European Students' Conference
European Students' Conference | |
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Location | Berlin, Germany |
Founded | 1989 |
active participants | 400-600 |
passive participants | 200-300 |
Prize money | > 1000 € |
Official website | https://www.esc-berlin.charite.de |
The European Students' Conference (ESC) is currently the largest biomedical conference for young researchers and medical students as well as alumni and postgraduates in Europe. The ESC is one of the largest student-led conferences of its kind worldwide and offers a high scientific level. It has been held annually at the Charité University Medicine in Berlin since 1989 . The overall theme of this year's conference is “Future Aging - Today's Research, Tomorrow's Medicine”.
development
Founded in 1989, the European Students' Conference has developed into one of the main events of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. With the original idea of creating a better relationship between East and West Berlin and enabling scientific exchange in a time of major political changes, it became a joint conference of the Berlin medical faculties after reunification in October 1990. One of the main concerns of the ESC is the promotion of young scientists in the medical and biomedical fields as well as the linking of the biomedical sciences, faculties and students on an international level.
program
The program is divided into three areas: lectures by international scientific and medical representatives (Nobel Prize winners, professors, doctors, researchers), cross-disciplinary workshops and sessions in which more than 250 research projects, broken down by subject area, are presented and awarded annually. The conference receives an annual focus of its lectures, which is eponymous for the respective conference, but in no way restricts the variety of the more than 40 subject areas represented in the sessions and workshops. In particular, the conference serves for the interaction of
- Students of human, dental and veterinary medicine and related disciplines
- young and experienced scientists
- Newcomers and the public
- University medicine, pharmaceutical industry and economy
- young scientists and students of human, dental and veterinary medicine who are interested in doing research in Germany
- young scientists and students of human, dental and veterinary medicine who are interested in researching in international projects at the Charité
aims
It is a platform for scientific exchange, training and multicultural interaction. The focus is particularly on high scientific quality and training. Students of medicine , dentistry and related disciplines are given the opportunity to present their research results, to make contact with young and experienced scientists, to listen to lectures by renowned researchers and to exchange ideas with representatives from business , research and medicine. In addition, the ESC opens up the possibility of finding out about working and research conditions nationally and worldwide and offers the opportunity to establish contact between interested researchers and potential employers.
Sponsorships
- Federal Ministry Of Education And Research
- Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Cooperation partner
- Meeting of the Nobel Laureates in Lindau
- Max Planck Society
- Jung Foundation for Science and Research
- German Heart Center Berlin
The European Students' Conference is the official Academic Ambassador of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Conference . In this function, the operational team is allowed to propose ten candidates from the active ESC participants (poster presentation, abstract presentation) for the Nobel Laureate Conference in Lindau in the following year.
The following organizations are student cooperation partners :
- ISCOMS
- AIMS Meeting Lisbon, Portugal
- YES Meeting Porto, Portugal
- Braincoms Sao Paulo, Brazil
- ICMS Sofia, Bulgaria
- Juvenes Pro Medicina Lodz, Poland
- Leiden International Medical Student Conference (LIMSC)
- PKS Split, Croatia
structure
The organization team
The ESC is planned and carried out by five to eight students, who are appointed by the Steering Committee and the previous team in an annual selection procedure. The tasks are divided into project coordination, scientific coordination / jury and program, finance, fundraising, PR, logistics and IT management:
- Programs & Science: Creation of the conference program, scientific coordination, jury
- Finances: finances
- Fundraising: procurement of third-party funds, contacting foundations, companies
- Marketing & Applicant Support: Public Relations
- Programs & Logistics: Program and logistics
- IT: website and web-based computer support before and during the conference
- Project coordination: mediation between the areas of responsibility and bundling of results
The operational team receives advisory support from the previous teams, the Steering Committee and the Medical Faculty of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Alumni
As an ESC alumni, each member of the previous team is called upon to support the operational team in an advisory capacity in the implementation of the project and the follow-up to the conference. The ESC alumni are involved in general discussions about the ESC.
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee (SC) of the European Students' Conference is represented by several active representatives of the ESC alumni. Any member of the operational team can be appointed to the Steering Committee after a break of over a year.
The Steering Committee works on a voluntary basis and performs the following tasks, among others:
- Selection of the operative team, approval by the Dean of the Charité
- Knowledge transfer between the operational and the previous organizational team
- Mediation of workshops to professionalize the operational team
- Determination of times for reviewing what has been achieved and comparing it with the goals of the conference.
- Help in difficult situations
The Steering Committee is neither responsible for the procurement of third-party funds nor involved in the program planning of the operational team.
Web links
- Official website
- [1] Video trailer of the ESC
- Other academic student conferences