Life Improvement Science Conference on June 09-13, 2021 in Landkreis Tuebingen, Germany

The first Life Improvement Science conference will be held online between June 9 to June 13, 2021.

The goals of this conference are:

1. Build a supportive community of researchers and practitioners interested in life improvement science and its applications.
2. Work towards a shared understanding of the most important open questions of the field and how they can be answered.
3. Provide an overview of some of the most important research that has been done in different areas of life improvement science.
4. Foster intellectual exchange and collaboration across different fields.

The conference events will include invited big-picture talks about promising approaches to life improvement science and its future directions, interactive discussions, the collaborative curation of our field's most important open questions, contributed presentations of recent work, opportunities to collaborate on developing new ideas and establishing life improvement science, structured networking sessions, the founding meeting of the life improvement science society, and plenty of opportunities to get to know each other and have a good time. We invite you to shape the LIS conference by submitting proposals for any talk you would like to give and any kind of event you would like to organize.

If you would like to receive the call for submissions and other updates about the LIS conference, just send an email to [email protected] and we will keep you posted.

The Life Improvement Science conference invites abstracts for talks, posters, tutorials, symposia, panel discussions, and other events on topics relevant to life improvement science. There will be two types of talks: short presentations (10-20 min) and longer thematic talks on big ideas (30-45 min). A virtual poster session will be held at gather.town. We especially encourage contributions that further the dialogue about what the most important open questions of life improvement science might be and how they can be addressed. Your talk or panel discussion could highlight one or more important questions that life improvement science should address or present findings, methods, or ideas relevant for addressing open questions about well-doing, optimal personal development, and reducing ill-doing, such as these.

The final abstract submission deadline is April 16, 2021, at 23:59 Anywhere On Earth time. Your abstract can be up to 500 words long. To submit your abstract please use this form.

Participant organized sessions

In addition to these peer-reviewed submissions, participants can also organize meet-ups, group discussions, focus groups, and question sessions via this form.

• Focus groups will bring together conference participants to collaborate on important intellectual or practical challenges throughout the conference and will have the opportunity to present their results at the end of the conference.
• Question sessions start with the organizer asking a thought-provoking question (1-2 minutes) followed by the other participants pondering the question and then sharing their answers.
• Group discussions can focus on any topic relevant to Life Improvement Science.