After successful completion of the course, students are able to: 

• Write structured scientific texts.

• Find relevant literature on a specific topic.

• Identify and distinguish between different types of scientific communication (conferences, journals, etc.).

• Summarize scientific findings in a short presentation (5 or 10 minutes) and apply presentation techniques learned during the course.

This course is designed to enhance student's ability to develop and organize ideas, as well as to effectively prepare documents and presentations. The focus is on scientific communication, encompassing the presentation of scientific findings and hypotheses in primary literature, reviews, popular publications, and conference presentations.

The primary goal of the course is to improve student's communication skills and foster an understanding of scientific communication. The specific objectives include:

• Enhancing communication skills
• Emphasizing scientific communication in both written and oral forms
• Understanding how scientific communication is conducted in workshops, conferences, and journals

Additional goals involve training graduate and PhD students to:

• Access information on various topics, such as research results and conference details, from paper-based publications and online sources
• Write and defend bachelor's, master's, or PhD theses
• Write informative abstracts, extended abstracts, and articles for submission to international conferences and publications, addressing both language and content requirements
• Make effective presentations in a scientific context

Writing exercises (dealing with content as well as language) will include the students  abstracts, extended abstracts, and papers. Presentation exercises include a 5 minutes and 10 minutes talk about a chosen topic. Presentations will be video-recorded and made available to students for self-assessment.

ECTS Breakdown: 3 ECTS = 75h

14h    Seminar
10h    Literature research and selection of papers
2h      Writing of Informative Abstract
17h    Writing of Extended Abstract
8h      Preparation of 1st presentation
17h    Writing of final seminar paper
7h      Preparation of 2nd presentation
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75h

Written exercises (Abstract, Extended Abstract and Paper) will be evaluated and corrected by the lecturers with grades. The presentations will also be graded and discussed with oral feedback. For a detailed schedule of the course, refer to the homepage of the course.

This seminar aims to prepare students for presenting their scientific work in their bachelor's, master's, or PhD thesis, as well as during defense or scientific conferences and workshops. Therefore, it requires a deeper understanding of the area of study.