The Future Ocular Research Creativity Event (FORCE) is an annual competition in the field of contact lenses, pitching the very best students from colleges and universities all over Europe and beyond, against each other to become the CooperVision FORCE Student of the Year.
The competition aims to inspire students to strive for excellence in their studies and to encourage them to develop their professional knowledge base and contacts to benefit their future careers.
Southampton, United Kingdom, May 2018 — Global contact lens manufacturer CooperVision has awarded the title FORCE Student of the Year 2018 to Laura Valencia and Pablo Arlanzón, students from the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. The sixth FORCE (Future Ocular Research Creativity Event) final took place at CooperVision’s Centre of Innovation in Budapest, Hungary on 12…
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The winner takes it all!
- European final package including travel and accommodation
- Complimentary trip to an international clinical conference, including travel and accommodation for the European final FORCE winner
- The title of CooperVision FORCE Student of the Year
- Access to valuable contacts within the industry
- Opportunity to develop a professional knowledge base to benefit your future career.
The rules
You can take part alone or together with a partner. In other words, you are free to do the work yourself or choose a colleague as your partner. The theme of the project must be in the field of contact lenses. Each university then selects the team that will represent it at the FORCE National Final.
It is envisaged that the majority of students will enter FORCE in this category. Careful thought and planning should be given to the trial, as it is difficult to change once committed. Read more about the criteria that will be used to judge the clinical trial.
The option to review a clinical paper for those participants that do not have direct access to patients in order actively to conduct a clinical trial is available. The student will have to justify the reason he/she has opted for the review paper route. A 3,000-word document will be expected to be submitted.
There is an opportunity for those students working in a hospital background to submit a case report. The case report should relate to a patient being treated by the student or his/her supervisor. The judging criteria are similar to those in the other two categories.
Contact
Contact your country’s CooperVision contact for further details and register your interest.
- Petra Zapsky Austria, Germany, Switzerland
- Mark Ayodeji Netherlands, Belgium
- Tomas Dobrensky Czech Republic, Slovakia
- Alexandre Mesle France
- Gabriella Erdelyi Hungary
- Carlo Pasotti Italy
- Lovisa Pettersson Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark
- Wojciech Kida Poland
- Sonia Devesa Spain, Portugal
- Mark Draper UK & Ireland
- Karl Aberdeen Rest of Europe, Middle East & Africa