Submission

General Submission Guidelines

  • All presentations and posters must clearly outline the stigma component being addressed to be eligible.
  • Abstracts for free papers, symposiums and posters must be submitted online in the prescribed format.
  • The decision of the Scientific Committee will be final.
  • If selected, registration by all presenters will be mandatory by the due date to be included in the final programme.
Presentation

Oral Presentation/Symposium/Poster Presentation

Oral Free Paper 8 minutes + 2 minutes Q&A
Symposium 50 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A
  • Abstracts must be structured: Introduction, Method, Result, Discussion.
  • Total word count: 250 words.
  • Names and primary affiliations of all presenters must be included.
  • For symposiums, at least 3 presenters are required.
  • All speakers in a symposium must register for the conference in order to be able to present.
  • Please indicate the most relevant track and theme.
  • These time limits must not be exceeded.
Workshops
  • Workshops should be a demonstration of mental health stigma reduction related work that you/your organisation is/has implemented. It cannot have only power-point presentations or posters. It is essential to demonstrate how the material was used on the ground.
  • It can be related to promoting mental health literacy or psychoeducation or reducing stigma around mental illnesses or promoting help seeking.
  • Each workshop will last for a duration of 2 hours.
  • Please write an abstract of 250 words on what you seek to demonstrate and email it to secretariat@tas2026.org by the 15th of July 2026.
  • Please note that all the resource persons of the workshop will need to register for the conference