eBRF 2003 encourages presentations on work-in-progress, rather than completed research. At the conference, presentations are commented by session chairmen, and participating colleagues. Presenters will be asked to send their presentation summary to their session chairmen before the presentation.

eBRF 2003 seeks to add value to the researcher's often lonely process via "border-crossing" collegial attention. The most promising works-in-progress will be awarded in the conference. After the conference, authors have until year-end to complete their papers for publication in FeBR 2003.