69 358 85 47

Privacy Policy

All information collected is held strictly private and will not be revealed to a third party. If you choose an appropriate box during the online registration process, your name, affiliation, and email address will be added to the List of Participants made available during the SYMBIOTECH26.

Security Statement

All appropriate measures have been taken to secure personal information data by the computer system administrators provided by Symposium attendees. Access to the computing equipment is restricted to authorized personnel only, and the systems are regularly monitored. All communications with the computing equipment involved in SYMBIOTECH26 registration occur over encrypted connections using industry-standard encryption technology.

Plenary and Session Speaker Guidelines

• Invited speakers will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation plus additional 10 minutes dedicated to discussion, and speakers of plenary sessions will be strictly allotted 10 minutes for presentation plus additional 5 minutes for discussion.
• A PC computer provided by the SYMBIOTECH26 will be available in each conference lecture room or amphitheater. Bring your PowerPoint (PPT) presentation on a flash drive and please verify your presentation is compatible with SYMBIOTECH26 PC computer.
• MAC USERS: Please make sure that all inserted pictures are either JPEG or PNG file types. QuickTime files are also an accepted video format.
• If you will use your own PC, it is recommended that you bring the correct display port to VGA video adapter for your particular model.
• Acceptable formats for presentations: PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx), Adobe Acrobat (.pdf).
• Video Formats: The recommended video format for presentations is Windows Media (.wmv).
• PPT embeds image files directly into the file when you save them, while video files are not embedded. Only a link is made to the video file. Copy the video clips you want to insert into the same folder as the PPT file. This will eliminate the problem of PPT losing the link to the file. Be certain to bring the video files and the PPT files to the meeting (it is advisable to have a backup copy).
• Fonts: Confirm a font size of at least 24 points for body text and 36–40 points for headings.
• SYMBIOTECH26 strongly supports undergraduate students and/or young researchers in delivering an oral presentation to demonstrate oral communication competence.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
• Poster sessions are an important component of international scientific meetings and allow a large number of authors to present the results of their thematic research to interested participants and experts in parallel and encourage motivating and inspiring discussions.
• Therefore, we recommend that you present your results clearly in order to attract the attention of people who are potentially interested in your research.
• The content of the research is analyzed for originality, quality of the research idea, methodology and presentation of the results. The poster design and communication skills of the presenter are important for developing discussions, which are mandatory after the audience has gained insight by touring and reviewing the displayed posters.
Poster presentation details
• Location of your poster board number and set-up time will be included in final SYMBIOTECH26 Programme.
• Posters will be displayed on the appropriate vertical supports at the marked places defined in the SYMBIOTECH26 Program. At the reception for the registration of Symposium participants, you can get materials for attaching posters and help from the friendly hostesses (double-sided adhesive tape or pins).
• Your poster may be in maximum size (height x width): 1189 mm x 841 mm.
• We kindly ask the authors that at least one of the groups must attend the poster session!
Instructions to authors for designing and preparing posters for printing
1. The poster must contain the author(s) name(s) and their affiliations.
2. The entire graphic and letter layout must be large enough to be visible at a distance of 1.5 m. Fonts should be 24 point minimum, and the entire text should be written in English.
3. Preferred are next short chapters:
• Title
• Authors
• Summary
• Aim
• Materials and Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
The president of the Organizing Committee will be at your service for all questions and clarifications, do not hesitate to contact him:
Email: pavlem@kg.ac.rs, symbiotech.cacak@gmail.com
Phone: +381 69 358 85 47

Paper title submission deadline: 16 January 2026.
Full papers should be submitted electronically using the template form provided (SYMBIOTECH_Paper_Template_26) to platform or symbiotech.cacak@gmail.com by 20 February 2026 at the latest.

Papers must be prepared and presented in English.
The Paper Template provides detailed manuscript preparation guidelines to be followed by the authors. Only papers written according to the instructions will undergo peer review; otherwise, they will be rejected.
Notification of paper acceptance will be sent by 28 February 2026. After payment of the registration fee, positively reviewed papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 4rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOTECHNOLOGY (31th SYMPOSIUM ON BIOTECHNOLOGY WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION) (М31-M33). The Symposium Proceedings will be assigned both an ISBN and CIP data, and all published papers will receive a DOI number.
We expect about 100 contributions submitted for publication. Each paper will be accurately, timely and objectively reviewed by the peer review pool (competent members of the Symposium's organizational and program committee, domestic and international reviewers), with an assessment of the quality of the English language in which the papers were written.

IMORTANT NOTE: manuscript without references should not be longer than 8 pages.