ESE WLADIMIR ADLIVANKINE RESEARCH PRIZE REGULATIONS

AWARDED AT
BIENNIAL CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDODONTOLOGY

Instructions for Entry

The European Society of Endodontology offers a biennial prize, to be administered and awarded by the ESE Research Committee for the encouragement of research related to Endodontology.

The regulations governing the award of the prize are:

1. The prize shall be known as the
   
   WLADIMIR ADLIVANKINE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDODONTOLOGY RESEARCH PRIZE
   
   The value of the award is 1,250 EURO and a certificate.
   
   
2. The prize shall be awarded for a paper delivered in English at the Biennial Congress of the European Society of Endodontology in accordance with the rules outlined below. More than one author can be associated with a paper but only the first author will be eligible for the prize.
   
   
3. Candidates will normally be no more than 35 years of age and have published no more than 5 full articles in international dental journals. Candidates must be a member of a national endodontic/dental society that is a Full or Associate member society of the ESE. No individual may win the prize more than once.
   
   
4. The Research Committee of the ESE will select from the submitted abstracts and papers, no more than five papers to be read. Oral presentations shall not exceed 15 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. Computer projection facilities will be available. Candidates selected to enter for the Research Prize will be exempt from the registration fee to the scientific section of the congress.
   
   
5. The prize shall be awarded by the Research Committee of the ESE on the recommendation of a panel of at least three assessors appointed biennially by the Research Committee. The assessors will take into account the originality of the research; its relevance to Endodontology; the methodology, results and discussion; the standard of the abstract; and the clarity of the presentation.
   
   
6. Candidates are required to submit the full paper that must be divided into a structured Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and References not later than 1st March in the year of the Biennial Congress Submissions must be original, and neither have been published nor be under consideration by a scientific journal.
   
   
7. The abstract must be submitted following the information provided on the ESE web site.
   
   
8. The Research Committee of the ESE reserves the right to withhold the award of the Prize if the entries or candidates are of insufficient merit.