PIANC De Paepe – Willems Award
RULES FOR APPLICATION
FOR THE PIANC DE PAEPE - WILLEMS AWARD FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
THE AIM
The aim of the DE PAEPE – WILLEMS
Award is to encourage Young Professionals (YP) to submit technical papers in
the field of interest of PIANC.
SUBJECTS OF INTEREST
Technical submission must deal with
a subject in the field of navigation relevant to the Association.
The paper must be original and a
practical application of technology (state-of-practice).
THE JURY
A four-member jury will be appointed
by the Executive Committee (ExCom) in its autumn meeting and will be composed
of:
·
one member
of ExCom who will chair the jury, and
·
three
specially invited experts on the subjects covered in the submitted papers
The papers should be submitted by
August 31 of each year. If none of the papers meets the required standards, the
jury can decide not to grant the Award. The decisions of the jury will be
final.
The jury will also decide on what
submissions, besides the awarded paper, can be published in the Magazine.
The jury will convey its decisions
to the ExCom before its winter meeting.
CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE SUBMISSION
The jury will judge each paper’s
content by the following four criteria with equal weight, scoring the paper in
each criterion from 1(low) to 5(high):
Criterion 1. Value
and interest of the paper to professional peers
·
To what
degree is the subject matter current, in terms of developments now underway?
·
To what
degree can the findings and conclusions of the paper be readily applied by
others to related practical problems?
·
To what
degree can the experience documented in the paper be related by others to
similar situations elsewhere; i.e. are the "lessons learned" clearly
stated?
Criterion 2. Significance of the paper’s contribution to the
state-of-practice
·
To what degree
do the findings and conclusions of the paper advance the state-of-the-art?
·
To what
degree does the analytical experimental or field application results discussed
in the paper appear to be reproducible?
Criterion 3. The originality of the material
·
To what
degree is the perspective of the author on the subject matter unique in terms
of existing literature on similar topics?
·
To what
degree does the presentation discuss novel analytical procedures, experimental
methods, or field applications?
Criterion 4. Whether the writing style is clear, logical,
concise and easy to follow
·
To what
degree is the entire paper written in correct grammar and accepted technical
style?
·
To what
degree is the entire paper free of redundancy and superfluous comment?
·
To what
degree is the entire paper continuous and orderly, with each topic completed
before leading into the next topic in a logical manner?
THE AWARD
The Award
consists of an amount of 5,000.00 EUR and free membership of PIANC for a
five-year period.
The Award will be granted to the
candidate who submits the most outstanding paper selected by the jury in the
calendar year preceding the General Assembly (GA) at which the Award is
granted. In case of co-authorship, the Award will be granted to the principal
author of the paper.
The Award winner will be invited to
present his/her paper at the GA. Free hotel accommodation for three nights will
be provided, together with a payment of travel expenses in economy class to the
GA.
CONDITIONS TO BE FULFILLED BY THE CANDIDATE
a.
not
have reached the age of forty on December 31 of the year of submission of the
paper;
b.
submit
his/her paper, attached to the application form, to the General Secretariat of
PIANC before the August 31 of the year preceding the granting of the Award.
c.
be
the author or the lead author of a team
Submissions
must:
a.
not
exceed 8,000 words, excluding charts, graphs and illustrations;
b.
not
exceed a total of 20 pages;
c.
be
written in English including a summary and comply with the Guidelines to the Authors, details
of which can be consulted on the website;
d.
include
the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
e.
include an ID
picture of the author and some relevant key words.
Publication of submissions
The
Award-winning paper will be published in the Magazine.
The remaining papers may also be
published in the Magazine, according to the opinion of the jury.
After designation of the winner, the
Association also immediately identifies the contributions which are selected
for publication in the Magazine and retains copyright for those limited
contributions only.
The winners of the DPWA will be
presented on the international PIANC website with a curriculum vitae and a summary
of their paper.