Applications for the Young Investigators Award (YIA) that meet all of the requirements are welcome to be submitted online, using the abstract submission process of the upcoming ECSS Congress. 

Criteria for the YIA:

• You submitted only one paper as the first author for participation in the YIA 2023: by 15 February 2023.
• You paid your ECSS Membership 2023 and became an ECSS Student Member for 2023 or ECSS Member for 2023: before 15 February 2023.
• You submitted your signed and stamped YIA Verification Form 2023*: before 15 February 2023.
• You are 35 years of age or younger at the time of the deadline for abstract submission (15 February 2023)
• Please send us a copy of your ID to verify that you were born after 15 February 1987
• You are presently enrolled as a student at a university or you were awarded your PhD degree within two years of the deadline for abstract submission (15 February 2023).
• As a previous YIA winner, you do not take part in the same category again (oral/conventional poster).
• You paid your registration fee for ECSS Paris 2023: before 28 April 2023.
  
  *The YIA Verification Form 2023 should be verified by an authorised person (Head of Institute) in the YIA applicant's department who should also certify that the YIA applicant has made an independent and reasonable contribution to the work submitted for presentation.

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