The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the information retrieval (IR) field.

ECIR 2026 is seeking proposals for half-day (3 hours plus breaks) tutorials covering topics relevant to the field of IR and its applications. Each tutorial should cover a single topic in depth. For example, tutorials may cover an established IR sub-topic, introduce an emerging topic in IR and its application, or update the IR community on recent advances in other relevant fields, such as natural language processing, recommendation systems, artificial intelligence, or machine learning. Tutorials are encouraged to be as interactive and hands-on as possible (e.g., having exercises the participants can complete during or after the tutorial).

There are no restrictions on who can present during a tutorial (e.g., PhD students may present). However, all tutorials must be delivered "in person", and it is strongly recommended that an experienced academic or industry practitioner is involved.

ECIR 2026 is committed to improving the field by making the research community more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We strongly encourage tutorial organisers to ensure that their organisation committee is diverse and includes women and members from other underrepresented groups. The diversity of the organising committee will be considered during the review process as a factor for acceptance.

Topics of Interest

The topics generally align with those outlined in the Call for Full papers for ECIR 2026; proposals on other topics related to IR are also welcome.

Submission Guidelines

Tutorial proposals should contain the following information:

• Title of the tutorial;
• Motivations, learning objectives, and scope of the tutorial, and its relevance to the information retrieval community;
• Tutorial format, length (3 hours plus breaks), and a detailed outline;
• Target audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills required;
• Tutorial history (previous tutorial offerings, if any) and reference to tutorials in the subject area held at ECIR or other related conferences (including SIGIR, WSDM, WWW, KDD, ACL, EMNLP, RecSys, ICML, etc.);
• Detailed contact information of all presenters (and an indication of the primary contact person), including a brief biography (max. two paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant experience in presenting tutorials, teaching grad classes, or organising summer schools;
• Citations to publications covered by the tutorial and support materials to be supplied to attendees.

Tutorial proposals should be prepared using the Springer proceedings template found on the Springer webpage (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), with a maximum length of 8 pages, including references. All proposals should be written in English and submitted electronically through the conference submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2026.

The ECIR 2026 tutorial committee will review tutorial proposals. The ECIR Tutorials co-chairs will make the final decisions. The review process is single anonymized ("single-blind") so that personal or institutional repositories can be used for the submission. The organisers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the ECIR 2026 conference proceedings.

Ethics and Professional Conduct

ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely:

• The ACM's Policy on Authorship,
• The ACM's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct,
• The ACM's Conflict of Interest Policy,
• The ACM's Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification,
• The ACM's Policy Against Harassment