![]() | Partners and Events | No.58 January 2010 |
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To encourage research, study and new ideas leading to the
development of the sport of athletics, European Athletics hereby invites
entries for the 2010 European Athletics Innovation Awards.
The competition is open to individuals or teams of scientists, academics,
students, coaches, event organisers and others from European countries
who wish to share their original work for the benefit of the sport.
Categories
Entries will be judged under the following categories:
Assessment and Awards
The entries will be assessed by a jury of European Athletics experts on the
basis of their quality and relevance to athletics.
A cash prize of CHF 2,000 will be awarded to the entry judged the best of
each category.
Provided they meet the minimum quality standard set by the jury, the
category winners will advance to the final round, from which an overall
winner will be selected. The criteria for selection of the overall winner will
be “importance to the development of athletics.”
An additional cash prize of CHF 10,000 will be awarded for the winning
project.
The individual author or the team leader of the winning project and an
accompanying person will be invited to attend the Award Ceremony in
Novi Sad in October 2010 at European Athletics’ expense.
Entry Requirements and Format
Entries do not need to have been previously published. However, if the
work covered has already been published the date of publication must
be after 1 January 2009.
Entries must be electronic manuscripts of up to 15 A4 pages (11pt font,
single line spaced), not including the cover page, in pdf format. Entries
should include the following information:
The title of the project should appear on the cover page and on each
page of the manuscript but there should be no identification of the
author(s).
Please note that the submission of a photocopied article or paper in a
format other than that described above will be considered incomplete
and will not be judged.
Tables, figures and bibliography may be included as separate file
appendices to the entry. Scientific papers or copies of published articles
may be submitted as separate file appendices to the entry.
Additional Requirements
Entries must be accompanied by separate files containing the following:
Submission of Entries
Entries must be sent by email and received by 31 May 2010 at the
following address:
Enquiries may be sent to the same address. Additional information,
including past winners is available on www.european-athletics.org.
Notification
All participants will be notified by email of the projects receiving awards.
Results and other information will be posted on the European Athletics
website.
Please note that the decisions of the expert judges and the European
Athletics appointed jury will be final.
Lausanne 6 January 2010 |