Students Competition

Only first authors are admitted for presentation at the BMT conference satisfying the following conditions:

• The paper shall present only current research work which may have been completed not more than 12 months before the deadline for submission.
• It has not yet been evaluated for another competition
• No more than 4 academic/university years have passed after starting MSc degree
• BSc project related papers can also be considered for the competition
• a member of either the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT), the German Society for Biomedical Engineering within VDE e. V. (DGBMT) or the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE).
• Shared first authorship is not possible
• In the absence of supporting documents, the participant will be eliminated.

The assessment procedure for the student competition of the submitted written papers is carried out by reviewers and at the annual conference by experienced jurors of the expert committee “Training and Advanced Education”. The best 10 papers are assessed by the jurors during the running sessions of the BMT conference and the winners determined. The other finalists receive a participation certificate.

Two stage evaluation process:

1 | The assessment of submitted written papers is based on the following criteria:

•    Innovation content
•    Problem solving
•    Comprehensibility
•    Scientific content of the paper
•    Diligence and formal impression of the manuscript

2 | The assessment at the conference is based on the following criteria:

•    Scientific content of the presentation
•    Quality of the presentation
•    Timing
•    Demonstration of competence in the discussion
•    Engagement with audience 

Authors wishing to participate in the student competition must submit the manuscript using the regular submission system and complete the regular conference registration process.

The prize ceremony takes place at the closing event of the conference. Prizes are awarded personally to first authors according to their score in the ranking. The awards will be published after the meeting in the member magazines of three affiliate societies and on their homepages Prize winners are requested to publish an extended version of their contribution in Biomedical Engineering (WdG) .