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  2. Students’ scientific competition

Students’ scientific competition

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What is Students’ scientific competition?

What is it about?

Within Student scientific and professional activity you have a unique opportunity to participate in the scientific research activities of the department that is closest to your interests. For the presentation of the results of your research, research or professional activities, the Faculty of Forestry organizes an annual faculty conference, where you also have the opportunity to perform and present your results.

How to do it?

Simple! You want to realize yourself during your studies, to prove yourself and your surroundings the ability to think creatively. If you really want to, then all you have to do is choose the topic you want to deal with and apply to one of the departments with a teacher who deals with this issue and whom you have chosen as a consultant. The only condition for your participation is the submission of a short written work (about 10-20 pages) about what you found out in your research. The written work should be in the format of the original scientific work.

The 65nd year of the international Students’ scientific competition will take place on April 9, 2025

the deadline for sending applications is March 13, 2025
the deadline for sending annotations is March 20, 2025

What do I get out of it?

Possibility to use the obtained results, knowledge and skills in writing and defending a diploma, resp. bachelor thesis. For graduates, especially those who are finishing this year, their performance within the competition should be a "general" before the actual defence of the thesis. For those interested in doctoral studies, participation in the students competition should be an absolute matter of course. The best works in individual sections are financially rewarded and, of course, there are also material prizes. Students with bachelor's theses also have the opportunity to participate. The best works will be published in a peer-reviewed proceedings.

The rest of us?

Let's come and encourage our colleagues, let's vote on the special prize of the student audience in each section and one of us will receive a prize in kind.
How to proceed with the competition?

1. Application for the Students’ competition works

The application can be obtained on this page or from a member of the Competition Council of the relevant department. The application must be completed and sent to a member of the Council by e-mail.

Registration

2. Scientific work for the competition

The work for the competition should have the character of an original scientific work. The scope of work is not precisely determined, 10-20 pages are recommended, including appendices (pictures, tables, literature and photographs). The work can also be prepared in a foreign language, in agreement with a member of the competition board. In case of sufficient interest, a special section will be created for works presented in a foreign language.

Recommended structure of scientific work:

The work contains the following parts:

Title page – begins with the name of the department, faculty and university, continues with a brief and concise title (maximum 12 words), name and surname of the student, designation "work of the WHO", year of the student, name and surname of the supervisor, year of writing.

Abstract – a brief summary of the work in the language in which the work is done, keywords are included.

Content of the work

  • Introduction and issues – formulation of the scientific problem and the relationship of the work to previous works with similar issues. The introduction should be concise and factual.
  • Objective of the work– briefly and clearly defined goals that the work should achieve.
  • Material and methods – working procedure described in a sufficient way. The experimental material should be presented in such a way as to concisely characterize the object of research with regard to the objective on which the research is focused.
  • Results – accurately and clearly presented data and data from the evaluation of experimental material.
  • Discussion – confrontation of the obtained results with the results of other authors. If appropriate, the chapter Results and Discussion can be mentioned in the common section.
  • Literature  – list of all used literature. Only the publications mentioned in the text are listed. Citations should be listed alphabetically by first author name.
  • Attachments – pictures, tables, literature and photographs.
  • Contact details – name and surname of the author, department, address, email, telephone

Abbreviations, marks, formulas, foreign letters must be written uniformly and correctly. Formulas and equations with indices must be written with the correct graduation to the base line. The equations should be marked on the right margin with a serial Arabic number in parentheses. Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively, with a concise title for each table (above the table) and figure (below the figure). In the work it is necessary to provide a reference to the table or. image if the text refers to their content. Tables and figures may be part of the text or may be given as an appendix at the end of the thesis, which must be marked as a separate chapter with the title of the appendix without numbering. The work of ŠVOČ should be prepared in the Slovak language in two copies in A4 format, bound in any form, i. quick bond, comb bond or hard bond.

The scientific work can be submitted as an original scientific work. The best works will be published in a peer-reviewed proceedings.

The printed work must be submitted in 2 copies on the day of the students competition to the relevant section officer before the start of the presentations.

3. Annotation of the work

The annotation contains the name of the author, the year, the name of the department where the work was prepared, the name of the supervisor of the work, the title of the work and the brief and concise content (abstract) of the work. Annotation cannot exceed one A5 page size for Times New Roman font, font size 9, and line spacing 1 (simple). It must be submitted in printed form in A4 page size as well as in electronic form in MS Word format, either on a data medium or by e-mail to a member of the competition board of the relevant department. The annotations will be published in a collection of annotations, which is published annually.

 

Annotation pattern

4. Presentation of the work

The presentation of the work represents the focus of the competition. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare for it responsibly. The presentation should be factual, concise and reasonably concise. The presentation itself should not exceed a duration of 10 (max. 15) min. Each presentation is followed by a discussion with the members of the commission and the audience, which lasts up to 5 minutes, depending on the circumstances. It is recommended to use the PowerPoint program during the presentation - a laptop with a data projector is available as standard. In the case of the use of transparent foils or another method of presentation, it is necessary to notify the member of the Council of the relevant department in advance.

švoč - Students’ scientific competition

Important dates

The 65th year of the Students’ scientific competition will take place on April 9, 2025.

The deadline for sending applications is March 13, 2025.

The deadline for sending annotations is March 20, 2025.

Council of the Students’ scientific competition
doc. Ing. Martin Lieskovský, PhD.
+421 455 206 285
Chairman
Ing. Michal Ferenčík, PhD.
+421 455 206 333
doc. Ing. Daniel Halaj, PhD.
+421 455 206 320
Ing. Vladimír Juško, PhD.
+421 455 206 278
Ing. Adriana Leštianska, PhD.
+421 455 206 268
doc. RNDr. Judita Kochjarová, CSc.
+421 455 206 497
doc. Ing. Martin Pavlík, PhD.
+421 455 206 253

Ing. Ján Pittner, PhD.
+421 455 206 238
Ing. Roman Sitko, PhD.
+421 455 206 294
Ing. Marek Štefanec, PhD.
+421 455 206 249
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