Call for Abstracts – 14th Autism Europe International Congress, Dublin, 11th -13th September 2025

AsIAm, Ireland's Autism Charity, will be hosting the 14th Autism-Europe International Congress, which will take place from 11th – 13th September 2025 in the RDS in Dublin.

The theme of the 14th Autism-Europe Congress is Quality of Life: Research, Policy & Practice. We are delighted to announce that we are now accepting abstracts from interested researchers are autistic, who work to support autistic people or who have an interest in autism and wish to show neuro-affirmative research and practice.  

We encourage submissions from people with lived experience and from across all disciplines (e.g. science, arts, humanities, social sciences etc.), and submissions which promote rights-based and neurodiversity-affirmative approaches to research and practice.  

In keeping with this Congress's theme, we will accept abstracts on the following topics:

1. Improving physical and mental health (Including topics relating to both physical and mental wellbeing and access to the health care system)
2. Understanding ageing in autistic people
3. Supporting autistic people to thrive and find meaning in life (Including topics such as interests, joy, leisure & creative arts)
4. Vocation and employment
5. Creating safe and autism friendly environments (Including topics such as sensory, motor, socially safe, & predictable spaces).
6. Accessing learning across the lifespan (Including topics such as access to education from early childhood to higher education, ongoing access to lifelong learning and formal and informal coaching)
7. Gender and sexuality (Including topics relating to gender identity and expression, sexuality and sexual diversity)
8. Embracing intersectionality and underrepresented perspectives (Including topics relating to communities that have traditionally been underrepresented in research, policy and/or practice)
9. Accessing housing and autonomous living
10. Autism and overlapping neurodivergence
11. Autistic communication and autistic interaction
12. Advancing rights: from advocacy and activism to policy changes

Deadline for submissions is Friday 10th January 2025. You can find out more information, including the full details of the call for abstracts here.

We would very much encourage those interested to apply or share the call with researchers!