The IPSA Executive Committee has selected the historic city of Poznań as the new host city for the 24th IPSA World Congress of Political Science to be held at the Poznań Congress Center from 23 to 28 of July, 2016. It will be the first IPSA World Congress to be held in Eastern Europe.

Poznań is one of the oldest cities in Poland, dating from the 10th and 11th centuries. It is an ideal location for the 2016 IPSA World Congress, as an affordable university town with a quarter of its population being students. The Adam Mickiewicz University, in particular, has a strong international presence. In 2008 Poznań hosted the 11,000 delegates attending the UN Climate Change Conference. There are good air connections to Poznań from European airports such as Copenhagen and Frankfurt as well as excellent rail connections, for example from Berlin and Warsaw. The Congress Centre is conveniently located for the many cultural offerings of the old city as well as for transport and hotels. There was strong support for the bid from the Polish Political Science Association.

IPSA thanks its collective members and participants who supported IPSA during this unprecedented and challenging relocation process, prompted by the deterioration of the security situation in Turkey and the region.

Nine cities across Europe submitted bid applications to host the Congress and four of these bids were supported by national associations. After a detailed quantitative and qualitative assessment of the bids, IPSA selected Poznań as the new host city.

The main theme of the Congress will not change and all accepted panels and papers will be maintained in what is an outstanding Congress Program.

Congress Registration

Early-bird registration for WC2016 is available until 13 April 2016. ALL participants, including session chairs, panel chairs, discussants and paper givers, must register to attend the congress. All participants must be IPSA members in order to register.

Registration details are available on the IPSA Congress registration page.

Refund Policy

All cancellations must be sent in writing to the IPSA Secretariat at [email protected]

If you completed your registration before 25 February 2016 and no longer wish to attend the Congress, we will refund 100% of your registration fee.

Please note: membership fees are non-refundable. New and renewed membership will continue to be valid, even if registration to the World Congress is cancelled.

The regular Refund Policy will apply to registrations completed after 25 February 2016.