Oral presentation guidelines

All presentations must be in English.

Timing

The length of one oral presentation is of maximum 8 minutes followed by 2-3 minutes of discussions. Please do not exceed the time limit, for this will be taken into consideration by the jury when evaluating your presentation.

Scientific content

The structure of each presentation is most conveniently conceived by the author; however, we provide here some general suggestions for your presentation:

• Organize your speech into paragraphs: Introduction/Background, Materials and methods, Results/Findings, Discussions, Conclusion/Summary, Future prospective, Acknowledgements, Bibliographic references
• Make sure you indicate the source of information whenever there is literature cited throughout the presentation text
• Give clear and concise information on the methods applied and interpretation of data
• Describe the originality and significance to the field of interest of your scientific approach

Presentation display

Pay attention to the legibility of the text on your slides and to the effective illustration of the information you present:

• Do not overfill your slides with text
• Try to keep the use of words to a minimum: insert brief general ideas rather than full sentences
• Illustrate your points by using images, figures, schemes, charts, tables, graphs
• Chose a simple font and an appropriate size (20-30) for the text

Presenting skills

The speech and the attitude are very important in raising the audience’s interest towards your presentation:

• Introduce yourself before starting to present
• Speak clearly and keep eye contact with your audience
• Maintain a logical course of your presentation by signposting and summarizing paragraphs before passing on to your next point
• Avoid repetitions and too complicated terms