Important Dates

Stay tuned for important updates regarding ICL2026! Key dates, including submission deadlines, registration periods, and program announcements, are shown in the table. Nevertheless, it’s essential to keep an eye on our communications to ensure you don’t miss any critical information about the conference.

Date Activity
01 Apr 2026Submission of:
(i) structured abstracts (for full/short papers) for the conference
(ii) Special Session proposals
15 Apr 2026Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the conference
Special Sessions notification and announcement
15 May 2026Submission of:
(i) complete papers for all submission types
(ii) proposals for round tables, workshops, tutorials
15 Jun 2026Notification of acceptance
15 Jul 2026Camera-ready due/Final upload
15 Jul 2026Author registration
30 Sep 2026ICL2026 Conference Opening

Keynotes

Klaus Peter Jantke
Klaus Peter Jantke

The Educational Potential of Time Travel

Everyone is familiar with mental time travel. What would have happened if I had ...? What will happen if I seize the opportunity and ...? Mental time travel has a significant influence on the development of the human brain. Understanding mental time travel as a form of knowledge representation is one of the more recent achievements in cognitive science. It is a challenge for research and development in the field of educational technologies to make use of mental time travel. The biggest challenge is to make time travel a tangible experience in educational applications. This overlaps with digital storytelling for educational purposes. Storytelling is an ancient VR technology. Digital games provide the methodological and operational framework for not only having stories told to learners, but also contributing to shape them. Storytelling is transformed into story engagement. In a time travel prevention game, learners experience the opportunity to impact fate. Experienced stories of success are a pleasure to remember and worth telling. The remembered journey through time is a form of knowledge representation, affective and, thus effective and sustainable.

The speaker

Klaus Peter Jantke is a distinguished German mathematician, computer scientist, University teacher, and academic researcher specialising in artificial intelligence, educational technology, game studies, and gamification. Born in East Berlin in 1951, he completed his Abitur in 1970 and studied mathematics at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he earned a diploma with a thesis awarded the Karl-Weierstraß Prize in 1976. He attained his PhD in 1979 with a thesis on the performance and complexity of universal Methods for recognizing general-recursive functions, earning the Humboldt Prize from Humboldt University. Jantke's academic career includes becoming a full professor at the age of 35 in theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence at Technische Hochschule Leipzig. He has taught at several international universities and contributed to numerous research projects funded by German federal ministries, NATO, and other institutions. Notably, he established the competence centre for e-learning at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence and was Germany’s first professor of computer games in 2006. His leadership roles include heading multimedia applications and children’s media departments at various institutions like Technische Universität Ilmenau and Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology. He also founded the German Games Master Class and has been a prominent keynote speaker at international conferences on digital games and virtual crimes. Since 2016, he has served as Chief Scientific Officer at ADICOM and consulted for the Sino-German Industrial Design Centre for economic cooperation development.

Committees

ICL General Chair

  • Michael E. Auer, CTI, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

ICL2026 Conference Chairs

  • Tiia Rüütmann, IGIP President, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia
  • Anja Richert, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Valérie Varney, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Dominik May, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Honorary Advisors

  • Manuel Castro, UNED, Spain
  • Xavier Fougier, Dassault Systèmes, France
  • Hanno Hortsch, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Hans J. Hoyer, IFEES/GEDC General Secretary

International Chairs

  • Samir El-Seoud, The British University in Egypt (Africa)
  • Xiao-Guang Yue, Wuhan, China (Asia)
  • Alexander Kist, University of Southern Queensland (Australia/Oceania)
  • David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning New York, USA (North America)
  • Uriel Cukierman, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional Argentina (Latin America)

Technical Program Chairs

  • Vanessa Mai, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Marcel Freimuth, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Sebastian Schreiter, IAOE, France

Workshop and Tutorial Chair

  • Valérie Varney, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Special Sessions Chair

  • Vanessa Mai, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Publication Chair and Web Master

  • Sebastian Schreiter, IAOE, France

Award Chairs

  • Marcel Freimuth, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Andreas Pester, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt

Senior Program Committee Members

  • Eleonore Lickl, IGIP Vienna, Austria
  • Andreas Pester, The British University in Egypt
  • Herwig Rehatschek, Medical University Graz, Austria
  • Cornel Samoila, Romania
  • István Simonics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
  • Thrasovolous Tssiatsos, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Doru Ursutiu, University of Brasov, Romania
  • Axel Zafoschnig, IGIP, Austria

Program Committee Members

  • Gustavo Alves, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
  • Abdallah Al-Zoubi, PSUT, Amman, Jordan
  • Santi Caballé, UOC, Spain
  • Alberto Cardoso, UC, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Dan Centea, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • Tinashe Chamunorva, Pulsonix Solutions, Zimbabwe
  • Ralph Dreher, University of Siegen, Germany
  • Martin Ebner, TU Graz, Austria
  • Ian A. Grout, Univeristy of Limerick, Ireland
  • Christian Guetl, TU Graz, Austria
  • Unai Hernandez-Jayo, University of Deusto, Spain
  • Rania Hussein, University of Washington, USA
  • Hants Kipper, TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Oleksandr Kupriyanov, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
  • Maria Arcelina Marques, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
  • Jorge Membrillo-Hernández, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
  • Jürgen Mottok, OTH Regensburg, Germany
  • Stavros Nikou, University of Strathclyde, UK
  • Stamatios Papadakis, University of Crete, Greece
  • María Isabel Pozzo, National Technological University, Argentina
  • Kalyan Ram B, Indxo AI, Bangalore, India
  • Teresa Restivo, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Fjodor Sergejev, TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Mária Szalmáné Csete, BME, Hungary
  • Doru Ursutiu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
  • Matthias Utesch, TUM, Germany
  • Hendrik Voll, TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia
  • James Wolfer, IUSB, IN, USA

Local Organizing Committee

  • Vanessa Mai, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Bianca Griech, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Marcel Freimuth, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Johannes Kubasch, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Karsten Schmidtseifer, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Christian Sauder, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Markus Jahn, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Program

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Workshops

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Registration & Fees

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ICL2026 – Author and Participant Registration Early Bird Fee until 15 Jul 2026 Standard Fee until 1 September 2026 Late Fee after 1 September 2026
Author – Regular1,5 570 EUR N/A N/A
Author – Members of IAOE, IGIP, IEEE & IELA1,5 520 EUR N/A N/A
Author – Low-income Countries1,2,5 and Ukraine 370 EUR N/A N/A
Author – Student with ID1,3,4,5 370 EUR N/A N/A
Participant – Regular5 470 EUR 490 EUR 530 EUR
Participant – Low-income Countries2,5 and Ukraine 270 EUR 290 EUR 330 EUR
Participant – Student with ID4,5 270 EUR 290 EUR 330 EUR
Options
Additional Paper (max 1) 190 EUR N/A N/A
Gala Dinner (for on-site participation only) tbd EUR
Accompanying Person5 170 EUR
Pre-conference Special Workshops6 50 EUR

Only one paper is included with the registration. For more papers (max 1 additional ones, i.e. 2 in total), please select "Additional papers".

  • 1 Includes one paper presentation, publication and indexing (if presented). The presenting author MUST register until 15 Jul 2026 to include the paper in the conference program.
  • 2 Authors/participants who work and live in low-income countries. For the list of low income countries see: http://data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-income
  • 3 Student fee for an author is applicable, if the paper was solely written by students, a confirmation about the student status from the university is necessary.
  • 4 A student ID card must be uploaded during the registration.
  • 5 Includes welcome reception on September 29th plus coffee breaks and lunch during conference program from September 30th to October 2nd. The fee doesn't include the conference Gala Dinner.
  • 6 Access to the special pre-conference workshops organized on September 29th, including coffee break

Social Events

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Conference Dinner

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