The Symposia will cover the most recent topics on research and clinical practice, including:

• Integrated care for chronic respiratory disease
• Similarities and differences between asthma and COPD
• Novel molecular targets for inflammatory and infectious lung diseases
• Challenges in sleep medicine: ventilatory failure during sleep
• Noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure
• Treatment of the bacteriological variety in lung diseases
• Food allergy and asthma: issues and controversies
• Treatment of bronchial infection
• Effective oxygen therapy in home care
• Asthma and sports
• Severe exacerbations in asthma and COPD: new causes, new mechanisms, new models of care
• Breathing therapies for asthma
• Lung cancer: progress after first-line therapy and customised chemotherapy
• High priority questions on airway infections in diseases seen in children and adults
• Nutrition and cancer

The Congress Programme will be online in April 2010.

Clinical Trials and Lunchtime session submission proposals should be submitted by 8 April 2010. Click here for more information about submissions.

• Adult and paediatric respiratory physicians, intensive care specialists, respiratory oncologists, thoracic surgeons, radiologists, GPs and other clinicians;
• nurses and physiotherapists;
• researchers in respiratory science;
• advocates and researchers in public health and health promotion, including environmental and occupational health.
  

Take the opportunity to apply online to one of the ERS Main Awards:

• COPD Research Award
• Maurizio Vignola Award on Innovation in Pneumology
• Romain Pauwels Research Award
• Research Award on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
• Paediatric Research Awards
• Thoracic Oncology Research Award

More information for guidelines and application form - click here

Deadline: 8 March 2010

15 grants of € 1,000 each, kindly supported by Boehringer Ingelheim, are given to presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts related to COPD and

• who are presently conducting originial research in COPD
• who are 45 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who are ERS members
• whose abstract is accepted for poster presentation
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years
• whose research has not been previously sponsored by pharmaceutical companies

The award of € 1,000 must be used by the winner as a support to attend the Barcelona 2010 Congress (travel, accommodation, etc.) and present the selected poster.

Five grants of respectively € 1,500 (1^st prize), € 1,000 (2^nd prize), € 500 (3^rd to 5^th prize) kindly supported by DeltaCell, are given to presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts

• to Group 1.2 "Rehabilitation and Chronic Care" (please consult the description of Group 1.2 that can be found under Group 01.02 Rehabilitation and Chronic Care to have a detailed list of the topics covered by these grants)
• who are 40 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Two grants of € 1,000 each, kindly supported by Olympus Medical Systems Europa GmbH, are given to presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts

• who have submitted the best abstract submitted to Group 1.4 "Interventional pulmonology"
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Two grants of € 1,500 each, kindly supported by ResMed Asia Pacific, are given to presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts

• to Group 2.2 "Noninvasive ventilatory support"
• who are 35 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Five grants of €1,500 each, kindly supported by AstraZeneca, will be given to presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts

• to any group of Assembly 3 "Cell and Molecular Biology"
• who are 40 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

One grant of € 1,500 kindly supported by MEDGRAPHICS, is given to the presenting author who has submitted the best abstract

• to group 4.1 "Gas Exchange and Exercise"
• who is an ERS member
• who has never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Three grants of € 1,000 each, kindly supported by Weinmann, are given to the presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts

• to Group 4.2 "Sleep and control of breathing"
• who are 40 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

One grant of € 1,000 kindly supported by AstraZeneca, is given to the presenting author who has submitted the best abstract

• to Group 4.4 "Pulmonary circulation and pulmonary vascular disease"
• who is 35 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who has never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Three grants of respectively € 2,000, € 1,000 and € 500 kindly supported by ChiesiGroup, are given to the presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts

• to any group of Assembly 5 "Inflammatory Airway Diseases and Clinical Allergy"
• who are 40 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

A Blackberry® Smart Phone is offered by Peter Holmes to the presenting author who has submitted the best abstract

• to any group of Assembly 6 " Occupation and Epidemiology Assembly"
• who is 35 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who has never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Three grants of € 1,000 each, kindly supported by Bayer Schering Pharma AG, are given to the presenting author who have submitted the best abstract

• to Group 7.6 "Paediatric Respiratory Epidemiology"
• who is 40 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

One grant of € 2,000 kindly supported by Astellas Belgium, is given, in recognition of advances in the field of lung transplantation, to the presenting author who has submitted the best abstract

• to Group 8.2 "Transplantation"
• who has never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Two grants of € 1,500 each kindly supported by Cellestis, are given to the presenting authors who have submitted the best abstracts

• to any group of Assembly 10 "Respiratory Infections"
• who are 40 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who have never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

One grant of € 1,500 kindly supported by Brahms, is given to the presenting author who has submitted an excellent abstract related to  Respiratory Infection Aetiological Diagnosis

• to any group of Assembly 10 "Respiratory Infections"
• who is a member of the ERS
• who is 35 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who has have never won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

One grant of € 1,500 kindly supported by Oxford Immunotec Ltd, is given to the presenting author who has submitted an excellent abstract related to tuberculosis

• to group 10.2 "Tuberculosis"
• who is a member of the ERS
• who is 40 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who has never won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

One grant of € 3,000 kindly supported by Hain Lifescience GmbH, is given to the presenting author who has submitted an excellent abstract related to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

• to group 10.2 "Tuberculosis"
• who is a member of the ERS
• who is 35 years of age, or under, at the time of the application deadline
• who has never have won this specific grant previously, nor any other ERS award or grant in the last two years

Take the opportunity to apply online to one of the ERS Specific Grants:

• Sir John Vane Award for Innovation in Pulmonary Vascular Research
• Paediatrics Lifetime Achievement Award
• Allied Respiratory Professionals Congress Travel Grants

More information for guidelines and application form - click here

Deadline: 25 February 2010

Sponsorship opportunities are available to the corresponding author of an accepted abstract from Eastern and Central European countries and developing countries. The ERS offers two levels of sponsorship, Gold and Silver, which are awarded depending on the quality of the abstract as evaluated by the Scientific Programme Committee.

• Gold Sponsorship: the corresponding author receives a fixed amount to cover travel and accommodation expenses, free Congress registration and two Postgraduate Courses;
• Silver Sponsorship: the corresponding author receives a fixed amount to cover accommodation expenses, free Congress registration and two Postgraduate Courses.
  

In addition, the ERS is pleased to support young scientists attending the ERS Annual Congress. The ERS Young Scientist Sponsorship is intended for young scientists, from all countries, who are nonmedical doctors, and who would not normally receive support from pharmaceutical companies to attend the Congress.

Grants of € 600 grant intended to cover travel and accommodation, in addition to free registration to the Barcelona Congress, are granted to a limited number of presenting authors of the selected abstracts.

Applicants for ERS Young Scientist Sponsorship should be aged 35 years or under on 18 September 2010 and hold a PhD with no medical degree. Application must be made on the electronic abstract submission form.

ERS sponsorship will be granted to the authors of the best abstracts based on the reviewers’ scores and comments. Candidates will be informed of the Scientific Committee’s decision in May 2010.