Dear Researchers of the Department of Clinical Medicine (K1), Department of Clinical Science (K2) and Helse-Vest,

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our pleasure to invite you to present your work at the 15^th Annual Research Presentations arranged by the Research School in Clinical Medicine.

This is an excellent opportunity to share your research and to get a chance to win a cash award worth between 3000 NOK and 10 000 NOK.

Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, it will be held as an online event on 27-29 January 2021.

   Who is eligible to apply:

• PhD candidates and Postdoctoral Researchers / Scientists appointed to K1, K2 Departments, and Helse-Vest.
• Authors of the poster or oral presentations presented at a national or international scientific meeting in 2020.

  Registration and Submission tips:

• Conference registration and document submissions will be received through online form following the link: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=9332011

• All participants are welcome to submit more than one work stemmed from different projects.

• There is no submission limit for poster presentations. However, due to the time restriction, only the first 20 submitted projects will be presented in the oral presentation session.

Required documents for submission:

Poster Presentations:

1. e-Poster presented in a scientific meeting during the year
2. Due to the online format of the event: an additional PowerPoint including information from the e-Poster:
   1. Subsections of e-Poster, i.e. Background, Material and Methods, Results, etc. will be presented in separate slides to increase the readability of the data during the presentation
   2. PowerPoint should not exceed 6 slides per presentation
3. Abstract of the project filled in the submission page following the provided link
4. Brief, up to five sentences summary of the presentation: Written in Norwegian and filled in the submission page following the provided link

Oral Presentations:

• PowerPoint presentation of the project presented as an oral poster in a scientific meeting during the year

• To present the most recent data, authors are welcome to resend the updated version of the presentation to forskningspresentasjoner.forskerskolen@uib.no.

• Deadline for the updated presentation submission is January 20, 2021.

• Abstract of the project filled in the submission page following the provided link

• Brief, up to five sentences summary of the presentation: Written in Norwegian and filled in the submission page following the provided link

 

• The submission deadline is December 1, 2020

    Event Day(s):

Poster presentations will take place on January 27, 2021

• Each poster presenter will give a short online presentation of their poster to a scientific committee.
• Presentation time per poster is around five minutes (three minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for questions from the scientific committee)

Oral presentations will take place on January 28, 2021

• The presentation time is 10 minutes per project followed by five minutes of discussion.
• Oral presentations can be presented in the original, previously presented form. However, given that the audience may include participants from different backgrounds, authors are encouraged to add a general introduction to the topic.

The Award ceremony will take place on January 29, 2021

• All presentations will be evaluated for prizes.

    Prizes:

• Projects presented by PhD candidates will be eligible for awards in the following categories.

The Best Poster Presentation

• • • First place winner:  10 000 NOK
    • Second place winner: 5000 NOK
    • Third place winner: 3000 NOK

The best Oral Presentation

• • • First place winner:  10 000 NOK
    • Second place winner: 5000 NOK
    • Third place winner: 3000 NOK

• Oral and poster presentations presented by Postdoctoral Researchers / Scientists will be eligible for the award in the following category:

• Open Class – 10 000 NOK 

• People’s Choice Award:

• • All participants and projects will be eligible to participate in this category.
  • The nominee will be selected based on the votes from the audience.

If you require any further information, feel free to respond to this email or to contact forskningspresentasjoner.forskerskolen@uib.no.

We hope to see you and your research at the 15th Annual Research Presentations Conference.

Yours Sincerely,

Mona, Nils, and Nigar