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Instructional Courses

ESCRS 2025 Instructional Course submissions are now closed. Thank you for your contributions.

Instructional Course Submission Deadline: 31 October 2024 (23:59 CET)

Notifications to Submitters: By December 2024

Please note that no extension is possible. Courses received after the deadline will not be accepted.

Guidelines for submission:

  1. Each course has a course director who formulates the programme, submits the course and is responsible for the delivery of the programme.
  2. The course director must obtain written or email agreement of all speakers before submission of the abstract and include a valid email address for each speaker.
  3. Each person can be a director of a maximum of 2 courses.
  4. Each person can be a speaker or director in a maximum of 4 courses.
  5. The duration of all courses for 2025 will be 90 minutes.
  6. There must be a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 faculty members (and the course leader is considered as one of the faculty members).
  7. Use a short and scientific title for your Instructional Course abstract.
  8. A declaration of interest for each faculty member needs to be included; specifically you must indicate whether the course leader or any of the faculty members has a financial interest in the subject matter or receives funds from any mentioned company.
  9. The course leader must be present throughout the full duration of the course and the faculty members should be present for as much of the course as possible.
  10. If your course is accepted, you will be given a date and time for presentation. It is not possible to cancel an accepted course. Courses take place on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the Annual Congress.
  11. Instructional Course faculty who fail to turn up or arrange replacement speakers, will not be permitted to present in courses at future ESCRS Congresses.
  12. All submissions are reviewed by 3 independent reviewers. A sub-group of the education committee then reviews all courses to pre-select for final approval by the entire committee.
  13. ESCRS receives many more submissions than can be accepted, for example for Barcelona 2024 – only 111 courses from 370 submissions were accepted.
  14. If a course has been accepted for one or more years, it does not necessarily mean it will be accepted in the future.
  15. The factors and criteria for successful submission and ICC acceptance are:
  • Topic of interest – we attempt to have most topics of interest covered by courses, trying to avoid having repetition of the same topic.
  • Level of the course stated – basic/advanced.
  • If held previously – number of participants (taking into account the day and time at Congress), and the evaluation scores.
  • Selected topics as identified by the education committee may result in courses to be invited if no submissions have been received on those topics.
  • Courses with international faculty from different countries have a higher chance of acceptance.
  • Courses on a single product stand a lower chance of acceptance.
  • Courses that are novel and have not yet been held may stand a higher chance of acceptance.
  • Aim to have a good gender balance.
  • The abstract should be as complete and informative as possible within the word count limit; one-line submissions are unlikely to be successful.