Upcoming EsCHER Events & Award ceremonies

EsCHER organises an annual research excellence award and makes an appeal for sponsorship of events in Rotterdam.

Eddy van Doorslaer Research Excellence Award

Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Research is accepting (self-)nominations for the Eddy van Doorslaer Research Excellence Award. As of 2023, this award is presented to recognize excellent research in the broad field of Health Economics, including Health Technology Assessment and Health Systems and Insurance research. The prize will be awarded annually to an early career EsCHER affiliate with the best published paper in the previous calendar year.

As part of this research excellence award, laureates are awarded the opportunity to present at a symposium sponsored and hosted by EsCHER, which will be fully designated to the winner and their research interests.

Eligibility:

• The applicant is an early career researcher (formerly) affiliated with EsCHER:  either a research assistant, postdoctoral researcher, current or former PhD candidate employed by one of the EsCHER departments. Applicants who obtained their PhD should have graduated no more than five years ago. (Note: in future years, listing the EsCHER affiliation on your submitted paper will become mandatory).
• Each researcher can submit one manuscript that was published in the year 2024 and strongly contributes to the Health Economics literature, including Health Technology Assessment and Health Systems and Insurance research.
• The applicant must be the lead or corresponding author of the submitted manuscript or they must declare a contribution to its publication that is at least as large as that of any coauthor.
• Joint papers by two (or more) early career EsCHER affiliates are also accepted. The prize can be shared among the authors (if they meet the criteria) to encourage collaborations among early career researchers.

Organization:

• Apply by sending the manuscript to escher@eur.nl and varkevisser@eshpm.eur.nl with subject Eddy van Doorslaer Award for Research Excellence before 31 January 2025 23:59 CET.
• The content of the message should include: current and, if relevant, past affiliation, date of graduation (masters or PhD), declaration of contribution at least as large of any other coauthor if not lead or corresponding author.
• The winner is selected by a jury consisting of multiple EsCHER affiliates and Eddy van Doorslaer himself, who will base themselves on the manuscript’s contribution to the literature and quality and accuracy of the work.
• In the last week of April, the jury announces the winner through the EsCHER media channels.

EsCHER event funding

To further promote ongoing research and teaching efforts in the field of Health Economics, we are happy to announce this call for EsCHER funded events in 2025.

Objective & scope

This call for events offers EsCHER affiliates (i.e., researchers) who are members of or affiliated with the research groups listed on this page to organize events that align with EsCHER’s goals of promoting health economics research and teaching in Rotterdam. The funding call is aimed to cover the costs of expenses arising from organizing such an event (e.g., venue costs, catering, travel costs for international participants), excluding personnel hours.

EsCHER will consider supporting events up to a total of € 1000-1500 per event. The available budget allows for multiple events to be granted funding. Note that this call is intended for EsCHER members to organize events on the EUR campus taking place before 31/12/2025 that benefit EsCHER members and their visibility, not to support EsCHER members to visit events or travel, even if this is to disseminate EsCHER research.

Examples of events that would be considered eligible:

• EsCHER lectures by international experts on health economics topics
• Organizing a symposium surrounding inauguration/PhD defenses or a topic of interest
• EsCHER graduate course on topics or skills relevant to the health economics field
• EsCHER research workshop with international participants

Application process and procedure

The deadline for applications to be submitted is March 26th 2025. The submissions will be reviewed by the EsCHER board, consisting of the department heads of each of the research groups that are part of EsCHER.

Applicants should consider including in their submission the following: 

1. A short description of the event (~300 words)
2. A motivation on how EsCHER affiliates could benefit from the event (~300 words) 
3. Provisional budget. 

Please note that EsCHER provides only financial support and helps with communication for the event through its social media channels (i.e., the organization of the event will fall onto the applicant). Hence, ideally applications also describe how the event will be set-up and advertised to potentially interested EsCHER affiliates.

Applications should be submitted to the EsCHER at escher@eur.nl. If you have any queries or would like to discuss a potential event, please contact us at escher@eur.nl .