Awards

• First prize of the Best Oral Paper Award: 300€ + free registration for the 2026 SEME Congress
• Second prize of the Best Oral Paper Award: Free registration for the 2026 SEME Congress
• Third prize of the Best Oral Paper Award: The winner will receive a commemorative diploma

The award will take effect following publication of the relevant article in the SEME journal.

• Manuscripts are to be submitted exclusively through the form available on the SEME website.
• The guidelines for the preparation and submission of abstracts can be reviewed here.
• The deadline for submitting abstracts is 25 November 2024.
• Only registered Congress participants may submit a manuscript.
• The maximum number of authors allowed for a manuscript is six.
• An author cannot submit more than one manuscript, although they can contribute to several articles as co-authors.
• All manuscripts must be submitted in Spanish.
• Acceptance of manuscripts will be announced via email from 22 December 2024
• In case reviewers request changes to a manuscript, authors must re-submit their modified article within 72 hours.
• Accepted abstracts will be published in the SEME journal exactly as they have been submitted.
• The jury will announce the Award winners at the Congress’ closing ceremony.

• First prize of the Best Poster Award: €300€ + free registration for the 2026 SEME Congress
• Second prize of the Best Poster Award: Free registration for the 2026 SEME Congress
• Third prize of the Best Poster Award: The winner will receive a commemorative diploma

The award will take effect following publication of the relevant article in the SEME journal.

• Manuscripts are to be submitted exclusively through the form available on the SEME website.
• The guidelines for the preparation and submission of abstracts can be reviewed here.
• The deadline for submitting abstracts is 25 November 2024.
• Only registered Congress participants may submit a poster presentation.
• The maximum number of authors allowed for a manuscript is six.
• An author cannot submit more than one manuscript, although they can contribute to several articles as co-authors.
• All poster presentations must be submitted in Spanish.
• Acceptance of poster presentations will be announced via email from 22 December 2024.
• In case reviewers request changes to a poster presentation, authors must re-submit their modified article within 72 hours.
• Accepted abstracts will be published in the SEME journal exactly as they have been submitted.
• The jury will announce the Award winners at the Congress’ closing ceremony.

• The winner will benefit from free registration at the 2026 SEME Congress
• The award will take effect following publication of the relevant article in the SEME journal.

The jury will announce the Award winner at the Congress’ closing ceremony.

• The winner(s) will benefit from free registration at the 2026 SEME Congress

The jury will announce the Award winner at the Congress’ closing ceremony.

• The Award will be endowed with the sum of €1,500
• Candidates are invited to submit entries for the fourth edition of the Juan Ramón Zaragoza Award to the best journalistic piece on aesthetic medicine published or broadcast during 2024. The Award will be endowed with the sum of €1,500. The deadline for submissions is 30 January 2025.
• The Award terms and conditions are as follows:
• The Juan Ramón Zaragoza Award will be granted to the best journalistic piece written in Spanish and published in the press or broadcast on radio or television, including the digital media, which in the opinion of the jury has best contributed to the dissemination, promotion and communication to society of the values of aesthetic medicine and its practitioners.
  
  • The current edition of the Juan Ramón Zaragoza Award is endowed with €1,500. The jury may additionally decide to grant a second prize of €500.
  • Applications can be filed in one of the following ways:
  • At the behest of medical associations or scientific societies.
  • At the behest of a media company.
  • At the behest of public institutions, non-governmental organizations and patient associations.
  • By candidates themselves

The organisers may at their discretion and at any time exclude a candidate from the Award because they consider the candidate’s participation inappropriate or inconvenient, or because the candidate has infringed any of the norms in the present document.

• The candidate’s CV together with a digital copy of the journalistic piece to be entered for the Award must be emailed to the Congress Secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), stating Premio Juan Ramón Zaragoza in the subject of the email.
• Candidates must submit their applications before 30 January 2025. The organizers reserve the right to make the decisions necessary to ensure proper conduct of the Award proceedings, which candidates expressly undertake to accept. To the extent allowed by law, the organizers reserve the right to modify the terms and conditions of the Award or to cancel the Award at any time. Any changes to the Award or the cancellation thereof will come into effect on the date they are announced, without contestants being entitled to make any claim against the organizers on that account.
• The jury in charge of selecting the Award winners will be appointed by SEME from among outstanding representatives of the journalistic, medical and academic professions.
• The jury may declare the Award null and void if, in their opinion, none of the pieces submitted meet the established criteria. Exceptionally, the jury may award special mentions with no economic endowment, if it deems it appropriate.
• In addition to selecting and announcing the winner(s), the jury will be responsible for interpreting the Award terms and conditions and establishing how they are to be enforced. SEME will be responsible for disbursing the prize money to the winner(s). Should there exist reasonable doubt that a contestant has committed irregularities or fraud, or does not meet the Award eligibility criteria, SEME will be entitled to withhold any amounts that may be due to them, or claim any amounts already disbursed.
• In case of error, misunderstanding or conflict with respect to any part of the Award proceedings, or to the validity of any piece submitted, the decision made by the jury will be final and not subject to appeal.
• The Juan Ramón Zaragoza Journalism Award will be deemed to have been conferred once the winner has been notified and has accepted the prize. The winner(s) must agree to be presented with the Award at the time and place determined by SEME. Failing that, the jury will declare the Award null and void or select a different winner.
• The jury’s decision will be announced at the closing ceremony of the 39th SEME Congress to be held in Malaga from 13^th to 15^th February 2025. Subsequently, the award-winning piece(s) will be published on SEME’s website and in SEME’s official journal. Should the conduct of the Award require contestants to provide their personal information, such data will be stored in files located in the SEME office at Ronda General Mitre, 210, 08006 Barcelona. Candidates will be duly informed of this and will be required to acknowledge that SEME has informed them about their right to access, modify or cancel their data, or oppose the processing thereof, as stipulated by the Law. For that purpose, they must send a letter to the address stated above. By accepting the Award terms and conditions, candidates tacitly give their express consent to their personal data being processes by SEME in the furtherance of its purposes, authorizing it to use such data for sending mailshots, information, notifications, etc.
• SEME reserves the right to keep at least one copy of the award-winning piece(s) on such files as it deems appropriate.
• Non-award-winning pieces may be claimed within one month from the announcement of the winner(s). Uncollected pieces will be destroyed once that period has expired.
• SEME declines any responsibility for the loss, theft, destruction by fire or force majeure of the pieces submitted, as well as for any damage they may sustain while in its custody.
• Participation in this Award entails full acceptance of the terms and conditions above.