SOFA Week 2025

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The SOFA Week is designed to gather the entire SOFA community, to present technological and scientific advances, while fostering the networking within the community. Previous occurrences made it as the most popular even within the community. Check out the previous 2024 edition. This year, we are back onsite with live demos!

24-28th November

Onsite in Lille & possible online access

24th Nov 2025:   Training session

For the first time this year, two parallel training courses will be proposed to open SOFA Week. On the one hand, an introductory course to SOFA, providing interested participants with a hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of SOFA, the community and the theoretical foundations of simulation. On the other hand, an advanced course on soft-robotics, with theoretical explanations on robotics with soft bodies and a practical part for building your first simulation.

25th Nov 2025:   International SOFA Symposium (free)

The symposium focuses on research and scientific achievements based on SOFA. This symposium allows international researchers from the SOFA community to present their scientific work, their plugins and propose live demonstrations. It is also the annual meeting where companies using SOFA can demonstrate their latest products. Finally, it is the opportunity to meet the community and create strong collaborations.

26-28th Nov 2025:   Technical committee (free)

This committee focuses on technical discussions on current and future developments in SOFA. With developers of the community and SOFA Technical Members, the technical roadmap for the next release is jointly designed. It is also a unique opportunity to meet the developer community and code all together.

Day: 24th November 2025
Location: ESPRIT building, avenue Paul Langevin, Villeneuve-d’Ascq → Find your way)
Level: Beginner – Medium (max 8 participants)

Registration costs

  • early bird: 500€ excl.tax. (before the 10th October 2025)
  • regular fare: 650€ excl. tax.

Save your seat at registration

Introduction course

This training session aims at providing a wide introduction to SOFA and its community while ensuring the mathematical, physical and computer science backgrounds in order to start in the best conditions with SOFA.

Time (CET) Training steps
9 am Overview of SOFA and its community
10 am Coffee – for a good start!
10:30 am Examples of applications with SOFA
11 am User Tutorial (part 1)
noon Lunch
1:30 pm User Tutorial (part 2) – involving SofaPython3
3 pm Coffee break
3:30 pm Understand physics with SOFA: from the math to the code
5:00 pm Questions & Closing of the training

Soft-robotics course

Requiring mastery of the basics introduced in the introduction course, this advanced session allows to understand the theory of soft-robotics and it offers the opportunity to build soft-robotics simulations.

Time (CET) Training steps
10 am Basis on time integration in SOFA
10:30 am Soft robots: actuators
noon Lunch
1:30 pm Soft robots: kinematic jacobian
2:30 pm Soft robots: inverse kinematics
4:00 pm Questions & Closing of the training

Day: 25th November 2025
Location: ESPRIT building, avenue Paul Langevin, Villeneuve-d’Ascq → Find your way)

Researchers and companies from the SOFA community join the Symposium in order to share ideas, experiences and to present their on-going research or products based on SOFA. Several sessions of presentations will be organized regarding various simulation topics and application fields. Booths will also be made available for technology demonstrations.

Suction cup simulation from the Defrost team

This international event is an exciting opportunity, fostering discussions and new collaborations!

Call for presentations

All researchers, engineers and students are welcome to present their work on Tuesday 25th November 2025. Duration of the presentation will be between 15 and 20 minutes (including questions) depending on the number of selected submissions. Breaks are scheduled after each sessions to foster discussions and connections.

To present your work at the SOFA Symposium, all you need is to mention your interest in presenting your work at the symposium, to share a (non-definitive) title for the pre-program and to write a short abstract (no more than 200 words) upon registration.

Register to submit your abstract

Important Dates

  • October 24th, 2025: submission deadline for presentation proposals
  • November 7th, 2025: notification to authors
  • November 14th, 2025: registration deadline for the SOFA Week


Day: 26-28th, November 2025
Location: ESPRIT building, avenue Paul Langevin, Villeneuve-d’Ascq → Find your way)
Level: All

The week will close with the 20th SOFA Technical Committee. This technical committee governs and takes all technical decisions for the roadmap towards upcoming releases. This committee is free and open to all. Don’t hesitate to take part and find out how our open-source software project is managed!

Confirm your attendance at registration

Wed. 26th November 2025

  • Consortium news & SOFA activity
  • Update on the v25.12 roadmap
  • Provisional v26.06 roadmap
  • Scientific and technical strategy of the project

Thur. 27th – Fri. 28th November 2025

  • v26.06 roadmap completion
  • Scientific watch” sessions
  • Pre-defined technical discussions
  • Possible coding sprint

This year again, the SOFA consortium has the pleasure to organize the Open-Source SOFA Awards!

All contributions are eligible for application: it can be an open-source plugin, a pull-request on GitHub, a video, a tutorial or documentation pages! Two award categories are open for competition:

Organizers’ Prize        –   600€ Public Prize        –   400€

The call for the SOFA awards is open until the 7th of November 2025. Any contribution – as long it is open – will be rewarded at the SOFA Week 2025. Winners will be announced during the Symposium on 25th November.

Apply for the SOFA Awards 2025

Previous winners

Organizers’ Prize Public Prize

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