ECCRE has three research prizes:
1. The ECCRE Research Award
2. The ECCRE Best Presented Research Award
3. The ECCRE Young Researcher of the Year Award

The three prizes and guidelines are presented here:

The ECCRE Research Award (EUR 7,500)
This prize cannot be applied for but will be assigned to an international research person or institution, which have done an outstanding and unique contribution to research within the chiropractic field in Europe. Any ECU member can nominate candidates for this prize.

The ECCRE board will decide to which candidate the prize should be assigned.

The ECCRE Best Presented Research Award (EUR 3,500 – financed by the ECU Convention budget)
This prize will be assigned to a researcher who has submitted an original abstract to the ECU conference at a given year. It will be with a focus on the presentation performance on research projects of an excellent quality.

The Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) will evaluate the original research abstracts and the presentation at the conference.

The ECCRE Young Researcher of the Year Award (EUR 2,000)
This prize will be assigned to a young researcher, who has submitted an abstract to the ECU conference at a given year. There will be a focus on a person, who is an early career researcher with a talent and a dedication to pursue a full-time research career within the chiropractic profession. The research should be of excellent quality.

Criteria to be named young:

Not necessarily followed a formal research career, produced less than 10 peer reviewed articles
Maximum 3 years after having been assigned the PhD degree (shall be documented)
Has a goal of working as a full-time researcher

The AAC will evaluate the original research abstracts done by young researchers at the ECU conference.

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