The summer school is part of the DAAD funded project “Visibility of Public Teaching and Research in South-East European Countries” (financed through funds granted by the Federal Foreign Office).

Participants will receive input on all relevant aspects of scientific publishing. The summer school uses a very hands-on, practice-based approach, for which both face to face, as well as e-learning teaching methods will be used. The summer school will provide students with information on a wide spectrum of publishing-related aspects, such as

• citation standards;
• research quality criteria;
• systematic literature research methods and public health literature databases;
• use of English in scientific contexts;
• overcoming challenges in writing the various sections of a scientific article;
• requirements from the publisher’s perspective, authorship, the peer-review process, impact factors, etc.

The summer school seminars will be taught by experienced scientists from both German and South-east European universities. All costs will be covered for the participants.

Application details:

PhD or master students from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, the FYR of Macedonia, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and the Republic of Moldova are invited to apply.

Do apply, if you:
• Are a master or PhD student in public health or a public health related discipline (medicine, social sciences);
• You have conducted a personal study or have been involved in a study on a public health relevant topic and you have data which are sufficient to prepare a publication;
• You want to publish your research findings in a peer-reviewed journal;
• You have good command of English.

You can apply by submitting the following documents to Daniela Gohl, MPH by April 30:
• CV (European Union standard format);
• Letter of motivation, including a short abstract (no more than 200 words) of the envisaged publication and a work schedule;
• Letter of recommendation from one of your lecturers;
• Scanned copy of an official English translation of your most recent academic degree (bachelor or master diploma).
Please note that all documents must be submitted in English.

Source: Information provided by organisers.

Date:
From: 4 September 2011
To: 10 September 2011