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Papers may be presented as an oral contribution or a poster. No participant may submit more than one first authored paper. The first author is assumed to present the paper unless otherwise stated. No participant may present more than once during the conference. No individual should appear in the programme more than three times.

Proposals, which must be submitted by 1st January 2006, should include the following:

a) Name, address (including e-mail address) and institutional affiliation.
b) Type of presentation (oral or poster)
c) Abstract of 400 words maximum
d) Two-page synopsis of 1000 words maximum including: biological topic, theoretical background or rationale, key objectives, research design and methodology, findings.

Proposals should be sent to the Secretary of the Academic Committee of ERIDOB 2004, Dr Marcus Hammann, as an e-mail attachment: hrefhammann@ipn.uni-kiel.de Proposals received after 1st January 2006 will not be considered.

Proposals will be reviewed under the following criteria:

• Research: Is the proposal concerned with research in biological education?
• Subject / problem: What is the research problem or question? What is the rationale for the study? What is the theoretical framework?
• Design and methodology: What is the design of the study? Are the research methods clearly described and appropriate?
• Data analysis and findings: Are the data clearly presented? Is there consistency between data and findings?
• General interest: Is the contribution of interest to European researchers in the field?

The standards, in terms of quality, will be the same for oral and poster presentations. The following criteria will be applied:
For oral presentations

• Work to be presented should be reaching completion or be complete and well thought through.
• Data should be available.
• Content should be of high interest and/or relevance.
• Specific content should not have been presented elsewhere.

• Work may be under development.
• Findings may be tentative or not yet available.
• Content may be of less interest and/or relevance.
• Similar work may have been presented elsewhere.