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Outstanding Student and PhD-candidate Presentation (OSPP) top tips from previous winners and judges!

April 10, 2024
Outstanding Student and PhD-candidate Presentation (OSPP) top tips from previous winners and judges!

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research with a lot of time and effort going into preparing these presentations. With the aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and more importantly, to encourage Early Career Scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the OSP Awards (as they were formerly known), were born. Since the ...[Read More]

Three peer review myths debunked by the First EGU Peer Review Training

December 29, 2023
Three peer review myths debunked by the First EGU Peer Review Training
Credit: Ole Zeising (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2023, EGU offered Peer Review Training for the first time, over three virtual sessions in September and October 2023, with a little homework in between. With more than 100 applications, from which we chose 57, mostly Early Career Scientists (ECS) to fill the available places, the desire for this kind of training in the EGU community was clear. About 80% of the participants completed the trainin ...[Read More]

My reflections of EGU’s evolving General Assembly over the years

July 7, 2023
My reflections of EGU’s evolving General Assembly over the years
Poster Hall at the EGU 2018 General Assembly at the Austria Center Vienna (Credit: EGU/Keri McNamara)

The wind, funnelled downwards by the surrounding skyscrapers, whipped along Wagramer Strasse, as early morning traffic thundered by.  Past the Orthodox Church and then slightly uphill to the Kaisermühlen VIC underground station, where a stream of one-way traffic was already in full force, everybody proudly displaying their blue lanyards and most carrying the large black poster tubes that are so in ...[Read More]

Outstanding Student and PhD-candidate Presentation (OSPP) top tips from winners and judges!

April 13, 2023
Outstanding Student and PhD-candidate Presentation (OSPP) top tips from winners and judges!

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research with a lot of time and effort going into preparing these presentations. With the aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and more importantly, to encourage Early Career Scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the OSP Awards (as they were formerly known), were born. Since the ...[Read More]