How to Participate

ALL participants of the FEBS2007 congress are strongly encouraged to write a press release on their scientific topic and take part in the Media Writing Contest. The press releases should be based on the authors submitted scientific abstracts or on recent (2006/2007) publications of their scientific work. The press releases must have been written by the participants themselves and should not have been published in the media yet.

Contributions should be of no more than 2000 characters including spaces (see also “Writing Guidelines”). The text should be written in English.

Interested scientists should submit their press releases to the Abstract Submission System. Please submit the corresponding scientific abstract or the corresponding publication(s) and, if possible, a digital image illustrating the topic of the press release (300 dpi) via e-mail: mediacontest07@univie.ac.at

The deadline for submission is the 15 ^th of May, 2007.

The expert jury will evaluate criteria such as newsworthiness, clarity of language, engaging presentation of topic and format of the press release. Members of the jury are: Klaus Taschwer (daily newspaper “der Standard”), Birgit Dalheimer (ORF – Austrian national broadcasting), Christian Müller (APA – Austrian Press Agency), Andrew Moore (EMBO Science&Society), Elisabeth Waigmann (FEBS Science&Society).