Three Minute Thesis : National Finals

 
Making an audience of as many non-specialists from different backgrounds as possible understand years of research in just three minutes is the challenge set by the CNRS and the Conférence des Présidents d’Université (University Presidents Conference) for PhD students. For “Ma these en 180 secondes”, every French university research consortium has answered the call for volunteers and their best candidates will come together on the 3rd June 2015 for the national finals in Nancy.
 
Ma thèse en 180 secondes” is based on the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, developed at the University of Queensland, and taken up in 2012 in Quebec by the Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS) who wished to extend the project to all French-speaking countries. In 2014, the CPU and the CNRS decided to jointly invite all French PhD students to take part in the competition. That same year, France won the international finals of the competition in Quebec.
 
A spotlight on French research, this competition is also a unique chance for PhD students to popularise the contents and the issues of their research for the general public, and to acquire communication competences – far more than just an exercise in style.
 
This year, exceptionally, Science & You will be hosting the national finals of the competition on the 3rd June 2015 which will select the three winners to go on to represent France at the international finals which will take place at the Sorbonne in Paris on the 1st October.
 
Partners :
  • La Caisse des Dépôts,
  • CASDEN,
  • MGEN,
  • The “La Tête au Carré” programme on French radio France Inter,
  • Pour La Science
The 2015 National Finals are organised in partnership with the Université de Lorraine, the FEDER and the Lorraine Regional Council.

 

Registration on MT180.fr