Course of training lectures on designing and giving talks on scientific projects (course) took place in the FAIR-Russia Research Center (FRRC) on 27-28 of March 2017. The lectures were given by Sascha Vogel – Scientific Coordinator of Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research for FAIR, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Winners of the Eighth FRRC Contest among students, PhD students and young PhDs as well as participants of the research groups, who work in FRRC in the scope of the Young Leaders Program, participated in the course.
The course included lectures on:
-proper slides design;
-posters design;
-proper visualization of information;
-proper presenting of slides and information to audience;
-Q&A with audience;
-pantomime and contact with audience.
The course was held in the form of presenting the projects. Participants gave presentations on scientific and science-related topics, after which they had active discussion: noted mistakes, time consumption, gestures, etc. Sascha Vogel also gave lectures on right techinques of avoiding typical mistakes in slides design, on proper contact with audience, etc.
Participants were satisfied with gained experience and knowledge, which again shows the effectiveness of these courses and proves their positive influence on young scientists’ presentations on international scientific events.
