EOIs for breakout sessions and poster presentations now open
Expressions of interest (EOI) from individuals, organisations, networks, and peaks across the community legal sector to develop a breakout session at the 2025 National Community Legal Centres Conference (National Conference 2025) are now open.
In 2025, individuals, organisations, networks and peaks can also apply to display a poster onsite during the conference.
Please read our EOI submission guidelines for breakout sessions and posters before you start your application.
Key dates
- EOI submissions close on Friday 21 February 2025.
- Authors will be notified of the outcome of their breakout session submission in the week of 7 April 2025; all communications about your EOI submission(s) will be sent to the email address you provide in your application.
- Authors will be notified of the outcome of their poster submission in May; we will prioritise assessing breakout session EOIs in March and early April so that we can release a draft program to the sector before conference registration opens.
- We will release a draft conference program to the sector by mid-April; early-bird registration will open soon after.
Other important information
- EOI applications will be submitted via an online form. The form has strict character limits. You will not be able to exceed the set limits. We encourage all applicants to plan your submission carefully.
- We are committed to using National Conference 2025 to provide platforms and spaces to hear from people with lived experiences of legal systems, and of community legal sector services. We encourage applicants to consider the conference byline, Walking with people and communities to improve access to justice, and include perspectives from lived experience in submissions.
- If an EOI submission is incomplete it may impact your chances of selection.
- All presenters must register and pay to attend National Conference. Submitting an EOI does not automatically register you as a delegate.
- In 2025, the National Conference will also include a poster exhibition. If you would like to display a poster rather than present a breakout session, you can use the same process as submitting an EOI for a breakout session.
- Applicants who submit a breakout session EOI can also indicate interest in presenting their session concept as a poster in the event that their breakout session is unsuccessful.
- If you are submitting more than one session or poster EOI, you will need to submit a separate form for each submission and complete all the relevant sections.
Plan your EOI submission
We strongly recommend you do the following before you start filling out the online submission form.
- Read our EOI submission guidelines for breakout sessions and posters
- Read about our conference breakout session streams, identify which stream your EOI submission falls within and think about how you will demonstrate the connection between your session idea and the selected stream in your EOI submission.
- Pre-prepare your EOI submission. In 2025, submissions will be made via an online form. The character limits set out in the EOI submission guidelines are strict, i.e. the form will not allow you to go exceed them.
If you would like to submit multiple EOIs, please remember to submit a separate form for each one.
Please email conference@clcs.org.au with any questions about the EOI process.
