Radboud talks: scientific pitch competition

15 January 2018

Would you like to share your research with the world? Register yourself for the pitch competition Radboud talks and tell your story in just three minutes for a live audience and jury. No worries, we will organize two workshops beforehand so you will be more than ready to go on stage. Preliminaries are planned on 12 March and 14 March 2018 (on campus), and the grand finale will be held in LUX Nijmegen (city centre) on Monday night, 16 april 2018. Application deadline: 31 January 2018.

Young Radboud researchers from every faculty, Radboudumc and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics are welcome to join. The only prerequisites are that you are 40 years old or younger, that you are active as a researcher, PhD, postdoc or assistant professor. You may choose to  present your research in Dutch or in English (this differs from previous years).

Trainings

We will provide you with two trainings: one in storytelling and one in presentation skills:

Storytelling sessions will take place on:
Wednesday 14 February: 09:00 – 12:00 hrs.
Location: TBA
or
Thursday 15 February; 14.00-17.00 hrs.
Location: TBA

Please let us know which date you prefer, but try to keep both these moments free in your agenda in case we have to reshuffle the groups.

Presentation trainings will take place on:
Wednesday 28 February, 13:00 – 17:00 hrs. 
Location TBA
or
Thursday 1 March, 09:00 – 13:00 hrs. 
Location TBA

Please let us know which date you prefer, but try to keep both these moments free in your agenda in case we have to reshuffle the groups. The maximum number of participants is 32. After this amount is reached we will work with a reserve list.
 
Preliminaries and final
Preliminaries will take place on:       
Monday 12 March, 15:00-18:00 approximately   
Wednesday 14 March, 15:00 and 18:00 approximately
Location: Red Room, Trigon building, Donders Institute

From each of these two preliminaries, a maximum of 4 participants will continue to the Radboud Talks finale. The finale with a total of 8 contestants will take place on: Monday 16 April, location: LUX.

One winner will be chosen out of the finalists by a jury of science communication experts. The winner will receive a personal science communication budget of 1.000 Euro.
 
Why participate?

• Improve your storytelling skills with a (mandatory) workshop on how to build up your story and bring it to life.
• Improve your presentation with personal feedback from the science communication officers.
• Improve your presentation skills with a (mandatory) half-day workshop offering you tips & tricks about how to present an exciting story on stage.
• Share your research with a broad audience.
• Get to know other young, enthusiastic researchers from all fields of science.
• When you make it to the finale: receive a professional video of your pitch, useful for your personal website or social media.  

For more information and registration: link. Application deadline 31 January 2018.
 
Radboud Talks is based on FameLab: an international contest for young scientists eager to share their scientific story with the world. Participating in Radboud Talks does not include you in the FameLab competition, but will however provide an excellent preparation. For more information about the FameLab preliminaries, check this link.