The International Personal Armour Committee (IPAC) is pleased to announce that PASS 2025 is hosted in Belgium, at the BMCC in the City of Bruges, the capital of the West-Flemish Province. PASS 2025 will offer an outstanding opportunity for the exchange of views and experiences in the field of personal armour systems in an operational environment.

PASS is the only scientific symposium exclusively dedicated to the personal protection that brings together technical experts and scientists in that field. It provides a unique opportunity:

• to interact with key players in this field of activities

• to discuss the scientific and technological challenges

• to discover the latest technical and commercial innovations

PASS 2025 will be the 17th in a series of symposia, which began at SCRDE in Colchester, UK.

PASS Symposia have been traditionally hosted by European countries every 2 years since 1990. The massive participation from North America has encouraged alternating the venue between the two regions. The last Symposium in 2023 took place in Dresden, Germany. The PASS Conferences attract more than 200 attendees from countries around the world.

Experts will share the results of the latest research and discussions will allow inputs from participants. Attendees will include representatives from defence and academic research organizations, industry, military and police forces. Symposium subjects include personal protection, military and police body armour, helmets, EOD protection and associated medical implications. In conjunction with the symposium, there will be an industry area to allow the discussion, illustration and promotion of ideas and equipment from our sponsors and exhibitors.

The International Personal Armour Committee (IPAC) is responsible for the selection of papers to be presented at PASS 2025. Every submission will be peer-reviewed and papers will be selected on the basis of technical merit, originality, clarity of presentation and general interest.

Marketing presentations will not be accepted. The IPAC encourages industry to present research aspects behind innovations in materials and personal armour end items. The presentation of the paper at the Symposium can either be an oral presentation or a brief oral introduction followed by a poster session. A short curriculum vitae (200 words max) and recent photograph of the presenter should be submitted with the paper (template will be made available online). Abstracts and all papers must be UNCLASSIFIED and cleared for public release. The official language of the symposium will be English. Full papers, when submitted, should include significant results, figures and references.