The 14th ELACTA Conference

will be held in Bucharest, Romania.

We invite our members and other specialists, breastfeeding supporters to the biannual conference to learn, discuss and exchange knowledge, skills and experience. Our 14th conference will be held  in the city Bucharest – Romania’s capital, which is the country’s largest city and its cultural, commercial and financial centre, a vibrant city full of charm, bohemian lifestyle, beautiful historical buildings and which will surely become a memorable experience.

Pre-Conference: 14 May, 2026

Main conference: 15-16 May, 2026

Call for abstracts

All the ELACTA members and not only can actively contribute to ELACTA Conference 2026 by presenting their experiences and their knowledge in the form of posters or oral presentations at a workshop!

You  are cordially invited to present a poster and/or a 15 minutes oral presentation. In the following, you will find the details for submission of abstracts.

Submission process – essential points :

1. Abstracts for a poster and/or an oral presentation will be accepted in the areas of  Breastfeeding and Lactation Clinical practice, Policies and advocacy, Research, Breastfeeding support projects.
2. Abstracts can be submitted for an oral presentation (up to 15 minutes on Thursday 14^th of May 2026) or as a printed poster (maximum size A0, exhibited on 15^th and 16^th of May 2026).
3. Abstract submission deadline – 31 December, 2025, 23:59.
4. From the submitted abstracts the ELACTA Conference Scientific Committee will select those that will be presented to the conference participants.  The authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection by email by January 15, 2026 and are kindly asked to confirm receipt about their participation by email to: abstracts@elacta.eu
5. Selected authors (in case of the collective authorship, one representative) will be registered under the conditions of an early registration participant.
6. After the Conference, the selected abstracts for oral presentations and posters can be published on the ELACTA website.
7. Award for the best oral presentation and poster:

The winning abstracts of posters and oral presentations (voted by the conference participants by secret ballot) will be published in ELACTA’s journal  Lactation and Breastfeeding and authors (in case of the collective authorship, one representative) will be nominated a free ticket to the next ELACTA conference in 2028.

7. Those wishing to participate in the selection must fill out an APPLICATION FORM. Only complete submissions which conform to the guidelines in format and structure received before the deadline 31 December, 2025, 23:59 will be accepted for consideration.

Guidelines for submission of Oral presentation and Posters 

If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact by the email address: abstracts@elacta.eu

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