Duties to All SIS/Course organizers:

• The SIS/Course organizer must be a paid 2023 EVER member and register in the congress. Membership is compulsory to be able to submit a summary (unless invited by the President to organize a conjoint 2023 EVER-Society Special Interest Symposium).
• The SIS/Course organizer must ask the approval of the Section Chair to organize the SIS/Course and must discuss the SIS/Course outline with the Section Chair and Programme Secretary and work closely with them.
• OIC must receive the full name and e-mail of those participating speakers approved by a Section Chair and SIS/Course organizer in advance, in order to allow them to access to the dedicated fee on the on-line portal.
• SIS/Course organizers must provide all the information requested in the online submission form.
• OIC will coordinate and collect all necessary information from all speakers involved in each SIS/Course through the on-line portal.
• SIS/ Course organizers must make all potential speakers aware of the rules below for SIS/ Course Speakers.

SIS/Course speakers:
SIS/ Course speakers that are either:
Non-ophthalmologists
OR
First time attendees

will be granted a full waiver of the annual EVER Membership fee.

• The Section Chair is responsible for approving the EVER-annual membership fee waiver for each SIS speaker in their Section according to the above rules.
• Subsequently, those SIS / Course speakers who fall into this category may either register for the whole meeting at the early bird rate for the full 3 days 300€, OR register at the special one-day rate 100€.
• All other SIS/ Course speakers who do not fall into any of the above two categories, are required to pay EVER membership and to register for the annual meeting (full 3 days or one day)
• SIS/Course speakers must submit a summary of their presentation via the online submitting procedure between 20 February and 27 March, 2023.
• SIS/Course speakers must organize their own travel and accommodation.
• If a SIS/Course speaker has a commercial interest in either a product or equipment being promoted at a SIS/Course, then it should be declared in the summary submission portal and in the presentation itself.

Sponsorship:
Each SIS/Course organizer is warmly encouraged to obtain sponsorship from a commercial company. If a SIS/Course is evaluated to be of commercial interest by the Section Chair, sponsorship by a Company will be mandatory.

If the SIS/Course is sponsored, the requested sponsorship will cover the following:
3.500 Euro as contribution to the running expenses of the SIS/Course and to support the organizations commitment to sponsor early career scientists and clinicians to participate in all aspects of the EVER meeting.
This amount will include:

• meeting room required for the SIS
• n. 2 Free Registrations to EVER Congress 2023
• n. 2 Accommodation in a 4-star hotel for 1 night
  name and logo of the SIS/Course sponsor will be printed in the pocket programme and mentioned on Congress website and App.

The sponsoring company is requested to pay the 3.500 EUR contribution directly to EVER Congress.

All SIS/Course organizers and SIS/Course speakers will get a confirmation by 28 April 2023.