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Call for Participation at the 39th International A+A Congress 2025: fresh ideas – exciting formats – it’s all happening here!

Your fresh ideas are needed now for the 39th International A+A Congress 2025. “Experts, stakeholders in trade and industry, policy-makers, practitioners in companies and institutions, and their respective networks are all needed to leave their personal mark on occupational safety and health of the future.  Together, we’re shaping safety and health at work and developing sustainable concepts that are proving effective at both national and international level,” explains Dr Christian Felten, Managing Director of the Basi, the German Federal Association for Occupational Safety and Health. The Basi is organizing the 39th International A+A Congress, running concurrently with the International A+A Trade Fair from 4 to 7 November 2025 in Düsseldorf.

Core topics of the Call for Participation for the 39th International A+A Congress 2025

Present your ideas and solutions to a huge audience of experts at the 39th A+A Congress in the following categories:

This includes strategic approaches from all areas to improving safety and health at work. Among these are concepts from surveillance, consulting and the regulatory sphere, and examples from Vision Zero and the shaping of good work. The focus also lies on strategic solutions for individual sectors, and strategies for healthy unskilled work and for workers on digital platforms.

Present, to a large audience, the benefits for occupational safety and health that you or your company see in developments in artificial intelligence and the digital transformation: be it the use of AI to detect hazards, human-robot interaction, the use of smart PPE, or chatbots to enhance work safety.

What concepts exist for dealing with the current impacts of climate change in the world of work? What opportunities are presented for sustainable prevention activity at new types of workplace as the economy undergoes restructuring with climate-friendly technologies?

What challenges do providers of consulting services in companies face in the present situation? What concepts exist for solutions? What does the research community have to say? What skills and professions are needed in the changing world of work and for the shaping of modern prevention activity in the workplace?

What effective strategies, consulting concepts and sound practical solutions for safety and health at work are available to small and medium-sized enterprises?

All facets of the subject can be addressed at the congress. For example, how can mental stress be avoided during corporate restructuring or the introduction of new technologies? How should a positive management culture to be developed in spite of performance pressure? How do occupational safety and health and workplace health promotion intersect? What is the occupational disease situation? What concepts are needed for good health management? How can mobile working and working from home be made safe and healthy?

Take this opportunity to describe, for example, your prevention concepts or effective solutions in individual companies for activities involving hazardous substances, biological substances, and work in environments associated with noise or radiation. Discuss research results, the setting of limit values, or developments in the German and European body of regulations.

What practical and recently developed technical measures exist for ensuring the safety of workers at work? What means do they create for the suitable design of work premises?

How can workplaces be designed in such a way that they satisfy the physical and mental needs of workers? Do new ideas and concepts exist that are already in use in the field?

Sessions for specific sectors, traffic safety, target groups and networks are essential for addressing particular needs and challenges. We welcome proposals for sessions that promote dialogue concerning best practices and innovation within a given sector.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

A+A 2025 Düsseldorf Termin EN
  • 01.09.2024      Launch of Call for Participation

  • 31.10.2024      End of Call for Participation

  • 03/2025    Announcement of the congress with overview of the planned events

  • 05/2025    Announcement of the selected projects/start of ticket sales

  • 04.- 07.11.2025 A+A 2025

Submit abstract

We look forward to your submissions of papers, in various formats or as posters, on the Basi’s congress platform. You can find an overview of the topics of the next A+A Congress on the congress website at www.basi.de/aa-kongress.
The upcoming A+A Congress is designed as a face-to-face event. Before submitting your abstract, check first that you will actually be able to attend in person if your paper is accepted. Online lectures are possible only in exceptional cases.

To the online submission process

All papers submitted are reviewed by the Basi’s independent advisory groups. Should it be accepted, your paper will be published in the congress media (online and print). By submitting your paper, you consent to its publication. Note that your presentation will also be published on our website after the congress. Please ensure that content in your presentation that is not licensed for publication is deleted before the paper is published on the Basi website. To this end, we request that you provide, of your own accord, an amended version of your presentation immediately following the end of the congress. Should we fail to receive a new version within five days, we will assume that the presentation may be published in the same form in which it was held.

Posters that are submitted will be published online whilst the congress is in progress. Please ensure that the content of posters is also licensed and that your posters can therefore be published in the form in which they were submitted. Should this not be the case, please consult Hildegard Lückeroth, who is responsible for the congress, when submitting your poster. Ms. Lückeroth can be reached on +49 2241 231 6090 or by email at Hildegard.Lueckeroth@basi.de.

Lectures:

The upcoming A+A Congress is designed as a face-to-face event. Before submitting your abstract, check first that you will actually be able to attend in person if your paper is accepted. Online lectures are possible only in exceptional cases.

The lectures will be broadcast periodically by live stream. Please take this into account when preparing your presentation. No provision will be made for online congress visitors to participate actively by verbal contributions or chats.

For the classification of your paper by topic, please consult the congress programme. Your speaking time is 20 minutes for delivery of your lecture, and a further 3-5 minutes for questions and discussions. You may hold your lecture in either English or German. Please adhere to a scientific structure (background, methods, results, conclusions; if applicable, references). Please take the time limit into account when planning your lecture. The chairs of the sessions are instructed to terminate presentations once the speaking time limit is exceeded.

Posters

Please produce your poster in A0 vertical format (height 84.1 cm, width 118.9 cm). The poster can be in English or German.

Poster exhibitions will be held both on the congress site and online.

At the congress site, the posters will be exhibited on poster panels for the entire duration of the congress. In addition, on two days during the congress programme, time slots will be reserved solely for the poster exhibition. During this time, one of the authors should be present at the poster to discuss it with visitors and answer their questions.

For the online poster exhibition on the Basi website, we require your poster in the form of a PDF file 14 days before the beginning of the congress. We will provide you with information in due course on the platform to which the file is to be uploaded.

Technical requirements

The speakers are requested to make their presentations available to the Basi approximately 10 days before the start of the congress. Where simultaneous interpreting is to be provided for a session, the interpreters require a day or two to prepare for the subject. Speakers will be provided in due course with information on the platform to which they are to upload the presentations.

Settings for presentations

  • Resolution: 1280 x 720 pixels
  • Standard format: 16:9 (if the 4:3 format is used, a black margin will be shown)
  • The file name must contain all data on the lecture: date_room_time_title_name_ID

For example: 2024-11-05_room 16_11:30_xxxxx_Mustermann_98765

  • Linked images/videos/tables should be saved in separate files.
  • A readme.txt file containing information on any special aspects is to be added.

As a precaution, we request that you bring presentations to the congress on a USB stick, as any conversion may result in deviation from the original, i.e. changes in the layout may occur.

Should changes have been made to the presentation shortly before the congress, please report to the media acceptance desk in the Congress Center with the current version, in good time and no later than 1.5 hours before the beginning of the session.

Statement of conflicts of interest

In order for the A+A Congress to apply for certification to the North Rhine Medical Association, speakers are requested to complete a questionnaire stating conflicts of interest. The questionnaire will be sent to them following approval of their papers. Should conflicts of interest exist with regard to the research paper to be presented, they should be shown briefly on a slide at the beginning of the presentation.

Provision of documentation following the congress

Speakers are to assign rights to the Basi for the presentation slides to be downloaded “as displayed”. Access to the download, which is to take the form of a PDF file, will be possible on www.basi.de, exclusively for persons attending the A+A Congress, in password-protected form and only for a limited time.

Should you have objections to this arrangement, please inform us in good time. You are welcome to provide us with a modified version of the presentation or a manuscript of your paper. In this case, please send it in good time to congress@basi.de.

You can choose from a wide range of formats for your contribution to the 39th International A+A Congress:

  • Lecture event
  • Symposium
  • Keynote
  • Workshop
  • World Café
  • Fishbowl
  • Panel discussion
  • Network meeting
  • Live podcast
  • Poster presentation

Do you have other contribution formats in mind? We’d be interested in hearing about them.

Lecture

Twenty minutes are available for an individual lecture (15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for discussion). Please take this into account when planning your lecture. Chairs of a session are required to terminate presentations when the allocated time limit is reached.

Lecture session

1.5 hours are allotted for a lecture session. Such a session can accommodate up to four specialist lectures each lasting 20 minutes. Of the 20 minutes allocated, 15 minutes are assigned to the lecture and 5 minutes to discussion. The remaining time is available for words of welcome, summing up and parting words.

Symposium

The symposium is a separate conference on a specific congress topic. Specialist lectures may be coupled with discussions or supplementary programmes. The structure can be determined by the submitter.

Keynote

A keynote lecture is held in the plenum to open the congress and provide an introduction to specific specialist areas. Keynote lectures often pre-empt the key topics of the congress.

Workshop

The workshop format enables several groups or teams to engage actively with a particular topic. The aim is to discuss issues, gather ideas, identify problems and develop solutions. Practical activities, simulations, group discussions and joint exercises are used to reach the desired results. Skills in exploring new methods and approaches can also be imparted.

World Café

In a World Café, alternating groups discuss predefined topics and issues at separate tables. A record is made of the results. After a defined time, the groups switch to a different table, where they discuss the next topic and the observations already made there. The result is a progressive discussion built on the preceding discussions, in a convivial atmosphere.

Fishbowl

The participants sit in two circles, one within the other. The discussion is held in the inner circle and is followed attentively by participants in the outer circle. Members of the outer circle can engage actively at any time by exchanging places with members of the inner circle. All discussion takes place in the inner circle. Interactive discussion in the large circle.

Panel discussion

This is a lively session format in which a range of positions on a topic are presented and the for and against is discussed. Up to five panel members on a podium consider specific individual aspects of a wider topic. The audience is also involved in the discussion.

Workshop for the future (Zukunftswerkstatt)

The workshop for the future serves to stimulate the imagination so that new ideas can be found for resolving social problems. This format is used when problems cannot be resolved by conventional means or methods. The primary objective is to find solutions that the participants have previously sought without success.

Network meeting

Arrange a network meeting to engage in dialogue with like-minded individuals and people working in the same field, to develop professional skills further with them, and if applicable to share resources. The network meeting enables you to present yourselves as experts in your field and to forge valuable contacts. You can also use the format at the congress to maintain your existing network and extend it further.

Posters

We invite you to present your research results in poster form at the congress. Poster panels will be provided for this purpose in a dedicated area. Specified time slots are assigned in the congress programme during which only the poster presentation¬ takes place. The posters are also presented online on the Basi website.

Please find here our A+A 2025 Broschure as PDF

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Dr-Christian-Felten

Safety and health at work is a priceless asset. It must be constantly reviewed and kept up to date. New challenges presented by changes in the world of work call for new solutions – but without discarding proven principles. Artificial intelligence and the digital transformation are accelerating developments everywhere, and at a pace we have never seen before. Occupational safety and health is among the areas that can benefit from these changes.
With the Call for Participation, the Basi is now launching preparations for the 39th A+A Congress, to be held next year. Together with Messe Düsseldorf, we’re organizing one of the world’s largest events in the sphere of occupational safety and health under the motto “People matter”. We will be joined in doing so by many other players in an extensive network, and in particular by partners such as yourselves.

The congress thrives, above all, on your professional contributions, and good practices in your companies and institutions and in the research community. To these are added the numerous motivated visitors eager to engage in discussion, and the many opportunities for networking among experts.

On behalf of the Basi’s Board of Directors and its members, I would now like to invite you to contribute your ideas, messages, observations and energy to the shaping of healthy work environments, actively and in a range of formats, at a modern A+A Congress. Join many other partners in a large network in playing an important role in shaping the future of healthy work.

We look forward to seeing you in Düsseldorf.

Best wishes,
Christian Felten
The Basi (the German Federal Association for Occupational Safety and Health), together with its members and in close cooperation with Messe Düsseldorf, is shaping the International A+A Congress 2025 with current topics, several new formats and numerous opportunities