ESTI Research Support Programme 2025

General Information

The ESTI is seeking to promote research in thoracic imaging and will award up to three researchers financial support to develop projects.

Application

ESTI members can apply for research support from Monday, February 24 until Tuesday, September 30.

The application should include

A) A brief curriculum vitae, with relevant previous clinical work and research experience included.
B) An outline of the project including the title of the project, keywords, background, rationale, objectives, methods, and impact of results /clinical relevance (max. two A4 pages).
C) Your membership certificate of the current year (2025).

In order for the application to be judged purely on its clinical and scientific merit, the project outline and title must not enable the applicants’ institution or co-investigators to be identified and should not include the names or any reference to previously published papers by the applicant or applicant’s group. Failure to comply will result in exclusion from consideration for the grant.

All three files should be sent as PDF documents to the ESTI Office by Tuesday, September 30, 2025.
The winner will be announced on occasion of the ESTI Winter Course 2025. Respective notification emails will be sent within December 2025.

Research Support Programme Outline

The ESTI will devolve the sum of up to Euro 15.000 to this initiative divided into a maximum of three grants of Euro 5.000 each. The sum will be awarded directly to the ESTI member or may be (on request) transferred to his/her department/university.

Funds will be transferred to recipients with the following time scales:
– 40% when the research begins, as communicated by grant recipient;
– 30% after six months activity, upon presentation of interim results;
– 30% when the research has been accepted for publication in a peer-review journal.

The paper arising from the research should initially be submitted to European Radiology, European Radiology Experimental, Insights into Imaging or the Journal of Thoracic Imaging. Only if rejected by two of these four journals may the paper(s) be submitted to other international peer-review journals published in the English language.

Each paper that will be published using data from the funded research must include the following acknowledgement: “This research was partially/totally funded by the Research Support Programme awarded by the European Society of Thoracic Imaging”.

The (status quo) of the project must also be presented at the ESTI meeting within 12 months of being awarded. The congress registration fee for the presenter will then be waved for this meeting.

The official awarding will be during the awarding ceremony of the ESTI 2026 Salzburg congress.

Further inquiries should be addressed to the ESTI Office.