Competitions

The AETE encourages Master and PhD students and Early Career Researchers to submit their abstracts for student competition, oral or poster presentations. Below, you can find the requirement for each competition.

• Masters and PhD students may submit abstracts for consideration in the AETE Student Competition.
• The experimental data presented in the abstract must be original and must have been gathered during the student’s degree program. 
• He/she must be the first author and must be (or has been) a student during the calendar year of the annual meeting. 
• Entries are judged by the members of the board on the quality of the abstract, and no more than five will be chosen for further competition. Selection criteria can be found in the AETE website (www.aete.eu).
• The abstract submitter will be informed on whether his/her abstract has been selected as one of the last five finalist for the Student competition by the end of June. 
• These five student finalists shall present their work at the AETE annual meeting in poster and oral (10 minutes + 5 minutes for questions) format and they will be judged by the board members on the quality of their poster and oral presentation.
• A first-place winner for student competition will be awarded a cash prize (750 €) and complementary registration for AETE 2023.  
• Students whose abstracts are not among the five selected for oral presentation have to present their data in the poster session. 

Previous first-place award winners are not eligible to compete

• All abstract submitters are invited to present their results as a Short Oral communication.  
• Entries are judged by the members of the board on the quality of the abstract. 
• The abstract submitter will be informed by the end of June whether their abstract has been selected to be presented as a Short Oral Communication. 
• A date of the session and presentation guidelines will be provided by mid-July.
• At the AETE annual conference, the presenters will be requested to prepare a short oral presentation (10 minutes + 5 minutes for questions).
• A first-place winner for the best oral communication will be awarded a cash prize (250 €) and complementary registration for AETE 2023. 
• Judges will be representative AETE members who have no conflicts of interest with respect to the presenters.  
• Presenters whose abstracts are not among the selected for oral presentation have to present their data in the poster session by attending the conference or sending their posters with a representative who will make the presentation. 

• All abstract submitters are invited to present their results as a Poster presentation. 
• Guidelines for poster preparation and information about the date of the poster session will be uploaded in the AETE website by July. 
• A first-place winner for the best poster presentation will be awarded with a complementary registration for AETE 2023.
• The quality of the poster presentation will be judged by representative AETE members who have no conflicts of interest with respect to the presenters.