Student Research Projects

Rules for Student Research Projects for the Academic Year 2020-2021

1. Each department may offer up to 10 posts for student researchers. No more than two General Medicine students may work on the same project. Several Dentistry students may work on the same project. However, topics from the previous academic year which were not possible to be finished due to the epidemiological situation and which a student wants to work on further and present them at the conference; i.e. students who will continue to work on the topic from the past academic year (2019/2020), will not be counted into the limit of 10 (this fact has to be mentioned explicitly when sending the topics from the department).     
2. Students apply for a particular project by submitting a filled-in application form to the secretary of that particular department no later than July, 14 2020. After a head’s approval and checking the number of students and topics, a secretary will deliver all applications to Ms. Veronika Glogarová (Dean’s office). One student may apply for one project only. (However, topics from the previous academic year which were not possible to be finished due to the epidemiological situation and which a student wants to work on further and present them at the conference are an exception, i.e. a student may have 2 topics – one from 2019/2020 and one from 2020/2021. A student has to state explicitly in the application form that the topic is from the last academic year). For any case, a student has to submit a new application form.
3. Certificates        confirming beginning work on the topic will be sent to students via post within September 2020 (to the address they stated in the application form).
4. Students may change their project or supervisor within the same department by submitting a written application no later than February 28, 2021.
5. The date of the conference is written in the Schedule of the academic year (May 25, 2021). Abstracts must be submitted to Ms Veronika Glogarová (veronika.glogarova@upol.cz) no later than April 10, 2021, posters must be submitted no later than April 30, 2021. Abstracts and posters are to be sent via e-mail and files should be named as follows: surname_title of project. In case any corrections in abstracts are required, the corrected abstracts will be submitted by April 17, 2021. These need to be formatted in accordance with instructions on the student research project website; otherwise, the project will not be accepted for presentation at the conference. Files shall be named Author's surname_Title of presentation_Type (abstract.doc; or .pdf in case of a poster).
6. The presentation is based on an electronic poster and lasts 3 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions and discussion. Dentistry students may be given different requirements on their presentation.
7. The conference jury will select three best student research project presentations in each of the following categories: Basic Science, Clinical, Internal Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry; and a winning project in General Medicine category. Their authors will receive a financial award. The works from the academic year 2019/2020 shall be presented outside the competition.
8. All students who submit the abstract and poster and attend the entire conference will receive CZK 4000 in accordance with the Dean's directive. This sum will be divided among two or more students working on the same project based on their contributions (the decision will be made by their supervisor).
9. Three projects will receive Student Awards based on the poll of students present at the conference.
10. Volunteer conference organizers will receive a financial award.

Prof. RNDr. Hana Kolářová, CSc.                                            Doc. MUDr. Eva Klásková, Ph.D.