Poster presentation guidelines

All posters and presentation must be in English.

Timing

The length of one poster presentation is of maximum 7 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.

Poster layout

As a poster, your paper will be available for audience’s observation not only when you sustain your presentation. Keep in mind that your poster should be able to stand alone and clearly reveal to the reader the main ideas of your research.

• Use the Portrait orientation for your poster rather than Landscape.
• The maximum dimensions are 90cm width and 120cm height.
• The title should be large enough to be seen from approximately 3m. Use a simple font and an appropriate size for the text (28-30 for normal text and bigger for subtitles).
• Use subheadings for your paragraphs and number or indicate through arrows their order to assure that the reader can easily go through it logically
• Use illustrative objects (images, figures, schemes, graphs, charts, tables) to create a better understanding of the text.
• Objects should have a title or brief explanation and legend.
• Create a suitable contrast between the font and the background color.

Scientific content

To assure an effective reading of your poster try not to use exhaustive details that would interfere with its clear appearance. Use means of highlighting the ideas that are most important to be remembered by the audience.

Divide your information into paragraphs (example: Introduction/Background, Materials and methods, Results/Findings, Discussions, Conclusion/Summary, Future prospective, Acknowledgements, Bibliographic references).

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.

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