Student Competition

Masters and PhD students are encouraged to 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. 
• The student must be the first author and must be (or have been) a student during the calendar year of the annual meeting.
• Entries are judged by three independent external reviewers. Selection criteria can be found here
• The abstract submitter will be informed on whether their 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 Student Competition Jury on the quality of their poster and oral presentation.
• A first-place winner for student competition will be awarded a cash prize of 750 € and complementary registration for the next AETE meeting.  
• 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.