Course coordinator: S. Sygelos

The purpose of the course is to prepare the students for scientific presentations (e.g. at conferences) after judging the abstract.

The students are trained in writing a scientific summary for review and then in the structure and presentation of a scientific paper (purpose, methodology, results and discussion). The student is then asked to submit an abstract and then present their experimental thesis. They are evaluated anonymously by all participants and the instructor based on the performance both in the composition of the abstract and in presenting and answering questions from the audience. The possible further continuation of the experimental work at a higher postgraduate level is also being investigated.

Educational Objectives

The postgraduate course “Special Seminars” aims at the following:

• In the development of the ability of the students who present their results to communicate to the audience, with clarity and brevity, the scientific question of their research work, the methodology they follow and the evaluation of their experimental findings.
• To develop the ability of the students in the audience to understand the scientific question and how to approach it, and to comment critically on the presented findings.
• In the interaction and exchange of views between the students and the faculty members of the program in the scientific topics presented and in general the better scientific acquaintance and strengthening of the communication of the members of the program.
• To the contribution of all members of the program to the improvement of the quality of the research carried out within the framework of the postgraduate program.

Any form of plagiarism will result in the rejection of the work; it is a serious academic misconduct and may have disciplinary sanctions that may lead up to the elimination of the postgraduate student from the postgraduate study programme.