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Crue Spanish Universities, in collaboration with the Network for Scientific Dissemination and Culture (RedDivulga) of the Crue I+D+i sector, launches the third edition of the contest Your doctoral thesis in a Twitter thread: HiloTesis. The objective of this contest is to promote the development of communication skills and scientific dissemination among doctoral students and recent doctors from the universities that are part of Crue. To do this, they must explain their doctoral thesis in a thread of a maximum of 20 tweets, in simple, accessible and attractive language.
The three prizes will have an economic endowment of 1.000 euros each thanks to the financing provided by the Larramendi Foundation, whose collaboration has materialized with the signing of an agreement. Besides, the URJC International Doctoral School will recognize the participation with 8 hours as a transversal training activity.
The contest will take place between 00:00:00 on May 1 and 23:59:00 on May 7, 2023. The research staff in training who participate must, once the thread is published, register and provide the link to your thread through use this form. Threads published and/or correctly registered through the form outside of this period will not be taken into account.
The first tweet in the thread should quote RedDisclose, @filarramendi, @URJC, @doctoradoURJC y @URJCcientifica, and end with a "Do I open #HiloTesis ?". Once the threads of the participants have been received through the form, the organization of the contest will send them to the contact person of each university. Threads that do not meet these conditions will be rejected and only one thread per participant will be considered.
Each participating university will choose, within ten calendar days after the end of the contest, a finalist thread that will be sent to the organization for evaluation by the national jury proposed by RedDivulga. This jury will be made up of at least five members –one of them an expert in communication– and a representative of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation. The ruling will take place between June 1 and 7, 2023 and the authors of the winning threads will be from three different universities.
At the URJC, participation in this contest is coordinated by the International Doctoral School and has the collaboration of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+I).
official presentation ceremony
Julián Garde, president of Crue-I+D+i and rector of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), and Carmen Hernando Larramendi, vice president of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation, accompanied by the creator of this contest, the UCLM professor and member of RedDivulga Alberto Nájera, and by Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, patron of the Foundation.
The president of Crue I+D+i has affirmed that, at present, "what is not told, does not exist" and has stressed that this contest represents an "opportunity" for young doctors to present their research to the society through this social network. He has also highlighted the success of the previous editions of #HiloTesis, which generated more than 50 million impressions on Twitter, thanks to the publication of more than 700 threads. In the last edition of more than 300 people from 47 universities participated.
The rector of the UCLM Julián Garde thanked the representatives of the Larramendi Foundation in this act for their involvement in making this contest even more attractive to young researchers. "Between 70 and 80 percent of the research in Spain is carried out in universities and it is important to show it," he asserted.
For her part, the vice president of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation pointed out that it is an honor for this institution to support this "pioneering and successful initiative" by Crue, aimed at promoting the dissemination of research carried out by doctoral students and young doctors from universities. Spanish. Hernando has stressed that it is "a very pleasant collaboration opportunity", since it is aligned with one of the objectives of the Foundation defined by its founder in 1986.
As he explained, Ignacio Larramendi already bet on new technologies "as an essential tool for the dissemination and democratization of access to culture." Likewise, it has affirmed that, thanks to the creation and maintenance of thematic virtual libraries, such as the Virtual Library of the School of Salamanca, the Virtual Library of the School of Translators of Toledo or the Virtual Library of Polygraphs, the Larramendi Foundation contributes with the dissemination and access to reference works for research and culture.
