The GPR 2014 Early-Stage Researcher Awards aim to recognise, motivate and acknowledge four excellent and promising young scientists (two with an oral presentation and two with a poster presentation), whose research meet high international standards and represent a significant potential for the future of Ground Penetrating Radar technology, methodology and applications.

The most outstanding oral and poster presentations by PhD students will be awarded with a prize of 250 EUR. Furthermore, the most outstanding oral and poster presentations by PhD students from COST Countries will receive:

- a COST 500,00 EUR Training School Grant*, to attend the Training School on “Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar,” organised by Action TU1208, to be held in Pisa, Italy, on September 22-25, 2014; and

- a COST Invitation** to the Third General Meeting of Action TU1208, to be held in London, on March 4-6, 2015, to present the further developments of their awarded research works.

An Early-Stage Researcher has to be an Author/co-Author of the paper, and he/she has to present the paper personally, in order to be eligible for the Award. He/she has to be a PhD Student at the time of paper submission.

The names of the awarded young scientists will be officially communicated during the Gala Dinner on Wednesday, July 2, 2014.

Coordinator of the Award Committee

- Lara Pajewski, Roma Tre University, Italy

Award Committee

- Frédéric André, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

- Antonis Giannopoulos, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- Sébastien Lambot, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

- Lara Pajewski, Roma Tre University, Italy

- Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

- Chi-Chih Chen, Ohio State University, USA

- Raffaele Persico, CNR - National Research Council, Italy

- David Redman, Sensors and Software, Canada

* The COST Training School Grant will be corresponded by Action TU1208 following the rules reported in Section 7 of the COST Vademecum, after the school attendance.

** Travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed by Action TU1208 after the meeting, following the rules reported in the Section 4 of the COST Vademecum.