Radiation Protection Dosimetry (2015), Vol. 164, No. 1–2, p. 1 Advance Access publication 19 February 2015
doi:10.1093/rpd/ncv005
Editorial FOURTH EUROPEAN IRPA CONGRESS (IRPAeurope2014)
the members of the core team of the organisers of the Congress. Originally, the plan was to limit the papers to four printed pages each. Due to the fact that not all invited papers could be included, this size limit was finally not applied. This issue contains two special papers: a general overview and summary of the various presentations with emphasis on the plenary sessions is given in ‘Radiation protection culture: A global challenge’ and under the title ‘Abstracts of the presentations for the Young Scientists and Professionals Award’ the abstracts of the 12 presentations in this contest are given. All the other papers are thematic contributions, but according to the topic of the Congress some papers summarise and review well-known issues, while the others present new scientific results. The Guest Editors Rolf Michel, Klaus Henrichs, Franc¸ois Bochud, Christophe Murith and Christian Wernli would like to thank all authors of the published papers and especially all the involved persons at RPD for the excellent and fruitful cooperation in the production of this special issue. Special thanks go to the colleagues in the various teams who made the IRPAeurope2014 Congress possible. Hopefully, the reader of this special issue can here find some interesting information on the key presentations at the Congress. Christian Wernli Executive Editor [email protected]
# The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected]
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In 2009 the delegates of the European associate societies of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) nominated the German-Swiss Fachverband fu¨r Strahlenschutz (FS) to organise the fourth European regional IRPA Congress in 2014. The board of the FS decided to invite the Association romande de radioprotection (ARRAD), the French speaking FS colleagues in Switzerland, to join the organising team, and Geneva was chosen as host city of the Congress. Owing to the generous support by the Swiss federal government the Centre International de Confe´rences Gene`ve (CICG) was available for the Congress. In agreement with the IRPA Executive Council the date of the Congress was fixed for 23–27 June 2014. IRPA Congresses have a tradition to publish abstracts only. The organisers of the 2014 Congress proposed to publish a limited selection of papers in a peer reviewed journal. Fortunately, Oxford Press agreed to publish such a selection in a special issue of the journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry (RPD). The international scientific programme committee critically reviewed the over 500 submitted abstracts resulting in a ranking of the abstracts. The authors of the 60 top-ranked abstracts were invited to submit by the end of the Congress a full paper, according to the special rules of Oxford Press. Not all contributions could be accepted because of earlier or ongoing publication elsewhere and some authors were not in the position to complete a full paper for peer review on time. Finally, 37 papers were submitted. The review process was then according to the system of Oxford Press for the journal RPD. The Guest Editors were
doi:10.1093/rpd/ncv005
Editorial FOURTH EUROPEAN IRPA CONGRESS (IRPAeurope2014)
the members of the core team of the organisers of the Congress. Originally, the plan was to limit the papers to four printed pages each. Due to the fact that not all invited papers could be included, this size limit was finally not applied. This issue contains two special papers: a general overview and summary of the various presentations with emphasis on the plenary sessions is given in ‘Radiation protection culture: A global challenge’ and under the title ‘Abstracts of the presentations for the Young Scientists and Professionals Award’ the abstracts of the 12 presentations in this contest are given. All the other papers are thematic contributions, but according to the topic of the Congress some papers summarise and review well-known issues, while the others present new scientific results. The Guest Editors Rolf Michel, Klaus Henrichs, Franc¸ois Bochud, Christophe Murith and Christian Wernli would like to thank all authors of the published papers and especially all the involved persons at RPD for the excellent and fruitful cooperation in the production of this special issue. Special thanks go to the colleagues in the various teams who made the IRPAeurope2014 Congress possible. Hopefully, the reader of this special issue can here find some interesting information on the key presentations at the Congress. Christian Wernli Executive Editor [email protected]
# The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected]
Downloaded from http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/ at Main Library of Gazi University on February 15, 2016
In 2009 the delegates of the European associate societies of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) nominated the German-Swiss Fachverband fu¨r Strahlenschutz (FS) to organise the fourth European regional IRPA Congress in 2014. The board of the FS decided to invite the Association romande de radioprotection (ARRAD), the French speaking FS colleagues in Switzerland, to join the organising team, and Geneva was chosen as host city of the Congress. Owing to the generous support by the Swiss federal government the Centre International de Confe´rences Gene`ve (CICG) was available for the Congress. In agreement with the IRPA Executive Council the date of the Congress was fixed for 23–27 June 2014. IRPA Congresses have a tradition to publish abstracts only. The organisers of the 2014 Congress proposed to publish a limited selection of papers in a peer reviewed journal. Fortunately, Oxford Press agreed to publish such a selection in a special issue of the journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry (RPD). The international scientific programme committee critically reviewed the over 500 submitted abstracts resulting in a ranking of the abstracts. The authors of the 60 top-ranked abstracts were invited to submit by the end of the Congress a full paper, according to the special rules of Oxford Press. Not all contributions could be accepted because of earlier or ongoing publication elsewhere and some authors were not in the position to complete a full paper for peer review on time. Finally, 37 papers were submitted. The review process was then according to the system of Oxford Press for the journal RPD. The Guest Editors were
