5th European Regional IRPA Congress Evaluation Report Hielke Freerk Boersma (Congress President) 1 Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 5 History ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Establishing the congress organisation ................................................................................................... 5 Choice of the venue and congress theme ............................................................................................... 6 Key aspects of the Program ..................................................................................................................... 7 Fixing the figures and deadlines .............................................................................................................. 8 Participants .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Acquisition and expectations .............................................................................................................. 8 Actual registrations ............................................................................................................................. 9 Scientific Contributions ......................................................................................................................... 10 Keynotes ............................................................................................................................................ 10 Submitted Contributions ................................................................................................................... 11 Parallel Sessions ................................................................................................................................ 11 Poster Sessions .................................................................................................................................. 11 Refresher courses .............................................................................................................................. 12 Scientific side events ......................................................................................................................... 13 EUTERP – workshop....................................................................................................................... 13 European NORM Association and IAEA Environet NORM project ................................................ 13 Young Professional Award Sessions .............................................................................................. 13 IRPA Workshop on Public Understanding of Radiation Risk ......................................................... 14 NRG Lunch Seminar ....................................................................................................................... 14 Scientific summary ............................................................................................................................ 14 Non Scientific Program .......................................................................................................................... 15 Opening and Closing Ceremony ........................................................................................................ 15 Technical Visits .................................................................................................................................. 15 IRPA Associate Societies Forum ........................................................................................................ 16 School Event ...................................................................................................................................... 16 Exhibition ........................................................................................................................................... 17 Social Program ................................................................................................................................... 17 Art Exhibition ..................................................................................................................................... 18 Other events ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Evaluation: Results from the surveys .................................................................................................... 18 Keynotes ............................................................................................................................................ 19 2 Refreshers .......................................................................................................................................... 20 General Aspects ................................................................................................................................. 21 Summary of survey ............................................................................................................................ 21 Financial accountability ......................................................................................................................... 22 Recommendations and conclusions ...................................................................................................... 23 Acknowledgement ......................................................................................................................... 24 Appendix A – Committee Members ...................................................................................................... 25 Steering committee ........................................................................................................................... 25 Scientific Program Committee (core) ................................................................................................ 25 Scientific Program Committee (corresponding members) ............................................................... 25 Local Organizing Committee ............................................................................................................. 26 Appendix B – Origin of Registered Participants .................................................................................... 27 Appendix C – Subjects of the parallel and poster sessions ................................................................... 28 Areas and sub-specialties .................................................................................................................. 28 Parallel sessions ................................................................................................................................. 28 Poster sessions .................................................................................................................................. 29 Appendix D – Refresher courses ........................................................................................................... 30 Appendix E – IRPA2018: Summary of scientific sessions ...................................................................... 32 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 32 Encouraging sustainability by having refresher courses ................................................................... 32 Encouraging sustainability by giving free space to the Young Generation ....................................... 33 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................... 33 Summary of scientific sessions .......................................................................................................... 33 Fundamental issues ....................................................................................................................... 33 Medical .......................................................................................................................................... 34 Decommissioning .......................................................................................................................... 34 Non-Ionising Radiation .................................................................................................................. 34 NORM ............................................................................................................................................ 35 Emergency preparedness .............................................................................................................. 35 Risk perception and communication ............................................................................................. 35 Education and training .................................................................................................................. 36 Occupational.................................................................................................................................. 36 Radon ............................................................................................................................................. 36 Security 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