The kick-off meeting for the European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) took place among steering committee members in December 2013 on occasion of an international workshop at ArgLab, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

The first conference, ECA 2015, is scheduled for summer 2015, and will take place in Lisbon. The call for papers is expected in Spring 2014.

Among others, Fabio Paglieri (Rome) was elected chair of the steering committee, and Jan Albert van Laar (Groningen) as deputy chair.