Join us on March 13 for an inspiring morning at the Joint Research Institute Symposium!
This symposium aims to showcase inspiring achievements and innovative ideas from researchers, celebrate new PhD positions and grants, and engage early career researchers in a competitive pitch event. UMCG's research institutes - Health in Context, Personalized Medicine and Mechanisms of Health, Aging and Disease - invite all UMCG researchers to join. Participation is free and includes lunch.
Register here
What to expect?
- Discover examples of inspiring achievements from each institute through keynote lectures by senior researchers.
- Be amazed by the innovative ideas of our early career researchers via the ‘Pitch4Impact’ competition and vote for your winner.
- Celebrate the 2024 UMCG funded PhD positions and UMCG internal grants (Networking and Impact Accelerator).
- Meet fellow researchers and find connection over a well catered lunch.
Compete for the Pitch4Impact Award
Are you an early career researcher (i.e., PhD student or within 10 years after PhD graduation) and eager to attract UMCG-wide attention for your innovative research? Join the pitch competition to win the audience selected 'Pitch4Impact' award!
- Submit your abstract by February 10, 2025.
- Evaluation criteria include attractiveness pitch presentation title and abstract (max. 150 words) and its novelty frame.
- Institute Management Teams will select three abstracts per institute.
- Selected competitors will be notified by February 28, 2025 to prepare their 6 minute pitch presentation.
Submit your abstract here
