Doctoral School / UAM

The Doctoral Schools of the University of Alcalá (UAH), the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC), with the sponsorship of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation, which co-funds the awards, jointly announce the Ninth “Thesis in 3 minutes” Contest with the aim of challenging their doctoral students to present their research work during a time-limited intervention, through a simple and intelligible language that is able to reach the general public. Its objective is to bring the work of trainee researchers closer to society in order to instill in them an interest in popularizing and spreading science (the call can be found in the download area).

1º The contest is open to PhD students who are at least in their second year of training in a Doctoral Program, in one of the five organizing universities, and who have passed at least one annual evaluation.

2º The competition consists of two phases:

UAM Preliminary Phase (May 23, 2025). One candidate for each of the five branches of knowledge (Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences, and Engineering and Architecture) will be selected from among all UAM participants. 

Final phase UAM (June 13, 2025). Inter-university phase in which the candidates selected by each University in that phase will participate. Each of the winners in each branch of knowledge will receive a prize of 600 €. The remaining finalists, winners of the previous phase in each university, will receive a prize of 100 €. This year the final phase will take place at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).

The research work must be presented in prose and in Spanish.

In this link you can see the final phase of the eighth edition of the contest (June 2024).

3º If you are interested in participating, you must complete the application form (download area, where you will also find the general instructions to participate in the contest).

At the moment of applying to participate in the competition, candidates must have the approval of their Doctoral Thesis Director. When the signatures of the directors are not digital, it is necessary that they are accredited by sending in pdf the email where the director approves the participation. You can save the email in pdf or print it as pdf. Screenshots are not accepted.

4º The application form (and, if applicable, the authorization) must be sent to the following e-mail address: doctorado.gestion@uam.es indicating in the subject: Thesis in 3 minutes.

Deadline: from April 1 to April 24, 2025. The deadline will be closed from 23:59 hours on April 24, so that mails received after 00:00 on April 25, Spanish peninsular time, will be excluded.

5º From that date on, the admitted applications will be published, which may be rectified, and then the definitive list of admitted applicants will be published.

6º May 20, 2025 will be the deadline for sending to doctorado.gestion@uam.es (subject: slide T3M) a static slide in pdf format (file name: Apellido1_Nombre_Diapositiva_T3M).