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Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges

March 7, 2018
Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges
PICO presentations at the 2017 General Assembly. (Credit: EGU)

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research at the conference 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), wer ...[Read More]

What’s new for the 2018 General Assembly?

November 16, 2017
What’s new for the 2018 General Assembly?
The extra space at the front of the conference center is set to return in 2018. It will provide additional space for posters and PICOs, as well as a dedicated registration space. Credit:EGU/Kai Boggild

Along with our conference organisers, Copernicus, we aim to improve the experience of General Assembly attendees year on year. Following feedback from participants in 2017, we’ll introduce some changes we hope will make the 2018 edition of our meeting even better! This post highlights a few of the changes that returning participants will notice at next year’s conference. An ever-growing numb ...[Read More]

Try something different at EGU 2018– choose a PICO session!

November 3, 2017
Try something different at EGU 2018– choose a PICO session!
Lena Noack presenting her research with a PICO presentation at the EGU General Assembly.

Some of the sessions scheduled for the upcoming EGU General Assembly are PICO only sessions. This means that, rather than being oral or poster format, they involve Presenting Interactive COntent (PICO). The aim of these presentations is to highlight the essence of a particular research area – just enough to get the audience excited about a topic without overloading them with information. What’s gr ...[Read More]

Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges

March 22, 2017
Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges
Poster presentations in full swing at the EGU's 2016 General Assembly. (Credit: Kai Boggild/EGU)

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research at the conference 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), wer ...[Read More]