Report on the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026)
A. Anand, J. Urbano, Z. Ren, S. Verberne, M. Heuss, B. Mitra, M. Fröbe, J.H. Merker, H. Scells
ACM SIGIR Forum, vol. 60, no. 1, 2026.
Abstract
The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) was held in Delft, the Netherlands, during 29 March-2 April 2026. The conference took place at Lijm & Cultuur, a former glue factory centrally located between the historic city centre and the TU Delft campus; the tutorial day was hosted on the TU Delft campus. ECIR 2026 was an exclusively in-person event, with authors unable to travel supported by proxy presenters, and attracted a record number of 476 participants from academia and industry making it the most attended ECIR till date. Building on recent editions, ECIR 2026 introduced several novelties, most notably the promotion of the IR-for-Good track to a parallel core track of the main conference anchored around the theme What is IR-for-Good?, the addition of a resource paper track, and the integration of IRRJ paper presentations into the main programme.