EULAR welcomes project applications from rheumatologists or HPR across Europe, designed for developing EULAR recommendations, EULAR Criteria, EULAR Points to Consider or similar projects.
 
Convenors are asked to submit a full proposal including an abstract (a short description without the convenor’s and methodologist’s name) and a lay summary. 

Please carefully read EULAR's Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Task Forces to familiarise yourself with the application criteria, evaluation processes and conduct of EULAR Task Forces.

​EULAR TF SOPs

** IMPORTANT UPDATE: **

• 3.3.2 The systematic literature review (SLR)
  
  Task forces may use artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted screening for the title and abstract screening stage of the SLR. To date, ASReview and other similar tools have been validated (references: EULAR 2026 abstract and DOI: 10.1016/j.ard.2026.05.006). Alternative active-learning tools or models may also be used, provided that they reliably identify at least 95% of relevant articles (≥95% recall). The EULAR SLR datasets available in the public repository (OSF - Open Science Framework) may be used for this test. Researchers are invited to liaise with the QoC Committee to assess the feasibility of proposed new tools. The tool and model used must be clearly reported in the SLR report (modification of August 2026).
  
  
•  The convenor should submit the full proposal, a lay version, and a short abstract via the link to the online platform published on this webpage staring from January 2026 (modification of December 2025).
  SOPs paragraph 2.2 Project evaluation – Step #1.
  
  
• SOPs paragraph   3.3.9 Prioritisation of recommendations and implementability (modification of December 2025).
  
  
• SOPs paragraph  3.3.11 Table of quality indicators (modification of December 2025).
  
  
• The budget for the Task Forces meetings has been updated to 30.000 € and this will apply to projects submitted from 1 November 2025 (SOPs modification of June 2025).
  
  
• Relevant changes related to SOPs paragraph 4 (PUBLISH).
  (modification as of January 2025 further to the launch of EULAR's new open-access journal EULAR Rheumatology Open (ERO) (official press release) see in detail).  
  
  - 4.2.2 Main manuscript and SLR
  - 4.2.3 Additional publications

Recommendations / Points to consider (Task Forces) project applications 

Annual projects submission deadlines: 

• 01 November (for the March Council meeting)  
• 01 April (for the September Council meeting)

Applications process is currently open. 

Please submit your full proposal, including an abstract (a short description without the convenor’s and methodologist’s name) and a lay summary, via our online platform by 1 November. Click here: →  Apply here for Task Force projects

All templates to be submitted in the online platform can be downloaded here below.

To ensure equal treatment of all candidates and maintain transparency in our procedures, we will only accept submissions via the online process.