The Award may be presented to the best Educational paper at an ASCC Annual Conference. It is an educational award to cover all those papers that do not qualify as a Technical or Advertorial paper.

Eligibility for the award:

• Educate the audience in a general subject that is relevant and important to the cosmetic industry.
• This may be a review paper and may not be based on specific scientific research or for commercial/sales purpose (promoting a product). Possible subjects (for example) could be; Discussion of regulatory guidelines, cosmetic standards or associated principles; Intellectual property, Trends in the industry, etc. A paper that on the outside looks advertorial (eg talks about the development of a raw material or a finished product), if it does not use trade names, can be classified as Educational, in addition to those defined above.
• If it is classified as Technical, then it can’t also be classified as Educational. Normal Advertorial papers are also not classified educational.
• The author shall present the paper.

In order to be eligible for the ASCC Educational Award the presenter shall provide (before the conference) a
written, formal paper, which may be accompanied by Powerpoint presentation, slides, tables, illustrations etc.
A presentation which is solely based on slides or powerpoint presentation does not constitute a paper and is not eligible for this award.

Papers are judged by the following criteria, in order of importance:

• Educational content (5 points maximum)
• Importance and Relevance to the Industry (5 points maximum)
• Presentation (4 points maximum)
• Adherence to the theme of the conference (2 points maximum)
• Use of Visual Aids (2 points maximum)
• References (2 points maximum)

Please note that if no paper reaches the minimum level of 15 points (out of 20) then it is the prerogative of the Awards Committee that no paper is deemed worthy of receiving the award and, hence, that award is not awarded that year.