The States General host a multidisciplinary Doctoral School of industrial archaeology that aims to share current research and experiences in the field of doctoral studies. The Doctoral School will have a special session, designed to support the comparison between PhD students and researchers experts in the field. For this reason, the presentation of the papers will include a 3-minute video session followed by an open session discussion of the proposed research.

For the conference participants who intend to participate in the Doctoral School it is sufficient to indicate in the submission form on Easy Chair the specific indication “contibuto per doctoral school”. The procedure for submission of the abstract and full paper is the same as the other contributions presented at the conference. Following the acceptance of the abstract, the instructions of the committee for the realization of the video will be sent to the speaker. The contributions submitted for the Doctoral School session can cover all the topics proposed in the subject areas. The selection of best papers will be made in proportion to the number of participants, and all papers from the Doctoral School will also be published in the proceedings.

General conditions of participation:
Each author may submit a single paper, but since the purpose of the States General is to permit the widest comparison, it is permitted for members of working groups and research to be co-authors of more than one paper, with the notice that each paper is presented by a different pre-registered corresponding author, in accordance with the payment of the registration to the conference

Papers may not be published and submitted with corresponding author who is not regularly registered at the congress or who has already submitted another paper as corresponding author.
In order to ensure the regularity of the submission of contributions, it is therefore imperative that each corresponding author, in good standing with the registration, be associated with one paper. When registering for the conference, each participant will be asked to indicate the paper code of which he is the corresponding author.

It is still possible to register for the congress without submitting contributions.