Call for Session Proposals

We invite IAH Commissions, Networks, and the wider groundwater community to propose scientific sessions for the IAH 2026 Congress in Budapest, Hungary.

Deadline: 31 January 2026 (extended till 10th of February)

Sessions should align with the Congress topics below

Please submit your proposal including:

Proposed session title
Related congress topic(s) (below)
Brief session description (4–6 sentences)
Keywords (4–6)
Proposed conveners:
- 1 Session Chair
- 1 Co-Chair (and, if possible, additional Co-Chairs, including ECHN colleagues)

How to submit:

Please email your proposal to iah2026@ttk.elte.hu with the subject line: “Session Proposal – [Session Title]”

Thank you for your contribution to shaping a strong and diverse scientific programme.

Local Organizing Committee – IAH 2026 Budapest

Topics

Interacting groundwater systems in the Water Cycle

Water-rock interaction

Deep and shallow groundwater interaction

Groundwater, soil and vegetation

Basin scale groundwater flow

Karst hydrogeology

Deep groundwater systems and processes

Coastal aquifers

Fractured rock aquifers

Isotope geochemistry

Processes in the unsaturated zone

Groundwater in green transition

Geothermal and mineral resources

Challenges of energy transition (HC, Li)

Groundwater and sanitation (wastewater as a resource)

Groundwater and circular economy

Construction and mining interventions into groundwater

Conjunctive water management

Transboundary aquifers/Groundwater without borders

International groundwater governance

Living laboratory for sustainable groundwater management

Groundwater/ecosystem services

Groundwater-surface water interaction

Next generation solutions

Numerical simulations

AI in groundwater studies

Experimental developments, lab and field applications

Just transition/development

Pollution and remediation, emerging contaminants

Drivers of changes - Monitoring

Climate change adaptation

Living with water scarcity and drought

Impacts of extreme events on groundwater

MAR and adaptation

Anthropogenic effects / Human interventions to water cycle

Groundwater and resilient cities

Groundwater and Social awareness/Society

Citizen Science

Sanitation and poverty

Groundwater and health

Education

Key dates:

28 February 2026Extended abstract submission

2 April 2026 Notification of abstract acceptance

30 April 2026Early registration fee payment deadline

31 August 2026Late registration fee payment deadline

IAH 2026

World Groundwater Congress

53^rd Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists