The 35th EADV Congress runs 30 September–3 October 2026 in Vienna, Austria.
This is a practical guide to the official poster and presentation rules for the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology's 35th Congress: the abstract timeline, the digital-only ePoster format and its A0 portrait spec, the ePoster upload window, the late-breaking oral track, where accepted abstracts appear after the embargo lifts, and the dermatology figures that make an ePoster or slide worth stopping for. Every date and specification below links to official EADV materials.
Transparency note: Illustrations in this article were generated with SciFig AI and reviewed by the author for scientific accuracy. Factual claims about dates and specifications link to official EADV materials.
1. EADV 2026 at a Glance: Dates, Venue, and Key Deadlines
The 35th EADV Congress runs 30 September–3 October 2026 at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria (Central European Summer Time), and presents accepted work as digital-only ePosters and oral sessions — there is no printed poster. The deadlines that matter most to a presenter are the abstract submission date and, after acceptance, the ePoster upload window that closes 21 September 2026.
Here is the EADV 2026 timeline that matters, drawn from the official EADV 2026 call for abstracts and the EADV Congress 2026 site.
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 14 May 2026 | Abstract submission deadline (a "Deadline Extended" notice appears on the site — confirm the current date) |
| 15 July 2026 | Acceptance notifications sent |
| 4 August 2026 | ePoster upload window opens |
| 2 September 2026 | Abstract withdrawal deadline |
| 7 September 2026 | Late-breaking abstract submission deadline |
| 14 September 2026 | Late-breaking abstract notifications |
| 21 September 2026 | ePoster upload deadline |
| 30 September–3 October 2026 | EADV 2026 Congress, Vienna |
Note that submitting an abstract does not register you for the meeting; early registration closed 15 April 2026, with the full rate open through 3 October 2026. Confirm the current abstract deadline on the official call-for-abstracts page, since the site shows a "Deadline Extended" notice without a stated new date.
2. EADV 2026 Abstract Submission Timeline and Late-Breaking Track
An EADV 2026 abstract is an English submission of up to 4,000 characters (including spaces) with an unlimited title, and each section permits one image file. Abstracts may not include patient photographs, identifiable locations or hospital names, or commercial drug names (use generic names). The general submission deadline is 14 May 2026 with acceptance sent 15 July 2026; a separate late-breaking track closes 7 September 2026 (notifications 14 September), costs €100 per abstract, and is accepted for oral presentation only — ePosters cannot be submitted to the late-breaking sessions.
For a late-breaking oral, EADV specifies a 15-minute slot (12 minutes of presentation plus 3 minutes of Q&A) with required on-site attendance. For the regular oral / free-communication sessions, EADV had not published the specific slide format, ratio, or presentation length as of 21 July 2026 — those details typically arrive with the programme booklet closer to the congress, so confirm them in your presenter instructions rather than assuming a format.
3. EADV 2026 Abstract Format Rules
Beyond the character limit, an EADV 2026 abstract follows a few firm content rules: English only, up to 4,000 characters including spaces, one image per section (.jpg, .gif, .png, or .bmp), and no patient photographs, identifiable places, or brand drug names. These rules shape the one figure you can attach: because photographs of identifiable patients are not allowed, a clean schematic — a skin cross-section, an immune pathway — is often the safest and most legible way to make a dermatology point in the abstract.
That same figure carries forward to your ePoster and any oral slides after acceptance, so it is worth building it once, cleanly, and reusing it across formats.
4. EADV 2026 ePoster: The A0 Portrait Spec (No Printed Poster)
EADV Congress 2026 is digital-only — an ePoster is a single-page PDF in portrait orientation, recommended at A0 size (841 × 1189 mm / 33.1 × 46.8 in) at a minimum of 200 dpi, and there is no printed poster board. Per the official call for abstracts, animations are not allowed, a QR code is permitted, and EADV does not provide a graphic template or mandate a font size — the design is yours to build. Only the presenting author can log in to upload, using a link sent by email.
The full requirements are in the official EADV 2026 call for abstracts. Two design consequences follow:
- Portrait A0, single page — design to the tall ratio from the start; a clear top-to-bottom reading path with one dominant figure beats a dense grid.
- Screen-first legibility — because an ePoster is viewed and zoomed on a screen, a crisp vector-style figure stays sharp where a photographed or low-resolution image blurs.
The dermatology figures on that ePoster — a skin immune pathway, a skin cross-section, a drug mechanism — are the slowest part to build. You can generate publication-grade versions online for free and drop them straight into your portrait layout.
Need a hero figure for your EADV ePoster?
Start from an IL-23/IL-17 pathway, a skin cross-section, or a drug mechanism before you lay out your A0 portrait sheet.
Explore the Tool5. Uploading Your EADV 2026 ePoster: Workflow and the Sept 21 Deadline
Your EADV 2026 ePoster uploads through the presenting author's account, in a window that opens 4 August 2026 and closes 21 September 2026 — miss it and your accepted work does not display. The upload link is emailed to the presenting author, and only that author can submit. After the congress, accepted abstracts are released on the EADV Event platform once the embargo lifts (covered in the final section), where registered participants can view them.
Because the file is a single portrait PDF with no animation, the whole game is legibility and hierarchy on one page. A vector figure exported cleanly — rather than a screenshot or a photographed slide — keeps every label sharp when a delegate zooms in, which is exactly what a digital-only congress rewards.
6. What Figures Do You Need for an EADV ePoster or Talk?
Whether you are building an ePoster, oral slides, or the single figure your abstract allows, EADV's dermatology audience expects the same handful of scientific figures — and the most time-consuming ones can be generated online for free in minutes. Because patient photographs are restricted, clean schematics do much of the explaining, and two figure types recur across the meeting.
On your ePoster, slides, and in your abstract, the recurring dermatology figure types are:
- Immune / inflammatory pathway — for example the IL-23/IL-17 axis: Th17 activation, IL-23-driven IL-17A/F release, keratinocyte inflammation, and where a biologic blocks it. Central to psoriasis, hidradenitis, and atopic dermatitis work.
- Skin cross-section / layer anatomy — the epidermal layers, dermis, and key cells (keratinocytes, Langerhans cells, melanocytes) that a barrier-function or pathology study intervenes on.
Each of these historically takes hours in Adobe Illustrator. You can generate them from a text prompt or turn your accepted abstract PDF into a starter figure instead, then refine and export.
Turn your dermatology mechanism into a clean figure
Paste your IL-23/IL-17 pathway or skin cross-section and generate a figure you can refine for your ePoster, slide, or abstract.
Try Free7. Designing a Winning EADV ePoster: Accuracy That Survives Peer Scrutiny
A strong EADV ePoster passes two tests: it is grasped in seconds by a delegate scrolling a digital display, and it is scientifically exact enough to survive scrutiny from a dermatologist or immunologist who knows the pathway cold. Build the single A0 portrait page around one dominant "hero" figure — usually the immune pathway or the skin cross-section with the key result nearby — and let everything else support it.
The second test is where scientific figures live or die — and where general-purpose AI image generators fall short. A tool like Nano Banana Pro or GPT Image can produce something that looks about 99% right, but on a scientific figure 99% right is effectively 0% right: a reversed cytokine axis, a mislabeled skin layer, or a biologic hitting the wrong target turns a compelling ePoster into one that misleads a reviewer. And a flat, raster AI image gives you no way to fix that last one percent.
This is the core difference with SciFig. Every figure is a fully editable SVG whose elements — arrows, cytokines, cells, labels — you can correct individually, so you (the author who actually knows the dermatology) close the gap to 100% and sign off on the science. The figures that reward this care are exactly the ones reviewers scrutinize:
- Epidermal layers — keep the order right (stratum corneum → granulosum → spinosum → basale) rather than reversing them.
- IL-23/IL-17 axis — put the biologic's target on the correct cytokine or receptor rather than a plausible-looking but wrong node.
- Cell identity — distinguish melanocytes, keratinocytes, and dermal immune cells rather than inventing states that do not exist.
Whether your EADV 2026 ePoster earns its attention comes down to whether these figures are accurate, clear, and legible on a screen — which is exactly where an editable AI figure workflow compresses days of design work into hours without giving up scientific control.
8. Create Your EADV 2026 Figures with AI: The SciFig Workflow
You already have two things most colleagues do not: your accepted abstract and a clear understanding of your study's mechanism — use both to generate your figures online for free, then edit them to exactly right. Here is the SciFig workflow for an EADV presenter:
Path 1 — Upload your accepted abstract PDF. Drop it into PDF-to-Figure. It parses your Introduction, Methods, and Results and returns a starter mechanism diagram or skin schematic in one click — you begin refining from a 70%-there draft, not a blank canvas.
Path 2 — Copy a structured prompt. For a mechanism or pathway figure, Text-to-Figure gives more control. Copy and adjust to your study:
Schematic of the IL-23/IL-17 axis in psoriasis: a dendritic cell
releasing IL-23, activating a Th17 cell to secrete IL-17A and IL-17F,
driving keratinocyte proliferation and inflammation, with an anti-IL-17
biologic blocking the cytokine.
Path 3 — Sketch and scan. If you sketched your hero figure on paper, photograph it and drop it into Sketch-to-Figure to get a publication-style version that preserves your topology.
From any path, you edit individual elements in the vector canvas — adjust labels, colors, cytokine targets — and export to editable PPTX or layered SVG for your ePoster and slides. A new SciFig account starts with 150 starter credits plus 50 refill credits every day, which covers a full set of figures for most authors. For companion guides in this conference series, see the ESMO 2026 poster guide and the SITC 2026 poster guide.
9. Where EADV 2026 Abstracts Appear: Embargo and the EADV Event Platform
Accepted EADV 2026 abstracts are released when the embargo lifts at 7:00 AM CEST on 30 September 2026, and are then available on the EADV Event platform to registered participants. As of 21 July 2026, EADV had not published whether the 2026 congress abstracts will additionally appear as a JEADV (Journal of the EADV) supplement — the EADV site hosts abstract-book PDFs from past years — so confirm the citable version once it is announced. Searches for "EADV 2026 abstracts" point to this embargoed release on the EADV Event platform.
Because your ePoster and its figures become part of this record, it is worth making sure the figure in your abstract, on your ePoster, and on any slides all tell the same study story. Keep every figure consistent across formats once your work is accepted.
FAQ
References
All specifications and dates above are drawn from official EADV materials, accessed July 21, 2026:
- European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. EADV Congress 2026. eadv.org. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://eadv.org/congress/
- European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. EADV 2026 Call for Abstracts. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://eadv.org/congress/scientific-programme/call-for-abstracts/
- European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. EADV 2026 Late-Breaking Abstracts. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://eadv.org/congress/scientific-programme/late-breaking-abstracts/
- European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. EADV 2026 Registration. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://eadv.org/congress/registration/
- European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. EADV Congress — About. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://eadv.org/congress/about/
- Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV). Wiley / EADV. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://eadv.org/scientific/abstract-books/
Disclaimer: This article is educational content focused on scientific figure design for conference ePosters and presentations. It is not medical advice and should not be used for clinical decisions. Dates and specifications are summarized from official EADV materials linked above and were accurate at the time of writing; always confirm current details on the official EADV website before submitting or uploading. SciFig is a scientific illustration tool — it does not diagnose, treat, or advise on patient care.
