This network aims to:
- Connect members wishing to conduct international studies.
- Offer assistance to members seeking active involvement from senior experts.
- Ensure quality research standards.
Submit your research
Project types
Collaboration
- Projects originating from other Associations (not yet initiated) that are exploring potential collaboration opportunities.
- Dissemination within the ACVC network may be considered; however, this excludes surveys, as only official ACVC-endorsed projects can be circulated through ACVC communication channels.
Download the proposal form (in Word) for collaboration
Official project
- Projects led by investigators who are ACVC Silver Members and seek a significant involvement of the ACVC in their initiative.
- Benefits: The project can be disseminated through the ACVC network; invitations to other Societies are possible, with the ACVC acting as lead or co-lead.
- A formal agreement between the involved Societies is required to ensure proper coordination for study initiation.
ACVC Members are eligible to submit their proposals.
Download the proposal form (in Word) for an official project
If you would like to submit a proposal, just download the appropriate proposal form and submit it via your My ESC account with
- The CRF and all relevant documents must be uploaded at the time of submission in the dedicated webpage
- Upon completion of the project, a final report (e.g., resulting publication) must be submitted to escacute@escardio.org
The submission process
The first feedback (reject/review/approved) will be returned within two weeks; comments will eventually be provided.
Legal
By submitting your work to the ESC:
- You consent to have authors’ names, affiliation and biographical material used in connection with the publication of your work.
- Author(s) represents and warrants to the ESC that he/she/they is/are sole author(s) of the work, that all authors have participated in and agree with the content and conclusions of the work, and that the work is original and does not infringe upon any copyright, proprietary, or personal right of any third party.
- The submitter hereby affirms that the work submitted is original, except for extracts from copyrighted works fully authorised by the copyright holders and that all statements declared as facts are based on thorough examination and investigation for accurateness.
- The submitted research project should not have been submitted or proposed in any other platform nor presented at any previous international congress.
- The content belongs to the author(s). However, if the research proposal is accepted the submitter agrees, on behalf of all co-authors, to transfer and assign to the ESC free of charge, on a non-exclusive basis, for twenty years from the present submission the rights to edit, publish, reproduce, reformat, distribute in whole or in part the abstract and prepare all type of derivative works such as educational products, using all communication tools and means, now known or hereinafter developed, including any and all digital means and any and all supports or forms of media, now known or hereinafter developed, in particular all paper, analog, digital, numerical and electronic media, including Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites and social media. This includes use in indexes or search databases in print, electronic, or other media.
- The submitter signs for all co-authors. He/she accepts responsibility for the present rules for submission and presentation on behalf of all co-authors.
In accordance with chapter three of the European Regulation 2016/679 with regards to data protection, you have the right to request from the ESC, access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing concerning your data or to object to the processing as well as the right to data portability.
For such, please contact dataprivacy@escardio.org (be aware that proof of identity will be requested during the process via a secured web link).
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, and for information, the ESC has appointed a Data Protection Officer that you can reach at dpo@escardio.org
