Master and Bachelor Students Competition on Innovation in the Automotive Sector 2011

WHAT IS A MASTER AND BACHELOR STUDENTS COMPETITION ON INNOVATION IN THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR 2011?

The MASTER AND BACHELOR STUDENTS COMPETITION 2011 is a competition for students in a bachelor´s and master´s programme. The competition gives the students an opportunity to showcase their work to experts within the field of Innovation in the automotive sector.

Students are asked to submit a paper and a poster online and then a paper and a poster under one of the MASTER AND BACHELOR STUDENTS COMPETITION 2011 interesting topics:

• MANAGEMENT,
• INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING,
• PRODUCTION QUALITY

with focus on "INNOVATION IN THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR".

The competition is intended for students in a bachelor´s and master´s programme. Eligibility is restricted to students in the AUTOCLUSTER project partners research institutions as listed below:

• Slovakia: MTF STU Trnava
• Italy: CREATE – NET TRENTO
• Italy: University of Trento
• Romania: TU Iasi
• Italy: Comunimprese Scarl

COMPETITION FORMULA

• All papers and posters must be written in English.
• Maximum 2 students per a paper and a poster.
• Students are required to submit a paper and a poster in PDF format.
• All papers shall be formatted for an A4 size page, the bottom and top margins shall be 25 mm, the left margins shall be 35 mm and the right margin shall be 20 mm.
• All papers must be max. 10 pages, min 3 pages.

Please refer to the templates for full guidelines.

SUBMISSION

Submissions will be accepted only through ASSYST.

How to apply?

Please make sure you complete all the following steps to successfully submit a paper and a poster:

• Write your paper and poster according to the guidelines outlined on the website EAI.
• Contact organizers before submission on ASSYST and send .doc and .pdf format.
• Enter ASSYST and login-in.
  
• Then enter the specific competition “ACSEE-Master/PhD-country”.
• Enter information and upload documents.

WHERE AND HOW THE COMPETITION IS RUN:

Each submission will happen per country:

• Each specific Country Evaluation Committee will select winners.

PRIZES

All applicants

• will get CDs with all posters.

The country specific finalists:

• will be announced online (EAI / AUTOCLUSTERS website),
• will have a video interview or a demo published online (EAI/Autoclusters website),
• will have the poster displayed during the international event.

The winners:

• will get interesting prizes.

DEADLINES

Paper and Poster Submission Deadline	20. October 2011
EVALUATION Period	21. October – 31. October 2011
Notification Date WINNERS	01. November 2011
International EVENT	17. November 2011 (Trento, Italy)

Further Information

If you have any further queries of questions please contact the MASTER AND BACHELOR STUDENTS COMPETITION 2011 organizers: For Slovakia, please contact: Martina Jakabova, Petra Markova and Dagmar Caganova. For support regarding Assyst.org please contact: Elena Jane Ferrardi.

For more information about Master and Bachelor Students Competition 2011 visit the link ACSEE and EAI.