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Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 07:15

Explain science in a few minutes

Explain science in a few minutes Explain science in a few minutes

The Rey Juan Carlos University organizes the V Edition of the contest 'Thesis in 3 minutes'. In this interuniversity competition, doctoral students must explain their research in a non-extendable time of 180 seconds.

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

For science to have an impact and for society to make it its own, it is essential to make it accessible, that is, to disseminate it. With this objective, the 'Thesis in 3 Minutes' contest was born at the Australian University of Queensland in 2008.

In this competition, whose fifth edition in Spain is organized by the URJC, researchers who are doing a doctoral program must explain their research in just three minutes.

The test is divided into two phases, one preliminary and one final. In the previous one, researchers from the five areas of knowledge: Social and Legal Sciences, Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering and Architecture and Arts and Humanities, will compete within each of the participating universities. In this edition they are the Rey Juan Carlos University, Complutense, Autonomous and Alcalá. Registration is open through this link until next October 8. Doctoral students who are already at least in their second year at the International Doctoral School can participate.

Each one of the 'local' winners of that previous phase later goes on to a final phase in which the best participants from the four universities by area of ​​knowledge will face each other.

An entire investigation, in 180 seconds

As explained by Pilar Abad, director of the EID, the department that organizes this V Edition of 'Thesis in 3 minutes' together with the Campus of International Excellence-Intelligent Energy, "each participant has that time in minutes to present their research: objectives, impact , problems to solve and everything you consider. Of course, if it exceeds 180 seconds, it is disqualified. The exhibitions are all face-to-face and the students only have a fixed image as support material, in addition to their informative capacity”.

The winners of each of the categories (areas of knowledge) will receive, in addition to the recognition of the university community, a prize of 500 euros. In addition, each of the finalists will receive a prize of 100 euros for the mere fact of having reached the final phase.

The preliminary phase will take place at the URJC on October 19, while the final phase is scheduled to be held during the second half of November in the Assembly Hall of the Rectorate Building, on the Móstoles campus. Public assistance is planned, always taking into account health recommendations.