SOFCOT – 100ème Congrès de la Société Française de Chirurgie Orthopédique & Traumatologique

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Call for papers now open!

On 12 January 2026, we will open the call for papers for the 2026 SOFCOT conference. The deadline is midnight on 15 March 2026.

Instructions to authors
This year, change of your abstract submission system

Please note that following a change in management, submissions and registrations are now managed via a new platform, myCongressOnline, on which you may already have an account if you have participated in previous specialist conferences (AFCP, SFA, SFCM, SOFOP, etc.).

Not sure if you already have an account?
We recommend that you create a new account: if you already have an account on our platform, an alert will be displayed and you can then reset your password to finalise your login.

You can use this same account to register, submit abstracts, view your programme, etc.

This year’s topics are:

  • CAOS
  • Ankle-foot
  • Shoulder-elbow
  • Knee
  • Knee ligament
  • Hip
  • Risk management
  • AI
  • Infections
  • Paediatrics
  • Wrist-hand
  • Spine
  • Traumatology
  • Sports traumatology
  • Tumours
  • Research

Once SOFCOT and the specialist societies have completed their review process, the results will be sent to bidders at the end of June 2026.

To be eligible for an award: the paper must be accepted for the conference and presented by an author under the age of 35.

The winners will be chosen by a jury based on the PowerPoint presentation of the abstract, which must be sent to the Society’s Secretariat (sofcot@sofcot.fr) before 11 September 2026.

Please note that any applications that do not meet the criteria will not be considered.

SOFCOT Award for Best Paper: €2,000
This award recognises the best paper presented by an author under the age of 35.

RELYENS Prize for Risk Management in Orthopaedics: €2,500
This prize rewards the best paper on risk management in orthopaedics.
Only papers that actually deal with risk management will be considered.

Frantz Langlais Innovation and Research Award: €2,000
This award is given to the author of a piece of fundamental (preferably) or clinical research, by a French author under the age of 35.
Only papers that genuinely deal with innovation and research will be considered.

Important: the abstract submission system is also available in English.