Regulations and Call for Fellow Nominations

Nomination guidelines:

A nomination may be submitted by any member of the EUROMECH Society, hereafter called the nominator. Eligible candidates should be members of EUROMECH and have undertaken a significant proportion of their scientific career in Europe. Self-nominations cannot be accepted.

The nomination follows a two-step procedure:

1. in the first step, the nominator sends electronically a one-page letter (no specific template but mandatory limit) to the chairperson of the relevant Fellowship committee, specifying the name and affiliation of the nominee, the names and affiliations of three potential co-nominators from three different countries and institutions and not from the nominator’s institution, followed by a motivation text in which she/he explains why and for which achievements the nominee deserves in her/his view to become a EUROMECH Fellow.
2. the committee examines all nomination letters received by the deadline and establishes a short list gathering the strongest nominations. Nominators whose nominee is retained on this list are contacted by the committee chair and are invited to submit a formal nomination package. This package should include the following items:

• a presentation letter signed by the nominator and co-signed by the three co-nominators, summarizing the contributions and achievements of the nominee in support of his/her nomination as Fellow (the form can be downloaded at https://euromech.org/fellows)
• a curriculum vitae of the nominee;
• a selection of the nominee's most significant publications (20 publications maximum);
• a suggested citation to appear on the Fellowship certificate (30 words maximum);
• a supporting paragraph enlarging on the citation, indicating the originality and significance of the contributions cited (limit 250 words).

All documents should be written (or translated) in English. 

Nomination Process:

The Fellows are selected the year before the respective EFDC and ESMC. Nominations need to be sent to the Chair of the Fellowship Committee with a copy to the President and to the Secretary General of EUROMECH before 15 October of year N-1, if N is the year of the EFDC or ESMC. Nominations remain active for two selection campaigns. Nominations are reviewed before the end of year N-1 by the relevant EUROMECH Prize Committee and recipients are selected from the nominations. The final decision is made by the EUROMECH Council.

Ethics:

Members of the EUROMECH Council and of the Prize committees are not eligible for EUROMECH awards and cannot act as nominators. The nominators or support letter writers should disclose the nature of their professional relationship with the nominee.

Fellow Committees