PhaNuSpo Retreat 2023
Retreat 1/2023

Vienna Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences: RETREAT 2023

Söchau, Steiermark

 

Dear 2023 PhaNuSpo Retreat Community,

 

First of all, I would like to thank you all for attending our second annual retreat, for presenting a poster or being a jury member. The list of participants is attached.

It was quite a challenge to find a suitable location for such a large group, but we are confident that we have found a nice seminar hotel in the beautiful region of Styria.

  • Date & time: 18-19 September 2023, organised bus transfer about 1:45 one-way
    Exact times to be confirmed: leaving Vienna at 8:30 and leaving Söchau at 15:00

 

Two parallel guided poster sessions are planned for day 1 allowing 6 minutes for each poster presentation. We have 28 poster presentations, and 11 PhD and 11 PI volunteering as Jury. Thank you.

 

@ Presenters

 

We would like to emphasise and support you in designing your poster and presenting your research in such a way that the audience from all PhaNuSpo disciplines can follow and understand your research, be motivated to give feedback, to ask questions and interact with you. Presentations should include your motivation, the research question/hypothesis and methods used, your initial results, and, preferably, implications for society. Further details will be provided by the jury.

 

We would like to emphasise that the retreat is a safe place to test your communication skills in front of a wider audience.

 

Poster design:  Download the A0 poster template for the Doc School corporate design on the PhaNuSpo Intranet. The logo, the headline and the information at the bottom are part of the corporate design and should not be changed. There is however sufficient space in between, this is your design area to illustrate your research project, to add your own drawings, use new graphic tools, etc.

 

We would like to encourage presenters to discuss their posters with each other in advance. You can learn from each other, test whether other people understand the essence of your research and collect and share ideas for intriguing poster presentations.

 

@ Jury members

 

The idea is that the jury will be made up of volunteer PhD students who are not presenting. This group should equally represent the three Pha-Nu-Spo disciplines and will prepare the indicators for evaluation before the retreat. The experienced PI volunteers will help the PhD students to define the criteria and guide them through the evaluation process.

 

Next step: PhD jury members meet (online) and agree whether only the PhD jury will evaluate the posters and the PIs will assist them, or if it should be a mix of PhDs & PIs.
Isolde is a fan of the first one.

 

Well in advance of the retreat, a spokesperson for the jury will communicate the evaluation indicators, including details for the presentations themselves (e.g. time/poster) and whether a poster abstract should be submitted prior to the retreat.


Parallel sessions are planned for the second day.

 

PhD student Abir Omran has proposed a quiz/walk / quiz challenge. Abir (abir.omran@univie.ac.at) is looking for people to join her in developing the quiz. This will be a very exciting and challenging task to create a quiz that gives everyone the same chance of winning. The puzzle solvers are looking forward to your unconventional thinking, imagination, and creativity.

 

 

Please contact Isolde & Julia (vds.phanuspo@univie.ac.at) if you need any administrative support, e.g. organising a room for the jury or presenters to meet face-to-face, or materials for the quiz challenge, and especially if you have any ideas for your own initiative, etc.

 

An update of the programme for our retreat will be distributed as soon as more details are available.

 

Best wishes,

Isolde and Jürgen

 

Söchau, Steiermark
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