Introduction
The 12th European Conference on Wood Modification (ECWM12) will take place in Dresden, Germany, on 26-27 October 2026.
The conference will be hosted at the Institut für Holztechnologie Dresden gGmbH (IHD), Zellescher Weg 24, 01217 Dresden, Germany.
ECWM conferences provide a forum for research organisations and companies, as well as stakeholders, architects, and project managers to learn about the latest developments in wood modification, to discuss them with renowned experts and to build networks in an informal and friendly atmosphere.
All types of wood modification are covered- This includes thermal, chemical or impregnation modification, as well as related technologies, such as microwave, plasma and enzymatic modification. The programme will also include testing methods and standards, environmental issues, quality control and aspects of commercialisation and markets.
The conference programme is arranged by the scientific committee.
ECWM conferences were established in 2003 (Ghent), and in the same year, the European TMT Workshops were started in Dresden, organised by IHD. Both conferences have been successful, but there have always been some overlaps. Now, as part of ECWM12, the TMT Workshop series will be integrated into ECWM.
We look forward to welcoming you in Dresden:
Holger Militz (Chair of Scientific Committee) and
Wolfram Scheiding (Local Organizing Committee)
Committees
Local organising committee
Scientific committee
Dr. Julia Milne e Carmo (Carmo Group, Portugal)
Dr. Ottaviano Allegretti (CNR IBE, Italy)
Pr. Giacomo Goli (Firenze University, Italy)
Pr. Callum Hill (JCH Industrial Ecology Ltd., UK)
Dr. Dennis Jones (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
Pr. Holger Militz (Göttingen University, Germany)
Dr. Marina van de Zee (SHR, The Netherlands)
Pr. Philippe Gérardin (Lorraine University, France)
Pr. Joris Van Acker (Ghent University, Belgium)
Keydates
Registration (early bird) - 17 August 2026
Submission of manuscripts for book of abstracts and proceedings - 18 September 2026
Registration (final) - 12 October 2026
Abstract and Paper Submission
-
For the book of abstracts, we would ask ALL speakers to submit a manuscript of max. 2 pages. For the conference proceedings, we kindly ask the speakers with orals (full papers) to submit a manuscript of max. 8 pages, and the speakers with posters a manuscript of max. 4 pages.
-
For the preparation of your manuscripts, please use these MS Word template
-
Submit your manuscripts to Amelie Neugebauer until 18 September 2026.
Special journal issue
As with some further ECWM conferences, there will be an opportunity to publish the paper manuscript in a scientific journal.
It is planned to publish a special issue of the International Wood Products Journal (ed. Dennis Jones), including full papers as well as brief originals (technical notes).
Following the conference, the scientific committee will select conference papers, which will be then peer-reviewed.
There is no guarantee that a manuscript will be taken up into the journals special issue.
For the journal, the 4 pages manuscript of speakers with posters might be selected only for a brief original.
To get a chance to be selected for a full journal paper, speakers with posters must also submit an 8 pages manuscript.
Irrespective of the type of paper, it must be ensured that the paper was not already published elsewhere.
NOTE: For any correspondence with the local organisers, please include “ECWM12” in the subject line.
Conference programme
Fees and Registration
Register for the ECWM here.
Once you have submitted your registration, it will be reviewed and you will receive a confirmation.
The invoice will be sent via email.
Pre-conference Get-together and Conference Dinner
The informal get-together on the evening before the conference will take place on 25 October from 16:30 at the Lingnerterrassen (Bautzner Str. 132, 01099 Dresden).
For more information about the Lingnerterrassen, click here: Lingnerterrassen
In the evening of 26 October, we cordially invite you to a short cruise followed by a pleasant dinner aboard the salon steamer “August der Starke”. Boarding starts at 19:30 at the Dresden Terrassenufer.
You can find more information about the “Weiße Flotte Dresden” and its steamboats and salon ships here: Weiße Flotte Dresden
The participation fee is already included in the conference fee.
Both events offer excellent opportunities for networking and informal exchange in a pleasant atmosphere.
Travel and Accommodation
Hotel recommendations
We have reserved a limited number of rooms for you at various hotels. Please use the code “ECWM” when booking.
Dorint Hotel Dresden
Grunaer Straße 14 · 01069 Dresden
Tel.: +49 351 4915 0
reservierung.dresden@dorint.com
www.dorint.com/dresden
Single Room: 110.00
TU Dresden Guest House “Am Weberplatz”
Weberplatz 3 · 01217 Dresden (0.7 km from the IHD)
Tel.: +49 351 467 9300
info@gaestehausweberplatz.de
www.tu-dresden.de/gaestehaus
Twin room: 102,62 €
Barceló Dresden Newa
Prager Straße 2c · 01069 Dresden
Tel.: +49 351 4814 117
dresdennewa@barcelo.com
www.barcelo.com/de-de/barcelo-dresden-newa/
Double room (single occupancy/double occupancy): 99 €/124 €
You can find additional accommodation options at:
www.dresden.de
Travel information
by airplane
- from Berlin Brandenburg airport (BER):
- by Intercity (IC) directly to Dresden main station
- by tram 11 direction Zschertnitz till stop Zellescher Weg or
- from Dresden international airport:
- by train S2 till stop Dresden main station
- by tram 11 direction Zschertnitz till stop Zellescher Weg
by car
- on freeway A4/A17 till exit Dresden Südvorstadt
- in direction city center or
- on freeway A13/A4 till exit Dresden Hellerau
- on B170 in direction Prague
by train
- till stop Dresden main station or Dresden Neustadt
- by tram 11 direction Zschertnitz
- till stop Zellescher Weg
by bus
- by line 61 till stop
- Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB)
Presentations and Posters
Presentations
Please prepare your presentation as PowerPoint file (alternatively PDF). For the file name please use the number of your paper/poster (you find it in the programme) and your surname, e.g.
“1.1_Duarte”. This would be very helpful for us.
According to the screen of the conference room, the preferred slide format is widescreen (16:9).
When preparing your presentation, please consider the available speaking time (15 min for full papers, 3 min for posters). Please note that the PowerPoint presenter view will not be available.
If possible, please send the file prior to the conference via email to
amelie.neugebauer@ihd-dresden.de, to avoid time pressure at the conference.
Otherwise, bring the file on an USB stick and hand it over to our staff at the desk. In this case, please turn to the desk in time, i.e. in the morning before the start or latest in the break prior to your session.
Posters
Please bring your posters as printed copy in A1 format (acc. to ISO 216), i.e. 594 mm x 841 mm.
Please include the number of your poster, e.g.
“3.1” (you find it in the programme) in the headline, to make sure it is hanging in the right place.
Material to fix your poster at the poster stand will be available on site.
Book of Abstracts and Proceedings
The book of abstracts will be handed out as brochure at the conference. The proceedings will be provided to the participants after the conference as PDF document for free download.
As with some further ECWM conferences, there will be an opportunity to publish the paper manuscript in a scientific journal. It is planned to publish a special issue of the International Wood Products Journal (ed. Dennis Jones), including full papers as well as brief originals (technical notes).
Following the conference, the scientific committee will select conference papers, which will be then peer-reviewed. There is no guarantee that a manuscript will be taken up into the journals special issue.
Sponsors
Imprint
Institut für Holztechnologie Dresden gemeinnützige GmbH
Zellescher Weg 24
01217 Dresden
Germany
Telefon: +49 351 4662 0
Fax: +49 351 4662 211
E-Mail: info@ihd-dresden.de
Internet: www.ihd-dresden.de
Managing Director: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Tobisch
Shareholder: Trägerverein Institut für Holztechnologie Dresden e.V.
Registration Court: Amtsgericht Dresden (Dresden Local Court)
Registration No: HRB 746
VAT ID No.: DE 140 30 16 94
Disclaimer
1. Contents of the online appearance
The author assumes no guarantee whatsoever for the up-to-dateness, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Any liability claims raised against the author and relating to any damage of material or immaterial nature that may have been caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by using faulty or incomplete information shall principally be precluded to the extent that there is no evidence of intention or gross negligence on the author’s part. All offers are subject to alteration and non-binding. The author expressly reserves the right to modify, supplement, delete parts of the pages or to alter or delete the entire offer without special notice or suspend their publication temporarily or completely.
2. References and links
Regarding direct or indirect references to websites ("hyperlinks") that lie beyond the author’s scope of responsibility, the obligation to assume liability would become effective only if the author had had knowledge of their contents and if he had technically been capacitated or had it been reasonable to him to prevent the use of illegal contents. The author hereby expressly declares that, at the time of linking in, no illegal contents had been noted on the sites linked in. The author has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design, contents or copyright of the linked-in/networked sites. Therefore, he expressly dissociates from any and all contents of any and all linked-in/networked sites that have been modified after their linking in. This statement applies to both links and references made within our own Internet appearance and to third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and any other forms of databases set up by the author that allow external access to their contents. The provider of the pages to which reference has been made is solely responsible for illegal, faulty or incomplete contents and, in particular, for any damage arising from the use or non-use of information provided in such a way – and not the one who merely refers to the respective publication via links.
3. Copyright and trademark law
In all publications, the author endeavours to comply with the copyrights of the images, graphs, audio documents, video sequences and texts used or to fall back on licence-free graphs, audio documents, video sequences and texts. All trademarks and brand names mentioned in the Internet appearance and probably protected by third parties are non-restrictively subject to the provisions of the respectively applicable trademark law and the proprietary rights of the respectively registered owner. By merely mentioning it, no conclusion shall be drawn that trademarks may not be protected by third-party rights! The copyright for published items generated by the author himself shall remain solely with the author of the pages. The reproduction or use of such graphs, audio documents, video sequences or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted unless expressly consented to by the author.
4. Data protection
If there is the possibility in an Internet appearance to enter personal or business data (e-mail addresses, names, postal addresses), such data provided by the user is disclosed expressly voluntarily. The utilisation and payment for all services offered is permitted– to the extent that it is technically feasible and acceptable – also without indicating such data or providing anonymised data or an alias. The use of contact data published within the scope of the Legal Notice or comparable specifications, such as postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses, by third parties for transmitting not expressly requested information is not permitted. Taking legal steps against the sender of so-called spam mail is expressly reserved in the event of violating this prohibition.
5. Legal effectiveness of this disclaimer of liability
This disclaimer of liability shall be considered as part of that Internet appearance from which reference is made to this site. Should parts or individual formulations of this text not, not anymore or not completely comply with the legal situation, the contents and validity of the remaining parts of this document shall remain unaffected.
6. EU council of arbitration
The European Commission provides a platform for online arbitration that can be called on at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.
Data protection declaration
Data protection information on the processing of personal data pursuant to Art. 13 DSGVO in connection with the transparency requirement pursuant to Art. 12ff DSGVO.
Our enterprise takes the protection of personalised data very serious. We want you to know when we save what data and how we use it. When using and processing personalised data, we act in line with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) and the new German Federal Data Protection Act (FDPA).
Usage data
Visiting our Internet site does principally not required any disclosure of personalised data. In the event of any access to one of our sites, data is saved in a protocol file on your visit to the Internet site. This includes:
- Name of the retrieved site or file
- Calendar date, clock-time and status of the call
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Operating system and version
- Referrer URL (name of the forwarding website, e.g., google.de)
- Host name of the accessing computer
These protocol files and edited user statistics are made available to us by our web host. This data is not personalised; thus, we cannot retrace what user has retrieved what data. No forwarding to third parties or compiling with other data is undertaken. We would like you to note that any data transfer on the Internet (e.g., when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. No gapless protection of data is possible to protect data from being accessed by third parties.
Contact data
In individual cases, we require personalised data for certain offers and services. The data provided by you in such case, e.g., by e-mail, is disclosed to us on a voluntary basis and is used by us only for the purpose desired by you, e.g., for making contact. It is not disclosed to third parties.
The rights of parties concerned
Pursuant to Art. 15 et seq. GDPR, affected parties of the right of information, correction, deletion, restriction or objection regarding the use and processing of their data. Moreover, parties concerned pursuant to Art. 13 para. 2 item c GDPR have the right to revoke their consent to the use or processing of personalised data for the future, if such processing rests on Art. 6 para. 1 a or Art. 9 para. 2 a GDPR. The legitimacy of the processing due to the approval up to the revocation shall not be affected thereby. As a rule, however, any such revocation results in the consequence that the purpose for which the data had been raised, cannot be fulfilled. The legal effectiveness of such right requires the written form. For that purpose, please contact us by e-mail to:
For that purpose, please contact us by e-mail to: info@ihd-dresden.de
Deletion of personalised data
Personalised data is deleted if the purpose for saving it is dismissed and no legal requirement (e.g., legal retention periods) prescribes to maintain such data. The provisions of Art. 17 GDPR in conjunction with Section 35 FDPA apply. Should any deletion due to legal, contractual or trade or tax-law-relevant reasons render impossible, the use of such data can be restricted on request by the party concerned. The legal effectiveness of such right requires the written form.
The right of the party concerned of data transferability
The enterprise guarantees the right of data transferability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR. Any party concerned has the right to obtain a copy of their personalised data in a commonly machine-readable format.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are saved by web browsers when a website is accessed. Our website uses cookies to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Most of the cookies used by our site are so-called “session cookies” that are deleted automatically when users leave the site. Other cookies remain saved by your browser until you delete them, and they enable us to recognise your web browser again upon your next visit. But you may set your browser in such a way that it generally refuses cookies or deletes them upon exiting the website or that it asks your permission to save them to make sure their saving is permitted only in the single case. Disabling cookies may restrict the functionality of the website. Cookies which are essential for making the website work are saved pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR. Cookies for the purpose of retracing user activities or of using them for marketing or advertising activities are not in place.
Links to other websites
Our homepage contains links to other websites. We have no influence whatsoever on their operators’ compliance with data protection regulations. Please note our disclaimer of liability.
Party responsible in the sense of the GDPR and FDPA
Institut fuer Holztechnologie Dresden gemeinnuetzige GmbH
Data protection officer
For maintaining data protection rights, our enterprise has appointed an external data protection officer. You can find our data protection officer at Hermann J. Janz, Janz Consulting Datenschutz, Schevenstr. 18, 01326 Dresden.
