With less than three months to go until we bring skeptics from all across Europe to Liverpool for the 2026 European Skeptics Congress, we’re delighted to announce three new additions to our line-up: physicist and author Jim Al-Khalili, journalist Mike Wendling, and Internet culture and feminist podcaster Lily O’Farrell.

Every year, people from across Europe tell us they'd love to come to ESC but can't quite make it. If that's you, we have good news: you can now watch ESC from home with a streaming ticket.

Tickets to the European Skeptics Congress 2026 are now on sale. Europe’s leading gathering for science, skepticism and critical thinking returns to the UK for the first time for over a decade.

The 21st European Skeptics Congress 2026 will take place on 16–18 October 2026 at The Liner Hotel, Liverpool.

The European Skeptics Congress has been bringing skeptics together across Europe since 1989. The congress was first held in Germany, attracting around 150 participants to the town of Bad Tölz in Bavaria.

In the decades since, it has travelled from Brussels to Amsterdam, from Stockholm to Ghent, from Vienna to Wrocław - with the UK hosting first in 1993 and again in 2003 and 2015.