11. - 14. June 2026

Graz, Austria (more information to be announced soon)

Each ISSMGE Member Society will be asked to select two representatives to attend the young geotechnical conference. Ideally, they should be 35 years of age or younger at the time of the meeting. Senior geotechnical engineers will deliver keynote lectures and engage with the young engineer delegates during the technical sessions.

Franz Tschuchnigg
Institute of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Computational Geotechnics
Graz University of Technology

Haris Felic, Johannes Leo
Institute of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Computational Geotechnics
Graz University of Technology
iygec2026noSpam@tugraz.at

There is no specific conference theme, any topic related to geotechnical engineering is appropriate. Some examples are:

• Site investigation
• Laboratory and field testing
• Field monitoring
• Selection of design parameters
• Constitutive, numerical and physical modelling
• Shallow and deep foundations
• Deep excavations and retaining structures
• Tunnelling and underground structures
• Slope stability and landslides
• Infrastructure projects
• Ground improvement
• Mechanical, hydraulic and thermal behaviour of saturated and unsaturated soils
• Environmental Geotechnics
• Ground Modelling
• Data-driven methods
• Machine learning

• 31st March 2025: Deadline for participant nomination (extended to April 18th 2025)
• 31st May 2025: Confirmation of nominations and allocation of remaining spots
• 31st July 2025: Submission of extended abstract
• 28th November 2025: Formal acceptance of extended abstract
• 15th January 2026: Submission of final extended abstract

For information on the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Vienna, click here: https://www.icsmge2026.org/