The third EuMW 2010 Student Challenge in Paris is organized in order to bridge the gap between young researchers from academia and industry. This competition is also the way to gather other students with different skills from all over the world and promote active participation and teamwork, essential in all working environments.

During the EuMW 2010 Student Challenge period, different interim teams will come into being. Each team comprises with a maximum of 3 members with various background. The aim of each team is to present and explain fresh application-oriented concepts of oral presentations and posters contributed to the conferences belonging to EuMW 2010. At the end of the competition, each team needs to produce a clear defence of innovative concepts developed in the conference during 5 minutes. A technical jury, composed by eminent members of university or industry evaluates the presentation and the poster of each team according to different criteria such as originality, content, feasibility and clarity. The winning team receives the EuMW 2010 Student Challenge Prize with a value of € 1500 sponsored by Thales Nederland.

All participants are invited to an evening event in the downtown of Paris .

All PhD and Master students registered in anyone of the EuMW 2010 Conferences are eligible for participating to the Student Challenge. Please register here. For latest team, a registration desk will be present, if some places are still available at that time. Click here to see the programme of this event. Besides, a detailed schedule, participation rules, and winning criteria will be distributed in advance to the participants by email, and will be available at the registration desk of EuMW2010.

The EuMW2010 Student Challenge leaflet is available for download here (in PDF format).

The poster template for the competition is available for download here (in PPT format).

You can find the detailed description of the competition is available here (in DOC format).

You can download free software for creating and modifying PPT and DOC files from this link. The organizers kindly thank Thales Nederland for sponsoring the EuMW2010 Student Challenge.

A Committee of Recommendation, including EuMA members, TPC members, and professors, strongly supports the EuMW2010 Student Challenge:

- Eric Rius
- Tom Brazil
- Fabio Filicori
- Jiasheng Hong
- Christophe Gaquière

EuMW 2010 Student Challenge organising team, left to right: Mayazzurra Ruggiano (Advisor), Romain Crunelle, Arame Thiam, Nicolas Waldhoff (Chairperson), Chang Wu and Albert Noudeviwa.