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Regulations for invited faculty

Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine (FCVB) 2026 - 17 to 19 April - Leuven, Belgium

Regulations for invited faculty

These regulations apply to invited speakers, discussants and chairpersons for all sessions organised by the Congress Programme Committee, the ESC Councils, the ESC Associations and Working Groups.

Details of support for travel and hotel accommodation, if any, has been sent to you by email with your original faculty invitations. In case of doubts, please contact fcvbscientific@escardio.org - you may also find faculty entitlement details in the table below.
All invited speakers and chairpersons having accepted their role will be automatically registered and will received a registration voucher before the congress.
No honorarium will be paid.
Invited speakers, discussants and chairpersons must reply via ‘My Agreements’ through the ‘My ESC’ online services (the link is provided in the original invitation and reminders) by the deadline announced. Once the deadline is past, the Congress Programme Committee may review the programme and assign replacements for the faculty who have not confirmed participation.
All faculty must declare possible conflict of interest online when accepting the invitation as well as during the session
All sessions will be recorded - presentations will be made available within 24h on ESC365 (provided the speakers have granted copyrights to the ESC via their agreement form)

Type	Hotel	Travel	Registration
Core Committee members	Up to 3 nights at the Faculty Hotel	Up to €500.	Free
Local congress committee	Up to 2 nights at the Faculty Hotel	Not covered	Free
Keynote Speakers	Up to 3 nights at the Faculty Hotel	Europe: up to €500; Non-Europe: max €1000	Free
Speakers	Europe: up to 2 nights at the Faculty Hotel Non-Europe: up to 3 nights at the Faculty Hotel	Not covered	Free
Local Faculty	Up to 2 nights at the Faculty Hotel	Not covered	Free
Faculty with Chairperson role only	Not covered	Not covered	Free

Terms related to declaration of interest / copyrights

Declaration of interest

The existence of potential conflicts of interest does not necessarily indicate a bias. However, it is our ethical obligation to inform participants so that they are made aware of any relationship that might cause unintentional bias.

A potential conflict of interest may arise from various relationships, past or present, such as employment, consultancy, investments and stock ownership, funding for research, family relationship etc. This will allow the audience to take potential conflicts of interest into account when assessing the objectivity of the presentation.

Important:

When accepting the role(s) via the agreement form, Speakers / Chairpersons / Discussants / Presenters have to declare possible conflict(s) of interest. This information is accessible to edit and update as may be required. It is the person's responsibility to ensure the information is up to date in the system - a Declaration of Interest (DOI) slide will be automatically generated, as second slide, by the upload system based on the information entered.

We request the DOI Slide to be displayed and read out loud to give the audience sufficient time to take note of the conflicts disclosed.

Chairpersons/Discussants must declare possible conflict of interest regarding the topics of the presentations orally at the beginning of the session.

Granting the ESC the rights to use the presentation for educational purposes

ESC is a not-for-profit association whose purpose and mission are to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease. As stated in its statutes, ESC takes responsibility for education and training of cardiologists and other professionals involved with prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases of the heart and vessels. In addition, the ESC promotes and disseminates key scientific content and its repurposing into Educational programmes, training and development of standards throughout the world.

By assigning to the ESC the rights to use the Presentation(s)(and materials included in), Faculty and Presenters allow the ESC, directly or any entity or partner authorized by the ESC:

- to depict, record (including by video, photographic images, sound and image recordings, slides captures of the Presentation(s) or otherwise), use, broadcast, reformat, publish (as videos/ audio recording), edit, copy and/or reproduce, distribute, in whole or in part the Presentation(s), and prepare all type of derivative works such as press releases and/or educational products, using any and all communication or telecommunication tools and means, now known or hereinafter developed, including any and all digital means, television, radio and audiovisual communication processes, 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, social media, and televisual media;