1. Organising Committee
A European
jury will select the two best scientific posters.
Awards: 2 awards of 500 € each.
2. UEMS - PRM Section and Board
Criteria: UEMS-PRM Section and Board will
give 10 awards of 500 € each to the ten best oral papers presented at the
Congress by trainees or by specialists less than 5 years after their diploma.
Participants: PRM Trainees or Specialists
less than 5 years after their diploma from any country from Europe. The
specialists must be Board Certified.
Selection: Will be done during the
Congress and winners will be notified. The jury will
be
composed of various European delegates.
Awards: 10 awards of 500 € each.
3.Trans-European Scientific Contest (TESC)
This is an
initiative taken by the European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation
Medicine
(ESPRM) to encourage PRM residents to conduct research into this specialty
and to
acknowledge their work.
Each of
the European countries will be represented.
Participants: The contest is open to PRM
residents and rehabilitation specialists within
two years
of certification. Each country will designate one PRM resident to present an
oral
paper.
The paper
may have several authors, but only one presenting author.
Presentation: The paper should be
presented in English to a jury composed of ESPRM
members
from different European countries. The date and hour will be provided in the
congress
programme.
Selection: The jury will be composed
of one representative member from each participating country and chaired by the
president of the European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. The
presentations will be judged on relevance, scientific level and presentation
skills.
Award: The winner of the contest
will receive an award and there is a cash prize for the
3 best
presentations (first 1000 €, second 600 € and third 400 €).
How to proceed: The names of the selected
candidates and the title and abstract
of their
presentation should be sent to Dr. Koen Matthys (e-mail address:
koen.matthys@ugent.be)
before 31 March 2008.
4. Best research Award ‘Europa Medicophysica’
Awardoffered by the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Selection: The
scientific committee of the congress will select 25 abstracts and send them to
the Editorial Board of the journal which will choose the best 10. The
winner will be judged during a special session at the congress where a
jury made of members of ESPRM, members of the congress scientific committee and
members of the Editorial Board of the journal will assign the final prize.
Award: The best
paper will be published in the journal ‘Europa Medicophysica’.