Important Dates
| Pre-Conference Preparation | Date |
| Deadline for abstract submission (1 page / max. 500 words online without template) | 20 May 2021 |
| Notification of acceptance to present (in-person or virtually) at the MedGU | 10 July 2021 |
| Opening of online registration to attend (audience) / present or to publish only at the MedGU (authors of accepted abstracts only) | 10 July 2021 |
| Deadline for submitting a revised abstract (1 page / max. 500 words online without template) | 20 July 2021 |
| Notification of acceptance or rejection of revised abstracts | 25 July 2021 |
| Publication Plan: The Proceedings (optional) | Date |
| Invitation to submit (optional) an extended abstract (based on the accepted short abstract), i.e. a short proceedings paper (4 pages using this Template) | 10 – 25 July 2021 |
| Deadline for submission of extended abstracts (short proceedings papers) | 25 August 2021 |
| Peer review process | 25 August – 31 December 2021 |
| Final Notification of acceptance to publish in the proceedings | 31 December 2021 |
| Signature of the Springer Consent-to-Publish Form | 31 December 2021 |
| Submission to Springer of the proceedings after English revision (free-of-charge) of accepted papers | 31 January 2022 |
| Typesetting, proofreading, corrections and production of the MedGU proceedings by Springer | 31 January 2022 – 30 April 2022 |
| Online publication of the proceedings in the Springer ASTI Book Series (indexed in Scopus) | 1 May 2022 |
| Conference Preparation & Plan | Date |
| Deadline for online registration to attend/present or to publish only at the MedGU | 20 August 2021 |
| Deadline for registration payment as confirmation of participation (see payment rates on Registration) | 15 October 2021 |
| Conference days | 25 – 28 November 2021 |
| Publication Plan: The Special Issues | Date |
| Invitation (after the conference) to submit in the special issues | 10 December 2021 |
| Deadline to submit the full paper to the special issues (see partner journals on Publications) | 31 March 2022 |
| Publication of the full special issues (however, papers will appear online as soon as accepted) | 31 December 2022 |