Duties of the Chair of the Paper Selection Committee (PSC)

The duties of the Chair of the PSC are the following:

1. Choosing the reviewers who will evaluate the abstracts;
2. Deciding the cut-off score and other criteria for the acceptance and rejection of abstracts;
3. Close interaction with the Chair of the Scientific Committee, especially before Council Meetings to prepare reports;
4. Preparing lists of Oral Presentations Focussed-Orals and e-posters, according to the scores given by the reviewers;
5. Sorting out the Grant Winners (including the “Altruistic Survey by Questionnaire” – ASQ winners);
6. Sorting out the Best Abstracts;
7. Preparing the programme of Free Communications sessions for the Congress;
8. Preparing the programme of Focussed-Oral sessions for the Congress;
9. Preparing the programme of moderated e-poster sessions for the Congress
10. Preparing and distributing to the Council statistical data about the abstracts: number received, acceptance rate, etc.;
11. Taking part in the Scientific Committee;
12. Any other task that the Council decides.