ECNP Regional Meeting
Scientific programme
The scientific programme is considered the most important part of the ECNP Regional Meeting. As a rule the scientific programme consists of keynote lectures, symposia, educational meet-the-expert sessions and poster sessions. For each regional meeting an independent Scientific Programme Committee is established, which endeavours to compose a high-quality, well-balanced scientific programme. Invitations and refunds for speakers and chairs are arranged by ECNP.
Poster sessions are scheduled during the lunch breaks to enable participants to have ample time to discuss the data presented. Additional emphasis is placed on the posters by awarding the most outstanding posters with the ECNP Regional Poster Award and the best papers for posters of local young scientists with an ECNP Regional Travel Award.
Young scientists from European CDE countries are encouraged to present posters by offering free registration in case the submitted paper is accepted for publication in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology.
The scientific programme is presented for European accreditation.
Participation at the ECNP Regional Meetings is open for interested individuals and groups.
The ECNP Regional Meeting is held biennially in different regions of Europe whose scientists have limited opportunities to attend the congress.
Disclosure
ECNP requests speakers, chairs and poster presenters to disclose potential conflicts of interest. This will allow the audience to take potential conflicts of interest into account when assessing the objectivity of the presentation.
Speakers are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current presentation in the first slide of their presentation. Chairs are requested to disclose potential conflict of interest regarding the topics of the presentations during their session in the first slide of the session. Poster presenters are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current poster presentation at the bottom of their poster. Potential conflicts of interest can involve: grants, honoraria, shares, paid positions on advisory boards, etc.
Support
The only possibilities for industry-supported activities during the ECNP Regional Meetings are satellite symposia and exhibition stands.
Companies are treated as equal to one another as possible and there is no first-come-first-served policy. Applications for satellite symposia should be sent in before a certain deadline and the programmes have to be approved by the Scientific Programme Committee of the regional meeting. For the approved satellite symposia a balanced allocation is developed by ECNP with respect to timeslots and locations.
The exhibition should be medically oriented. Exhibition space is allocated after the deadline for receiving applications.