Edgar Stene Prize 2018

Are you living with a rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease (RMD) and want to tell your story?

The Edgar Stene Prize gives you the opportunity to write about your personal experience, and to be part of a national and international initiative. Organised by EULAR and the standing committee of PARE, the theme of this year's Edgar Stene Prize is ‘My personal champion – supporting my everyday life with a rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease (RMD)’.

We invite people with RMDs to write about their personal experiences. We all want to live life to the fullest and independently. If you have an RMD this can be sometimes challenging though. We would like to hear from you about the personal champion in your life is and why they fill that role. Your personal champion can be a family member, spouse, a friend or also your doctor or someone else of your health care team. It might also be your dog, horse or cat, which gives you comfort and support. We want to celebrate all those who are around us every day and thank them for the unconditional love and support which often goes unnoticed.

The competition is open to people 18 years and over who are living with one or more rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs).

 

In 2017, Stefanie Hulst from The Netherlands won the Edgar Stene Prize, for her winning entry titled ‘Diagnosis from the perspective of a child’. You can read the 2017 entries here.

 

How to enter

Competitors should be invited to submit an essay not exceeding 2 pages (A4) to Arthritis Ireland by 31 December 2017. Essays should be emailed to communications@arthritisireland.ie.

An Arthritis Ireland jury will select and submit the best entry from Ireland, which will then go forward to the European competition. A EULAR Jury will select the 2018 Stene Prize winner to be announced by 15 March 2018. The jury’s decision is incontestable.

Prizes 

The Stene Prize winner will be invited to attend the opening plenary session of the EULAR congress in Amsterdam and will receive a prize of €1,000. EULAR provides the winner with travel to Amsterdam and hotel accommodation for up to four nights, as well as with an invitation to the EULAR congress dinner. The second ranking essay will receive a prize of €700 and the third ranking essay with €300.

Rules

Download: Edgar Stene Prize rules