Abstract submission for EPUAP 2025 is open!
Submission deadline: 10 April 2025
Please check the updated abstract submission guidelines available below
as we are using a new submission platform Conftool.

Abstract submission guidelines
- All abstracts must be submitted in English through the conference platform Conftool.
- The use of the abstract template is mandatory. The abstract should be compiled without changing the styles defined in the attached abstract template (Page size: A4, headers: Arial, 12 points, bold; abstract body: Arial, 10 points, single-spaced.)
- All abstracts will be evaluated by the EPUAP Scientific Committee and a blind review process will be performed (this is why two versions of the same abstract must be submitted: one with the list of authors and one with the header deleted, see templates).
- The abstract must not exceed one page (a word count of approximately 500 words).
- Max. 2 tables/figures.
- 1 presenter will be allowed to present max. 2 orals and 1 poster presentation (or 2 poster presentations if he/she is not presenting an oral presentation).
- Use of brand names: Research must be promoted and not a brand or a product. For all references to products or companies, only generic names must be used. The brand name can be inserted as a reference at the bottom of the abstract page. Papers containing brand names/company names in the abstract body (i.e. not in a reference at the bottom of the page) may be rejected for this reason only. EPUAP reserves the right to replace any brand name with a generic name without further notice.
- Both presentations and posters presented at the conference must not contain any company logos.
- Accepted abstracts will be published on the conference website and in the electronic conference abstract book. By submitting your abstract you consent to give EPUAP the permission to publish it.
Abstract submission categories
For each of the following categories, we encourage you to submit abstracts from both research and practice areas.
- Pressure ulcers: Patient safety, quality of care and policy
- Pressure ulcers and health economics
- Impact of pressure ulcers on patients, carers and society
- Patient involvement in pressure ulcer practice, research, guideline development
- Innovative approaches in clinical research (prevention and treatment)
- Technologies to promote wound healing
- Basic science: Biomechanics, mechanobiology
- Experimental studies regarding pressure ulcers and wound healing
- Pressure ulcers: Implementation of science and education
- Pressure ulcer prevention and management in specialist care settings and populations
- Pressure ulcers in spinal cord injured
- Pressure ulcer prevention and management within the homecare setting
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- The multidisciplinary approach to pressure ulcer prevention
- Student free paper session: Basic science
- Student free paper session: Clinical science


Get ready to have your excellent abstracts published!
The Scientific committee will select 6 most innovative abstracts submitted for the conference and the authors will have the possibility to publish those in the special issue of the Journal of Wound Care published for the occasion of the EPUAP Annual meeting in Lausanne!

