ISSEP 2026

Submissions

The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives (ISSEP) is an established international research forum for researchers, educators, policy makers, and practitioners working to advance informatics education from early childhood through secondary and higher education. The conference fosters an inclusive and collaborative platform to share rigorous research, innovative pedagogies, curriculum initiatives, and evidence-based practice in the evolving field of informatics education.

ISSEP 2026 will take place at Tallinn University in Estonia from 20–23 September 2026, featuring a doctoral consortium, main conference sessions, and optional school visits/tours.

Call for Contributions

Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the scope of the conference. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by Programme Committee members.

We invite submissions of original research and practice-oriented manuscripts addressing key issues in informatics education, with particular emphasis on emerging and high-impact themes such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Data Science, and Data Literacy for learners and teachers in the context of school informatics.

Work submitted to ISSEP should be novel and material that has been previously published should not be republished unless the work has been significantly revised. Note, however, that while novel work is highly valued, constructive replication of previous studies can also be a significant contribution, and a new interpretation or evaluation of previously published work can make a good contribution.

Conference Topics

The main topics of the conference include (but are not limited to):

Submission Guidelines

Format and Structure

Manuscripts must conform to the Springer LNCS format and will be peer-reviewed. Templates and detailed formatting instructions are available at:

• Springer LNCS Conference Proceedings Guidelines
• LaTeX (recommended) or Microsoft Word templates
• For online LaTeX editors, see Overleaf

Abstract Guidelines

Abstracts should be 200–300 words and clearly communicate the purpose, methods, key findings, and relevance of your work.

Double-Blind Review Process

All full and short papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. To ensure anonymity:

• Remove author names and affiliations from the submitted version
• Avoid details in the article that could reveal author identity, including:
  • Institution-specific information
  • Specific funding information
  • Clear self-citations

Publication and Proceedings

Selected high-quality full and short papers will be invited for publication in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (indexed in Scopus). Other accepted papers, posters, abstracts of workshop proposals, and other shorter contributions will be included in the local conference proceedings with DOI.

How to Submit

Abstracts, papers, posters, workshops, and doctoral consortium applications can be submitted through EasyChair

All submissions must report original work not under review elsewhere.

Guidelines for Proceedings

These are the guidelines on how to prepare and upload camera-ready material for an accepted paper in the ISSEP’26 full/short papers track. Note that the deadline for submitting camera-ready material is 14th July AoE. Authors who fail to meet this deadline will not be able to get their papers included in the proceedings. The Springer guidelines and templates (e.g. License to Publish Form) can be found on Springer LNCS web site

Step 1: Updating the paper content for the camera-ready version

Please prepare the camera-ready version of your paper according to the following guidelines:

Incorporate the changes proposed by the reviewers.

Make sure you de-anonymize the paper and that you include the ORCID of each author.

For included images: make sure you use either vector graphics whenever possible (avoid taking screenshots of graphs, for instance), or high-resolution bitmap graphics.

Note that the page limit is strict: 14 for full papers, 8 for short papers, including references. An optional appendix of maximally 2 pages may be added. Please note that if your paper includes an appendix, it should be placed in front of the references. If your submission currently goes over that limit, please shorten it to make it fit within the prescribed number of pages.

Use the Springer LNCS template available here exclusively (the same as for your initial reviewed submission).

Please respect Springer's Instructions for Authors document, in particular, see “Preparation of Your Paper” section above.

Step 2: Preparing camera-ready material in the required format

Please prepare the following files as part of the camera-ready material:

Camera-ready PDF file: This is the PDF file corresponding to the camera-ready version of your paper.

Camera-ready source file: This is a .zip file containing the source used to prepare the camera-ready PDF. Please prepare the source as a single Latex or Word file, and also include any additional dependencies (e.g., images, .bib file, .bbl file, and style files). Please make sure that the submitted source can be compiled to generate the camera-ready PDF.

[Only applies for Springer proceedings] Camera-ready license file: This is a license to publish associated with your accepted paper. The corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a License-to-Publish form, to be uploaded together with the final files for the paper.

Step 3: Uploading camera-ready material via EasyChair

Please upload the files prepared in Step 2 via EasyChair using the following steps:

Login to EasyChair in the role of author and go to the page associated with your paper.

Click “Add files” on the top right corner.

Click “camera-ready PDF file” to upload the camera-ready PDF file for your paper.

Click “camera-ready source file” to upload the camera-ready source file for your paper.

[Only applies for Springer proceedings] Click “camera-ready license file” to upload the camera-ready license file.

Note that the deadline for submitting camera-ready material to Sprigner proceedings is 14th July AoE. Authors who fail to meet this deadline will not be able to get their papers included in the proceedings.