20th Research Challenges in Information Science

RCIS 2026 features a track entirely devoted to presenting future or ongoing research projects (e.g., H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) on topics related to information science. This track features a great opportunity for presenters to get feedback before submitting a research project or to disseminate the intermediate results of their projects, and for participants to get an updated view of innovative ongoing research while getting in touch with potential research partners.

The Research Projects @RCIS Track follows a two-step publication process. Firstly, the authors should submit a short paper (6 pages) or a long paper (up to 10 pages) summarizing the project's objectives and relevant results. Each submission will be peer reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of RCIS. If the paper is accepted, the authors must register for the conference to present their work at the “Research Projects @ RCIS” session at RCIS. Furthermore, the accepted papers will be published in a CEUR-WS proceedings volume together with workshops papers. The papers are to be formatted in the 1-column CEUR-ART style (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html).

Beyond the special topic for RCIS 2026, the conference welcomes Research Projects submissions from any domain of Information Science relevant to RCIS 2026.

The types of projects that are eligible for presentation in this track are manifold:

• Projects funded by the European Union, by national or regional funding organizations, or even by individual universities and industries.
• Projects focused on fundamental research, applied research, or more industry-oriented.
• Projects carried out by an international consortium of partners or projects that involve partners of the same country.
• Research statements for future projects concerning Research Challenges in Information Science.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the RCIS scientific committee and should include:

• Project full name, acronym, duration (from-to), and URL.
• Names of presenter(s) and main contributors.
• Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs.
• The relevance of the project (or one of its work packages) to the Research Challenges in Information Science conference topics.
• If the project is ongoing: summary of current project results

Five- to eight-page papers shall be formatted as a 1-column CEUR-ART style (templates can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Papers should be submitted via Easychair :

Janis Stirna
Stockholm University
Sweden

Charlotte Verbruggen
TU Wien
Austria