Code of Conduct
The International Conference on Nitrification and Related Processes (ICoN) aims to convene meetings that are welcoming, respectful, inclusive, and collaborative. This Code of Conduct applies to all ICoN-sponsored or -related events that occur in connection to its biannual international meeting.
Expected Behavior
- Treat everyone with respect.
- Respect your fellow participants by using good practices for intercultural collaborations.
- Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants.
- Provide your true professional identity, affiliation, and, where appropriate, contact information, at registration, and during attendance and participatory sessions, as required.
- Respect use of presented materials and ideas. ICoN meetings encourage the presentation of unpublished research and you are expected to respect the confidentiality of all presentation materials unless you obtain specific permission from all the authors concerned.
- Respect the rules and policies of the meeting venue, hotels, online platform, or any other venue.
- Be Accountable: When we as organizers or participants fail to meet these guidelines, work together to identify problems and adjust policy and practice together.
Anyone not meeting expected, collaborative, respectful behavior can be immediately removed from the current online or physical meeting and may be banned from future ICoN meetings or reported to University or local authorities, depending on the specifics of the unwelcomed disruptive behavior.
Examples of unacceptable behavior
- Promoting or participating in harassment, bullying, discrimination, or intimidation on-site, online, and/or on social media.
- Verbal, written, or other forms of abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, staff member, service provider, or other guest.
- Examples of abuse include, but are not limited to, verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces or in presentations.
- Threatening or stalking in-person or online.
- Disruption or disallowing participation by others.
- Criminal offenses.
- Failure to follow meeting protocol.
- Physical or verbal abuse, including attacks on ideas vs. respectful, disagreeing dialogue.
- Use of social or mainstream media to target individual actions of participants in a way that could harm their privacy or professional status or open them to slander or libel.
- Knowingly violating copyright or copying presenter information without obtaining permission
Consequences and reporting unacceptable behavior
Anyone requested to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. Anyone violating the Code of Conduct may be removed from the current meeting and future meetings at the discretion of the ICoN meeting steering committee.
As part of registration for an ICoN event, all attendees are expected to provide their true professional name and primary affiliation and contact information including an email address and phone number.
If you experience or witness behavior that constitutes an immediate or serious threat to public safety at an on-site meeting, contact 110 or locate the local host and ask for security. Please report other incidents or suspected incidents to ICoN staff, leadership, or local host.
Acknowledgement and agreement to abide by the ICoN Meetings and Events Code of Conduct is required at registration for any online or on-site event.