Call for Pa­pers

Be­ a speak­er at the 29th In­ter­na­tio­na­l Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce!

Join us in Inns­bruck on 2 and 3 April 2027 and share your pro­ject ex­per­i­en­ces, re­search res­ults, new tools, and in­nov­a­tions with highly mo­tiv­ated en­ergy ef­fi­ciency ex­perts from all over the world!

Submit an abstract
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We are look­ing for sub­mis­sions on the fol­low­ing top­ics:

Architecture AND Performance
  • Project highlights worldwide

  • Multi-storey residential buildings, affordable housing, non-residential buildings and special use cases

  • Buildings under challenging climatic conditions

Retrofits AND acceptance
  • Fast and simple retrofits

  • Retrofits for homeowner associations

  • Retrofitting heritage buildings

Transformation AND renewables
  • Low energy consumption as a prerequisite for energy positive buildings and districts

  • Energy efficiency strategies for reducing emissions at the district level

  • Sufficiency and efficiency - What do we need to cut back on in construction, and what do we need more of?

Components AND concepts
  • Energy-efficient components taken a step further

  • Clever concepts for façade integration

  • Complete systems from one source

Technology AND people
  • Balanced ventilation - high air quality in new builds and retrofits

  • Experiences with user-friendly heat pump solutions

  • Electrification of building services in existing buildings

Sustainable AND cost-effective
  • Passive House or EnerPHit - it's worth it! Proven financing models

  • Life-cycle optimised projects including material choices

  • Fit for a hotter future - resilient buildings

Tools AND quality
  • PHPP and supplementary tools

  • Methods and field reports on quality insurance during the design and implementation phases

  • Facts and figures: Successful monitoring concepts and results

Consultancy AND education
  • The Passive House standard in energy consulting

  • Field reports on (further) education programmes

  • Concepts for involving interested young people

Politics AND society
  • Policy and incentives that contribute to stability, resource equality and the prevention of conflicts

  • Socially equitable distribution of renewable energy and measures to tackle energy poverty

  • Proven and innovative communication strategies

Guidelines for your ab­stract sub­mis­sion

Please pre­pare a text doc­u­ment with max. 3,000 char­ac­ters in­clud­ing spaces. Dur­ing the sub­mis­sion pro­cess, you will be asked to copy and paste your text in­to a des­ig­nated dia­logue box. In the fol­low­ing step, you will have the op­por­tun­ity to up­load up to 3 pic­tures and/or graphs in a sep­ar­ate up­load field.

If your ab­stract deals with a build­ing pro­ject, please pay par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to the fol­low­ing as­pects if pos­sible:

  • Did you face any chal­lenges (e.g.: Was it a her­it­age build­ing? Did you have to use in­teri­or in­su­la­tion?)? Which strategies did you choose to over­come
          these chal­lenges?

  • What are the les­sons learned? What would you do dif­fer­ently if you had to re-start the pro­ject?

  • Did you im­ple­ment in­nov­at­ive strategies that were new in your pro­ject coun­try or that had not been ap­plied to your spe­cif­ic build­ing type be­fore?

  • If avail­able, please provide the (ex­pec­ted) yearly run­ning costs and the (ex­pec­ted) in­vest­ment pay­back.

  • If avail­able, please in­clude user feed­back.

  • Please provide as much de­tail as pos­sible and avoid vague lan­guage or rhet­or­ic­al ques­tions!

Wich­ti­ge In­for­ma­tio­nen für Be­wer­ber*in­nen

The Ad­vis­ory Board for the 29th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce will ev­al­u­ate all ab­stracts.

If you are se­lec­ted as a speak­er, we ask you to con­trib­ute to the event by:

  • Giv­ing a 20- to 25-minute pre­sent­a­tion (1 speak­er and max. 1 co-speak­er; short group Q&A at the end; us­ing a Power­Point slideshow is re­com­men­ded)

  • Sub­mit­ting a 2-, 4- or max­im­um 6-page art­icle to the di­git­al con­fer­en­ce pro­ceed­ings (you choose the length)

  • At­tend­ing the con­fer­en­ce in Inns­bruck, Aus­tria (at a re­duced speak­er price)

We in­tend to re­cord all ses­sions and share them as on de­mand videos with the con­fer­en­ce par­ti­cipants after the event. If you are a group of au­thors, please choose one speak­er and max. 1 co-speak­er. Nat­ur­ally, you can list more au­thors in your art­icle for the con­fer­en­ce pro­ceed­ings.

We look for­ward to read­ing your ab­stracts!

To en­hance your chances in the se­lec­tion pro­cess, please care­fully read the guidelines for your ab­stract sub­mis­sion. We will send you an email with the res­ults of the se­lec­tion pro­cess in Novem­ber 2026.

If you have any ques­tions or com­ments re­gard­ing the Call for Pa­pers or the 29th In­ter­na­tio­na­l Pas­sive House Con­fer­en­ce in gen­er­al, feel free to get in touch at conference@passiv.de or (+49) 6151 82699 109.