Award competition
CED-IADR
Attention Young CED-IADR Researchers! Advance Your Career with Prestigious Grants & Awards
The CED-IADR invites you to apply for our Grants and Awards Competition—an exciting opportunity to be celebrated for your innovation and dedication. With multiple award categories available, this is your chance to showcase your research on a prominent stage and take your career to the next level.
When submitting your abstract, you can apply for the following awards & grants:
1. Robert Frank Competition
- Category UNDERGRADUATE (reserved for undergraduate students/studying for their first university degree)
- Category POSTGRADUATE - Basic Science Research for post-graduate and Ph.D. students or up to 3-year Postdoc’s (maximum 3 years after Ph.D. defence at the time of application). Laboratory or animal research.
- Category POSTGRADUATE/Clinical Research for post-graduate and Ph.D. students or up to 3-year Postdoc’s (maximum 3 years after Ph.D. defence at the time of application). Research on human subjects or involving epidemiology.
2. 'My First Research' Poster Award
Showcase your first research efforts
3. Best Poster Prize
Is open for undergraduates, postgraduate students or early career researchers (within 5 years of receiving your Ph.D).
4. Best Clinical Case Prize
Is open for undergraduates, postgraduate students or early career researchers (within 5 years of receiving your Ph.D).
5. Travel Grant
Financial support to travel and present your Research at CED/NOF-IADR 2026 Oral Health Congress
Don't miss your chance to shine among the brightest in the dental research community! Visit our official website for detailed guidelines: https://www.ced-iadr.eu/ced-iadr-grants-awards-prizes
NOF
Awards - NOF-IADR Hatton Competition
Every year, NOF invites young researchers to enter the Nordic Hatton Award Competition
Each year, The Scandinavian Association (division) for Dental Research (most often called NOF = Nordisk Odontologisk Förening) sends qualified young researchers to compete in the world-wide IADR Hatton Competition. Representatives are selected on the basis of an (oral presentation) competition at the annual NOF scientific meeting.
Requirements
The competition is open for:
1) undergraduate students
2) post-graduate students under Masters, PhD, or speciality training
3) post-doctoral researchers (within 3 years of their PhD defence date at the time of grant application)
Entrants must be a citizen of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway or Sweden – or persons of other nationalities whose research was conducted in one of these countries.
The candidate MUST be a member of NOF.
The research may not have been published (even as an abstract) or presented at any national or international meeting (excluding state, regional, or institutional meetings) prior to competition. Persons who have previously won the competition, may not participate again.
Application
Submission of an abstract for the NOF Annual Meeting is made via the normal online process by the abstract submission deadline date and click for NOF Hatton award – or contact NOF’s secretary: Ulvi Gürsoy (ulvi.gursoy@utu.fi) for information. NOF will contact the applicants and give them further information.
Judging Criteria
The NOF Review Committee (three persons) will evaluate the work/performance as follows: 40% for verbal presentation (not more than 10 minutes), 30% for question-and-answer period (not to exceed 5 minutes), and 30% for scientific merit.
The following will be considered:
– originality and design of the investigation
– quality of the data produced
– suitability of the methods of analysis used
– scientific value of the work
– quality of the oral presentation
– demonstrated mastery of the subject
Awards
All entrants will receive a certificate confirming participation. NOF will select the two most outstanding presentations. These two will receive a monetary award (1000 euro each) and a certificate. The winners will have the opportunity to compete (with winners from other Divisions and sections) in the world-wide IADR/Unilever Hatton Competition at the next IADR international conference. Expenses in connection with attendance of the winners at the international conference (airfare, hotel and meeting registration) will be covered.
Travel Grants
Each year, NOF offers travel grants to young researchers attending the regional (NOF, CED, PER) IADR congress.
The Scandinavian Association for Dental Research (a division of IADR, also known as Nordisk Odontologisk Förening, NOF) each year offers travel grants to young researchers attending the regional IADR congress where NOF is participating. Applicants for the NOF travel stipend must submit an abstract for presentation at the meeting.
The travel stipend is currently worth 5000 SEK. Selection of stipend recipients will be based on a competition judged by a scientific committee for the best abstracts.
The travel stipend can be attributed to:
1) undergraduate students
2) post-graduate students under Masters, PhD, or speciality training
3) post-doctoral researchers (within 3 years of their PhD defence date at the time of grant application)
Applicants must be citizens of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway or Sweden – or citizens of another nationality in case their research has been performed in one of the mentioned countries.
Candidates MUST be a member of NOF.
Application process:
1) Submit your abstract for the IADR meeting via the congress online abstract submission system
2) At the online submission system, choose “NOF Travel Stipend”
3) After the abstract evaluation process, all travel stipend applicants will receive an email from NOF, where they will be asked to send the following documents to NOF:
- A cover letter, where the applicant states that he/she is applying for the NOF travel stipend, is a member of NOF, and is accepting the grant rules,
- The abstract acceptance letter sent by IADR,
- A letter of confirmation by the main supervisor, explaining where the research (or major part of it)