The EUI Economics Department is delighted to host its Second Year Forum.
The Second Year Forum marks an important milestone in the academic journey of our students. It is the first formal opportunity for them to present the work developed for their thesis projects. Beyond strengthening their oral presentation skills, the Forum serves as a valuable moment of exchange: through feedback and discussion, students gain insights and direction to further refine and advance their research.
The main requirement for admission to the third year is to successfully complete the Second year Forum at the end of May, and specifically:
1) Researchers must have a project that has a strong potential for a thesis chapter (i.e., feasible and when completed it can be publishable in a good field journal or better);
2) There are already some preliminary presentable results supporting this judgement. For the Second-Year Forum, each researcher has to prepare a 30-minute presentation of the project. Faculty members are required to attend at least the presentations of their first and second supervisees.
Second-year researchers are required to attend all presentations. The presentation in the second-year forum is the key vehicle to deliver the project. In addition, researchers need to provide a document that carefully details their progress and contains the preliminary results and a clear path to success. It should be structured like a research paper, but can be incomplete.
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