During the 17th EAHP congress, in Milan 2012, EAHP will once again offer the Student Science Award to one or several European Pharmaceutical Student Association (EPSA) students, hence recognising and honouring the best scientific research manuscript authored by an undergraduate student. This award recognises a student's significant intellectual contribution which promotes the state of the art in hospital pharmacy and pharmaceutical research methods or theories.

EPSA students and members are invited, through their organisation to submit manuscripts to an EAHP jury, who will select the best paper. The latter will be presented during the congress and published in EJHP.

Nature of the Award:
First author of the winning article will receive free attendance to the17th EAHP Congress in Milan and €500 for travel and accommodation expenses, plus official recognition of the winner during the EAHP Congress closing ceremony.

Eligibility Criteria:
Any manuscript under the category of original research, case reports, scientific commentary and review articles, written by any undergraduate hospital pharmacy student(s) submitted for peer review by 15 January 2012 and approved for publication on or before EJHP March 2012 issue in the EJHP journal, will be eligible for this competition.

Submission Procedures:or
Any EPSA member may submit a manuscript following the EJHP Guidance for Authors. The manuscript shall be submitted to coo@eahp.eu .

A complete copy of the manuscript must accompany the submission.

A cover letter should be provided that states why the article represents an outstanding contribution to the field of hospital pharmacy and describes how it advances hospital pharmacy research, clinical, scientific, technical, economic and social aspects of pharmacy and therapeutics or affects health policy.

Review and Selection:
The EAHP- EPSA Student Science Award Jury serves as the review and selection committee for the Student Science Award. The jury will select the single best manuscript that shows significant insight into hospital pharmacy research from all those submitted based on its scientific quality and societal relevance. The committee has the discretion to not make the award in any given year.

Award Presentation:
The EAHP-EPSA Student Science Award will be presented during the closing ceremony at the EAHP Annual Congress in Milan, Italy on Friday, 23 March 2012.

EPSA – European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association

The European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (EPSA) is a non-profit and non-political association which represents 33 Pharmacy Students’ Associations from 29 countries, representing around 120.000 pharmacy students all over Europe. Its main objective is ‘to develop the interests and opinions of European pharmacy students and to encourage contact and collaboration between them’.

Actually, EPSA’s motto “Bringing Pharmacy, Knowledge and Students Together” reflects its will to promote the ideas and opinions of all the students of Pharmacy in Europe in order to improve the Education, the Pharmaceutical Profession and the Scientific Advances regarding Pharmacy.

EPSA has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, in PGEU’s offices.