Organizer of the event:
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
Faculty of Economics and Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering, Miercurea Ciuc
| Address: | Miercurea Ciuc, judeţul Harghita, Piaţa Libertăţii nr. 1., 530104 |
| Phone: | +40-266-314-657 |
| Website: | https://csik.sapientia.ro/ |
Section website address: https://csik.sapientia.ro/otdk2025/
Section e-mail address: 37agrarotdk@uni.sapientia.ro
Date of the event: 24–26 April 2025.
| Chair of the Organizing Committee: | Dr. Ede Lázár |
| Associate Professor, President of the University Senate | |
| Address: Miercurea Ciuc, judeţul Harghita, Piaţa Libertăţii nr. 1., 530104 | |
| E-mail: lazarede@uni.sapientia.ro |
| Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee: | Dr Adalbert Balog |
| University Professor, Vice-Rector, ETDT Chair | |
| Address: Târgu Mureș, O.p. 9, C.p. 4. 540485, Romania | |
| E-mail: adalbert.balog@ms.sapientia.ro | |
| Secretary of the Organizing Committee: | Dr. Rozália Veronika Salamon |
| Associate Professor | |
| Address: Miercurea Ciuc, judeţul Harghita, Piaţa Libertăţii nr. 1., 530104 | |
| E-mail: salamonrozalia@uni.sapientia.ro |
| Student delegate: | Nándor Asztalos |
| President of the Student Government, Faculty of Economics and Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering, Miercurea Ciuc
Address: Miercurea Ciuc, judeţul Harghita, Piaţa Libertăţii nr. 1., 530104 E-mail: asztalosinandor@uni.sapientia.ro |
The National Association for Student Research (OTDT), the Agricultural Sciences Section Committee of the OTDT and the organizing Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania hereby announce the Agricultural Sciences Section of the 37th National Student Research Conference under the conditions of the following call.
The conditions for participation and registration in the Agricultural Sciences Section of the 37th OTDK are set out in the General Call of the 37th OTDK and in this Call of the OTDT Agricultural Sciences Committee.
Only those TDK papers that and for which all the authors meet all the requirements set out in point 2 of Supplement 2 to the General Call of the 37th OTDK, shall be eligible for the 37th OTDK.
Study circles from cross-border universities and colleges can participate in the 37th OTDK under the same professional conditions as those in Hungary. Details are available in the General Call of the 37th OTDK.
The conference is also open to secondary school students in Hungary and across borders who present their research results at conferences of higher education institutions or national high school science student conferences (for details see Supplement 4 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK) and are nominated for the 37th OTDK. A detailed description of the participation of secondary school students is available in the General Call of the 37th OTDK.
A thesis produced in the course of continuous TDK activity during BA and BSc education, can be entered to the 37th OTDK, if it meets the requirements of the Call and its Supplements and has been presented at a student research conference either during the BA/BSc or the subsequent MA/MSc training and has there been delegated to the OTDK.
Supplement 1 to the Section Call includes:
During the application process, students must indicate at least two sessions: the most suitable for presenting their TDK paper, as well as another session that could also be appropriate.
The fundamental rules for the establishment of the final session assignment are included in the General Call of the 37th OTDK. The Agricultural Sciences Section Committee may, based on the number of TDK papers received and their topic, merge some of the planned sessions/topics or create additional ones, so that the TDK paper may be assigned to a different session than the one indicated by the author(s) during registration. The condition for starting an independent session is the receipt of at least 6 TDK papers in the given topic, on the condition that at least 5 of the 6 to 15 papers will be presented at the 37th OTDK. If the number of TDK papers to be presented in a given session is fewer than 5, that session must be merged with another session at the discretion of the Chair of the Agricultural Sciences Section Committee. The organizing institution, with the agreement of the Agricultural Sciences Section Committee, reserves the right to redirect submissions with content that does not align with the Section’s field of study to another session of the National Student Research Conference that is more appropriate for the topic, with thanks for the application.
The final decision on the sessions and the classification of the TDK papers will be made by the Agricultural Sciences Section Committee. Students will be informed of this decision via the OTDT online system by 28 February 2025 at the latest.
Following the institutional TDK conference, the upload of the TDK paper and selection of the section must be completed within 30 days of the email specified in point 4 of Supplement No. 2 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK.
ATTENTION! Uploading a TDK paper does not constitute an entry to the OTDK, applications must be submitted during the registration period, following the steps described in the next section.
Registration period: 15 November 2024 – 8 January 2024 (Wednesday), 16:00 (CET)
Students’ tasks during this period are:
A common expectation for documents signed by hand or electronically:
a) a document authenticated using the Authentication Verification Service (AVDH, at https://magyarorszag.hu/avdh), using the Client Gateway or any other document authenticated using an enhanced security qualified electronic signature service
OR
b) a printed and hand-signed document may be accepted in scanned (PDF) format.
After the registration deadline (8 January 2025, 16:00, CET) it will no longer be possible to upload application documents in the OTDT online system.
Uploading the documents of the student research conference and sending them electronically, via email to the OTDT Office according to point 3 of Supplement 2 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK.
A) Approval of participant registrations in the OTDT online system (all registrations are automatically approved in the system, so action is only required if the institution/faculty/institute does not wish to delegate a submitted TDK paper to the OTDK).
B) For TDK papers and authors registered in the Agricultural Sciences Section, the summary list of approved registrations must be printed from the OTDT online system, signed by hand, scanned, and uploaded in PDF format to the OTDT online system, OR the summary list generated in Excel format from the OTDT online system must be converted to PDF, electronically signed, and then uploaded to the OTDT online system.
Common expectations for documents signed by hand or electronically:
a) a document authenticated using the Authentication Verification Service (AVDH, at https://magyarorszag.hu/avdh), using the Client Gateway or any other document authenticated using an enhanced security qualified electronic signature service
OR
b) a printed and hand-signed document may be accepted in scanned (PDF) format.
Deadline for faculty/institutional TDT Chairs to upload documents to the OTDT online system: 13 January 2025 (Monday) 16:00 (CET). After the deadline it will no longer be possible to upload application documents in the OTDT online system.
We are unable to accept TDK papers that do not meet the requirements outlined in the Section Call of the Agricultural Sciences Section; such applications will be rejected without review due to formal errors.
Submission of the TDK paper is only possible through the OTDT online system; submission by mail or in person is not accepted. The OTDT Office and the Organizing institution do not request or accept any paper-based documents.
The registration fees for the 37th OTDK will be determined at a later stage, subject to the availability of funding.
A certificate of participation in the OTDK will be awarded to all authors and supervisors of each paper presented. In addition, a maximum of one third of the papers presented may be awarded one of the first, second and third places per section, taking into account that a maximum of one application per session may be awarded first place. The Section Panel may award a special prize to those papers that do not achieve ranking but are judged by the Session Panel to be worthy of recognition on the basis of their professional merit, and which are judged to be immediately behind the winning applications. The authors of the winning papers and those of the papers receiving the Special Prize of the Session Panel will each receive a certificate for the ranking or the Special Prize of the Session Panel.
The total number of winning papers and papers awarded the Special Prize of the Session Panel may not exceed 50% of the total number of papers presented in a section. Further rules on prizes are set out in Supplement 3 to the General Call.
The authors of TDK papers that have been awarded first place at the OTDK may apply for the Pro Scientia Gold Medal, provided they meet the additional criteria set out in the call. Details are given in Supplement 5 of the 37th OTDK General Call.
We invite and welcome all interested students and their masters!
Budapest, 9 April 2024.
| Dr. Attila Hegedűs | Dr. Adalbert Balog | Dr. Ede Lázár |
| University Professor | University Professor, Vice Rector | Associate Professor, President of the University Senate |
| Chair of the OTDT Agricultural Sciences Section Committee | Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 37th OTDK Agricultural Sciences Section | Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 37th OTDK Agricultural Sciences Section |
Note: If any interpretational issues arise between the Hungarian call and its English translation, the Hungarian version shall prevail.
The Agricultural Sciences Section prefers Hungarian-language papers and their presentation in Hungarian, but English-language TDK papers are also accepted with two conditions. If the participant has a foreign supervisor or is enrolled in an English-language course, an English-language TDK paper may be accepted. In the case of participants with Hungarian mother tongue, the presentation of the English-language TDK paper may be in the language that had been used at the qualifying student research conference. Participants of the SH program can present their TDK paper in English. Please note that the classification of TDK papers into sessions is based solely on professional criteria.
All TDK papers submitted to the 37th OTDK will be subject to a plagiarism check, the results of which will be reviewed and evaluated by a three-member special committee set up by the Agricultural Sciences Section Committee. Please note that plagiarism in any form is not allowed, including self-plagiarism (citation your own work without references). TDK papers that are proven to infringe copyright will be excluded from the 37th OTDK by the OTDT, with simultaneous notification to the nominating institution. Any TDK papers with a plagiarism test result showing a 50% or greater match will be automatically excluded. In the case of a text identity between 20-50%, the Organizing Committee, in consultation with the Chair of the OTDT Agricultural Sciences Section Committee, decides on the eligibility of the TDK paper. The results of the plagiarism check are sent to the chairs of the relevant review committees.
Participants submitting a TDK paper must declare in the OTDT online system whether they have used AI-based writing tools in the process of creating the text, and that the author of the paper acknowledges the professional and scientific content of the TDK paper, all its statements, findings, opinions, conclusions as their own, that these all reflect the professional position of the author of the paper, and that they takes responsibility for the text as a whole and for all its elements (the content of the statement can be found in Supplement 2 of the Agricultural Sciences Section Call of the 37th OTDK This document does not need to be uploaded separately to the OTDT online system).
General requirements:
Deadline for uploading the TDK paper to the OTDT online system: within 30 days after the acceptance of the record of the student research conference, as described in Supplement 2, point 4 of the 37th OTDK General Call. Participants who will be eligible to submit a TDK paper at a student research conference held within 30 days before the application deadline for the 37th OTDK Agricultural Sciences Section must upload their TDK paper to the OTDT online system by the application deadline.
All TDK papers must include the closing date (year).
The TDK paper must be uploaded in PDF format. The maximum file size is 10 megabytes.
TDK papers that do not meet the minimum page limit set by the Agricultural Sciences Section or exceed the maximum number of pages cannot be uploaded to the OTDT online system. The number of pages of the TDK papers are checked by the OTDT online system when they are uploaded.
General formal requirements:
Font: Times New Roman
Font size: 12 pt
Line spacing: 1.5
Margin: 2.5 cm
Section-specific requirements:
Minimum number of pages for the TDK paper: 30 pages
Maximum number of pages for the TDK paper: 50 pages
It is not possible to upload a supplementary document.
Method of referencing: see below.
Additional section-specific rules for the TDK paper:
Papers must follow the following internal structuring: Title page, Introduction, Objective, Literature review, Materials and methods, Results and their evaluation, Summary, Bibliography, Acknowledgements (if any). Figures and tables should be numbered and referred to accordingly in the text. Titles and captions of figures and tables, as well as literature references, should be in the format accepted by scientific journals. This format can follow any style, but must be consistent throughout the TDK paper. Content of the Title page: Institution, Faculty/Institute, title of the TDK paper, subtitle “TDK paper”, author(s), consultant(s), location (e.g. Pécs) and year.
The abstract must be uploaded to the OTDT online system, only the body text, other data (names of the co-authors, name of the institution, name of the supervisor(s), position, etc.) are generated by the OTDT online system.
The language of the abstract is Hungarian. If the language of the TDK paper is English, the abstract must also be uploaded in English.
The abstract should be at least 500 and no more than 2500 characters.
The abstract should include a brief description of the background and purpose of the work, a description of the methodology used and a clear statement of the student’s own results.
Submitted and accepted TDK papers will be evaluated in writing by two reviewers, based on the following criteria:
The maximum score that can be obtained in the written evaluation and the method of calculating the score of the TDK paper:
The maximum score that can be obtained in the written evaluation is 40, which is usually the arithmetic average of the scores obtained from two different reviewers.
If there is a significant difference of opinion (8 points or more), the chair of the review committee may ask a third reviewer to decide on the scientific value of the TDK paper.
If a third reviewer is involved, the weighted average is used for scoring, with the two closest scores being weighted by 0.4-0.4 points and the third assessment by 0.2 points only.
If the average score of the two written evaluations is less than 60% of the points available (24 points), the TDK paper must not be presented. This decision must be communicated to the applicant at least 10 days before the conference, with simultaneous notification to the nominating Institution/Faculty/Institute. The organizers of the Agricultural Sciences Section will strive to have the written evaluations ready by the 10th day before the conference, but if this is not the case, the TDK paper will not be excluded from the 37th OTDK for this reason.
The finalized evaluations (scores and written evaluations) will be published by the organizers of the Agricultural Science Section in the OTDT online system in the third week after the conference closes.
At the conference, participants will have 15 minutes to present their TDK paper (presentation), followed by a 10-minute discussion as a general rule.
The presentation will be evaluated by a Session Panel of recognized members of the field. Evaluation criteria for the presentation:
The maximum score for the presentation evaluation is 60 points.
DECLARATION
On the use of AI-based text writing tools
You need to make a declaration in the OTDT online system, you do not need to upload this document there!
| Name of the author of the TDK paper: | |
| Title of the TDK paper: |
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I declare that I have used / have not used artificial intelligence-based text writing tools in the writing of my TDK paper submitted to the Agricultural Sciences Section of the 37th National Student Research Conference.
I declare that I recognize the professional and scientific content of the TDK paper, as well as every statement, claim, conclusion, and opinion within it, as my own. As the author of the TDK paper, I affirm that it accurately reflects my professional standpoint, and I take full responsibility for the entire text and all its elements.