Important questions
and answers
What is the subject of this year's edition of the Symposium?
- During the 22nd edition of the Symposium 2026, the sessions will focus on topics such as:
- 1. The new scientific methods of handwriting and questioned document examination;
- 2. Innovative solutions of security printing;
- 3. Contemporary trends of handwriting and questioned document examination;
- 4. Artificial intelligence in handwriting and document research;
- 5. The digital world of documents and reality;
- 6. Handwriting examination versus graphology;
- 7. Examination of initials and graphometry;
- 8. Examination of biometric electronic signatures;
- 9. Examination of signatures;
- 10. Specific character of testament/last will examination;
- 11. Current issues of questioned document examination (physical and chemical analysis of inks, toners, paper, document dating research – ink, toner, paper);
- 12. Security features of documents and verification;
- 13. Supervision of expert witness qualifications;
- 14. International cooperation of handwriting and questioned document examination.
How are the deliberations conducted?
The tradition of Wrocław Symposia on Questioned Document Examination, disturbed only by the pandemic time, are the speeches of distinguished speakers, dynamic discussions of participants during the meeting, as well as fruitful backstage conversations and exchange of experiences during the refreshments organised for the participants.
We would like to maintain this tradition and invite you on 11-12 June 2026 to come to Wrocław and take part in our two-day conference at the University of Wrocław.
The organisational assumption is the meeting in a stationary formula for participants and for speakers.
However, in order not to deprive you of very valuable speeches of lecturers from distant locations who, due to the time and costs necessary for personal participation in the conference, could not reach us, we will connect with these people remotely.
The Symposium will be held in Professor Józef Świda's 2D room, in building D of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics (University Street 7-10) at the University of Wrocław in Wrocław.
The conference room has about 200 seats in a convenient amphitheatre layout for participants. We encourage you to register for the Symposium, which is limited by the above number of places.
What characterises the Wrocław Symposium on Questioned Document Examination?
It is one of the few scientific events on this subject in the world, which periodically takes place every 2 years in Wrocław since the 1980s.
Does the symposium deal only with issues related to forensics?
We also invite representatives of sciences from related to forensics disciplines to participate in the symposium - especially criminal procedure, civil procedure, criminology, psychology, psychiatry, chemistry, physics and computer science, as well as representatives of various legal professions such as judges, prosecutors, lawyers, notaries.
What will be the events accompanying the Symposium?
The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition of specialised equipment for document research.
What guests can be expected during the Symposium?
During the conference, a group of Polish scientists representing academic centres is expected, as well as experts from non-university institutes and scientific and research institutions, e.g. Polish Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych S.A. in Warsaw, Institute of Forensic Expertise. Jana Sehna in Krakow, the Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police Headquarters in Warsaw, the Polish Forensic Society, experts from police forensic laboratories of the Provincial Police Headquarters, the Capital Police Headquarters, the National Bank of Poland, the National Tax Administration, the Border Guard, the Military Gendarmerie and others.
We also expect experts on document research from countries such as: England, Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Germany, India, Latvia, Romania, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Israel, USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Malaysia and Polish and foreign individual experts.

