Beyond the Moon implements a severe selection process based on a well-considered list of seven criteria. Before a family is taken into consideration for a Beyond the Moon vacation, we rigorously and carefully examine every application in detail and we discuss it with the medical team.

• The child must be between 3 and 18 years old.
• The child must suffer from a long-lasting serious illness and/or a progressive disease, a life-affecting disease or a life-limiting illness.
• The physical condition of the child must be good enough to allow him/her to travel and to fully benefit hereof. A medical authorisation from the primary care physician is mandatory.
• It must be the child's primary desire to spend a vacation or a short break together with his/her immediate family (parent(s) and sibling(s)), far away from hospitals and daily treatments.
• Since the diagnosis, the sick child and his/her family haven't had the chance to be often together or to go on vacation all together and/or have not yet as a family benefited from a short break or vacation granted by Beyond the Moon or any other association or charity.
• The parents cannot themselves organise or financially afford the cost of an all-in vacation or short break.
• All the family members, including the sick child, have to be covered by a travel and medical assistance insurance conceded by the national social security or a local and reliable insurance company. The eventual cost will be reimbursed by Beyond the Moon.

First, we collaborate with professors, doctors and other healthcare professionals at various hospitals and hospices that spontaneously send us the families nominations or at the request of Beyond the Moon request. With their medical background and knowledge, they help us nominate families with a seriously sick child who, based on our selection criteria, are eligible for a Beyond the Moon vacation. 
The biological parent, foster parent or guardian of a sick child or a colleague, relative, friend or the employer of a parent with a sick child can also fill in this form "Nominate a sick child".
Nominating a family with a sick child does not guarantee that this request will be effectively and positively accepted.  When it seems that the sick child and the family meet our criteria, Beyond the Moon will first check whether it has sufficient funds available to accept and execute this request.   To avoid disappointments, we kindly ask you not to make any promise to the sick child and his/her family until a full and thorough investigation has taken place. We respect the privacy of the sick children and their families. All medical information is treated confidentially and is neither discussed nor passed on to third parties, unless this is required for the fulfilment of the family vacation and, only provided the child's parent(s), guardian(s) or foster parent(s) have given their consent.