📅 16- 18 November 2026
🗺️RIMINI, Hotel Sporting & Hotel Ambasciatori

Registration are OPEN
Registration DEADLINE July 18 or until sold out !!200 participant!!
Deadline for submission of ABSTRACT August 31

We are glad to announce the 25th edition of the annual event of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) entirely dedicated to young researchers working in Chemistry, the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2026. This international conference is organized by the Young Group of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI Giovani) and the National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) with the financial support from Merck and several other sponsors.
The Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2026 will take place from the 16 to 18 of November in Rimini (Italy), on the Adriatic Riviera of Romagna, in one of the best-known seaside resorts in Northern Italy.

The symposium will be held in the Hotel Sporting & Hotel Ambasciatori, ensuring an elegant, comfortable, and top-level 4*-superior hospitality.

This symposium will cover all the disciplines of Chemistry and is fully oriented to young researchers, such as MSc and PhD students, scholarship holders and post-doc fellows, as well as young researchers working in companies and other non-academic research institutes. Thanks to the active commitment of SCI in the European framework (as a society member of EuChemS), the event will have international character: it will be open to researchers coming from all over the world, will guest international plenary speakers, and English will be the official language.

Symposium members will present the results of their scientific research in front of an international audience, which will also include representatives of chemical companies and invited renowned scientists.

The conference is organized to allow each participant to contribute with an oral presentation, a poster, or a poster + flash presentation. All the accepted scientific contributions within the event will be collected in a citable international volume with ISBN code.
Thanks to the significant financial support from Merck, which will contribute to the costs of accommodation and meals, the registration fees are particulary low

Platinum sponsor: Merck
Gold sponsor: INSTM

All presentations must be in English and must contain both the logos of the Symposium and of SCI Giovani, provided in the acceptance notification e-mail.

Under/Equal-35
SCI or INSTM Members
250 euro (First 100 registered) 280 euro (Over 100 registered)
Under/Equal-35
Non-Members
(+ 2-years SCI membership)
330 euro (First 100 registered) 360 euro (Over 100 registered)
Over 35
SCI or INSTM Members
350 euro (First 100 registered) 380 euro (Over 100 registered)
Over 35
Non-Members
(+ 1-year SCI membership)
430euro (First 100 registered) 460 euro (Over 100 registered)
Retired
360 euro (First 100 registered 390 euro (Over 100 registered)
Accompanying person
340 euro (First 100 registered 370euro (Over 100 registered)

50% REFUND WILL BE GIVEN FOR CANCELLATIONS BEFORE THE 30th OF AUGUST. NO REFUND WILL BE GIVEN AFTER THE 30th OF AUGUST.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS • Duration: 8 min + 2 min of question time. • Allowed file formats: PPT/PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint) or PDF (You will not be allowed to use your own personal computer)

FLASH + POSTER PRESENTATIONS • Flash talk duration: 5 min • Allowed file formats: PPT/PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint) or PDF (You will not be allowed to use your own personal computer) • Poster size: height 100 cm, width 70 cm (B1 format, portrait orientation).

POSTER PRESENTATIONS • Poster size: height 100 cm, width 70 cm (B1 format, portrait orientation).