Dear Colleagues and Friends,

After a successful RAP 2024 conference , held in Granada, Spain, we are moving to an exciting Greek island of Crete. Namely, RAP 2025 will be held from 26-30 May 2025 at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) in Gournes, near Crete capital of Heraklion.

RAP 2025 will be a hybrid conference with full interaction between onsite and online participants. Conference publications are Book of Abstracts and Conference Proceedings. In addition, as usual, we are in talks with scientific journals regarding publishing of a special issue with full papers from the conference.

Greece’s largest island, Crete is the do-it-all destination of the Aegean. People come to Crete for the obvious: beaches, and the resorts that sit on them. But much more than that, Crete ticks many other boxes that make it an immersive European island getaway. For one, there’s incredible history here thanks to the millennia of civilizations—from the ancient Minoans to the Venetians, Ottomans, and everything in between.

We kindly invite you to submit your contribution(s) to RAP 2025. The deadline for submission of one page abstracts is 28 February 2025, and the deadline for full papers for the Proceedings/journal is 30 June 2024. Note that the registration fees (except the one for virtual offline participation) cover both publication of the abstract and submission of full paper in Proceedings or journal.

Please visit our website and follow us on Linkedin, Facebook and Instagram for updates. We would be grateful if you could spread a word about the conference within your research network.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time with your questions or suggestions.

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at RAP 2025.

Conference Chairpersons