Union Young Scientists’ Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award

In relation with its General Assemblies, the Union presents a number of special awards, such as presently the:

• Young Scientists’ Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and, most importantly, to foster the excitement of younger colleagues in presenting their work in form of a poster

Eligible for the Young Scientists’ Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award are MS and PhD students as well as recent graduates (conferral of degree after 1 January of the year preceding the conference) presenting their thesis work provided they are the first author and personally present their poster at the conference. Once the programme has been finalized, authors presenting a poster are invited to register for the award. Their data are then transferred to the respective Division Award Committee, which selects the best poster paper at the meeting. Further details are included on the Home Site of the respective General Assembly.

Each laureate will be notified after the decision has been made. The names will be published on the EGU homepage and the awardees will get the opportunity to post their posters electronically. The names will also be published in the EGU newsletter, and they will receive a conference fee waiver for the next EGU General Assembly. At the business meeting of the respective Division held at this General Assembly each laureate will receive a certificate of the award and will be invited to submit a scientific paper which presents the results presented and discussed on the poster awarded to one of the EGU journals, termed the YSOPP paper, free of any service charges.