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Awards

CCCA Poster Awards

During the Klimatag, participants have the opportunity to rate the displayed posters. Based on this, a jury awards the poster prize.

The poster must meet the following criteria:

  • The poster is visually appealing and its message is clearly understandable.
  • The content of the poster is of high scientific quality and innovative.
  • The content of the poster has high scientific and societal relevance.

The jury will re-evaluate the posters rated highest by the audience and award prizes to the 3 posters that best meet the criteria. Prizes will only be awarded to posters whose authors are represented by at least one person at the award ceremony. The award ceremony will take place on Thu, 4 April as part of Session V "Impacts & Adaptations" from 11:45 – 13:30.

We'd like to let you know that virtual posters are excluded from the CCCA Poster Award. Since posters were also selected for on-site presentation based on reviews and the decision of the programme committee, this creates an inequality for virtual posters, which we'd like to avoid. 

The following posters were selected for the top 3 places:

The following people were part of the poster jury:

  • Harald Rieder (BOKU & CCCA Board)

  • Gudrun Weinwurm (TU Wien) 

  • Tania Berger (UWK)

 

CCCA Early Career Researcher Award

The CCCA Early Career Researcher Award for 2024 was presented to two colleagues, as both submissions were of outstanding quality: 

The annual CCCA Early Career Researcher Award will also be presented at the 24th Klimatag. With this award, CCCA aims to shine a spotlight on and recognise the scientific achievements of early career researchers. Submissions are made via a scientific publication, which is evaluated by renowned scientists. Each applicant receives written feedback on their submitted paper. The highest-rated paper is awarded a prize of €1,000 at the Klimatag and presented in a talk in a scientific session. This year, the programme committee decided for the first time to select two winners, as both submissions were of outstanding quality. The prize money is therefore €500 per winner. Following successful completion of the review process, the aim is to also give all other submitted scientific publications a presence at the Klimatag in the form of poster presentations during the lunch and coffee breaks.

Criteria for the CCCA Early Career Researcher Award

  • The thematic context and the relevance of the contribution to the current climate change debate beyond the boundaries of one's own scientific discipline must be clearly presented.
  • The work should make clear why it is innovative or why it makes an innovative contribution to the climate change debate.
  • The research question and findings of the paper must be presented in a way that's accessible to a general audience.
  • The work must be methodologically sound.
  • The work must demonstrate familiarity with the relevant literature.
  • Figures and tables must be informative and easy to read.
  • The contribution may be written in English or German.

Eligibility criteria

  • Timely submission of a scientific paper for the CCCA Early Career Researcher Award (submission deadline: Thursday, 19 October 2023, 23:00).
  • The submitted paper has either already been published in a recognised scientific journal or accepted for publication (with minor or major revisions) (in 2022 or 2023). In any case, the relevant journal must be specified and the "Editorial Decision Email" from the respective journal must be included.
  • The applicant must be the sole or first author and must have largely conceived, analysed, and written the work themselves. In the case of co-authorships, the submission must indicate how the work was divided amongst the co-authors (at least 50% of the text written by the applicant).
  • Academic age of the author: max. 5 years after highest academic degree (excluding maternity leave and parental leave periods).