Organizer of the event:
Hungarian University of Sports Science
Address: 1123 Budapest, Alkotás utca 42-48.
Phone: +3662544849
The Section’s website address: https://tf.hu/tudomany/otdk
Section e-mail address: sportotdk37@tf.hu
Date of the event: 10–12 April 2025.
| Chair of the Organizing Committee: | Dr. habil Zsuzsanna Kneffel Habilitated Associate Professor, Institute TDK Referent Institute of Sport and Health Sciences Department of Health Sciences and Sports Medicine Phone: +36-1-487-9200/1515 E-mail: kneffel.zsuzsanna@tf.hu |
| Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee: | Bálint Dolnegó University Assistant Lecturer Institute of Economics and Social Sciences Department of Sport Management Phone: +36-70-6229398 E-mail: dolnego.balint@tf.hu |
| Secretary of the Organizing Committee: | Anita Sturm Head of Office Scientific Office Phone: +36-303582670 E-mail: sturm.anita@tf.hu |
| Chair of the Organizing Committee: | Prof. Dr. Zsolt Radák University Professor, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation Institute of Sport and Health Sciences Molecular Exercise Physiology Research Center Phone: +36-1-488-9200/1526 E-mail: radak.zsolt@tf.hu |
| Student delegate: | Gréta Dóka University Student E-mail: uikizd@neptun.tf.hu |
| Deputy student delegate: | Anna Maka University Student E-mail: makaanna10@gmail.com |
The National Association for Student Research (OTDT), the OTDT Physical Education and Sport Science Section Committee, and the organizing Hungarian University of Sports Science hereby announce the 37th National Student Research Conference’s Physical Education and Sport Science Section under the conditions specified in the following call.
The conditions for participation and registration in the Physical Education and Sport Science Section of the 37th OTDK are set out in the General Call of the 37th OTDK and in this Call of the OTDT Physical Education and Sport Science Section Committee.
In the 37th National Student Research Conference (OTDK), TDK papers and authors (in the case of multi-author TDK papers, all authors) may participate that meet the conditions specified in the General Call for the 37th National Student Research Conference. Details are provided in Supplement 2 of the General Call 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 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.
During the application process, students must indicate which session would be the most suitable for presenting their TDK paper.
The fundamental rules for the establishment of the final session assignment are included in the General Call of the 37th OTDK. The Physical Education and Sport Science 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 authors 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 five, that session may be merged with another session at the discretion of the Chair of the Section Committee. The organizing institution, with the agreement of the 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 Physical Education and Sport Science Section Committee. Students will be informed of this decision via the OTDT online system by 31 March 2025 at the latest.
4.1.1. Pre-registration of TDK papers
Following the student research conference:
Section selection and TDK paper upload within 30 days after receiving the email specified in point 4 of Supplement 2 of the General Call for the 37th OTDK.
ATTENTION! Uploading a TDK paper does not automatically constitute an entry to the OTDK, applications must be submitted during the registration period, following the steps described in the next section.
4.1.2. The application
Registration period: 15 November 2024 – 22 January 2024 (Wednesday), 16:00 (CET)
Students’ tasks during this period are:
A common expectation for handwritten or electronically signed documents:
a) A document authenticated using the identification-based document authentication service (Client Gateway AVDH, available at https://niszavdh.gov.hu/index) via the Client Gateway.
OR
b) a printed and hand-signed document may be accepted in scanned (PDF) format.
After the registration deadline for students (22 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 to the OTDT Office according to 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 does not wish to delegate a submitted TDK paper to the OTDK).
B) For TDK papers and authors registered in the Physical Education and Sport Science 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 handwritten or electronically signed documents:
a) A document authenticated using the identification-based document authentication service (Client Gateway AVDH, available at https://niszavdh.gov.hu/index) via the Client Gateway.
OR
b) a printed and hand-signed document may be accepted in scanned (PDF) format.
Deadline for institutional and faculty TDT Chairs to upload documents to the OTDT online system: 27 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; such applications will be rejected.
Applications submitted individually are invalid.
The registration fees for the 37th OTDK will be decided 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 national conference 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 student researchers and their supervisors!
Budapest, 9 April 2024.
| Dr. József Tihanyi | Dr. Habil. Zsuzsanna Kneffel |
| University Professor | Associate Professor |
| Chair of the OTDT Physical Education and Sport Science Section Committee | Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 37th OTDK Physical Education and Sport Science Section |
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Bálint Dolnegó |
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University Assistant Lecturer |
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Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 37th OTDK Physical Education and Sport Science Section |
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Note: If any interpretational issues arise between the Hungarian call and its English translation, the Hungarian version shall prevail.
In the Physical Education and Sport Science Section TDK papers can be submitted in Hungarian and English. Hungarian native speaker students can submit their application in Hungarian. Non-Hungarian native speaker students can submit their TDK paper and abstract only in Hungarian or English and must present their paper accordingly. Students from non-Hungarian-speaking cross-border higher education institutions can also submit their paper in English. When registering, non-Hungarian native speakers must inform the organizers of the Physical Education and Sports Science Section via an e-mail sent to the Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
All TDK papers submitted to the 37th OTDK are subject to a plagiarism check, which is evaluated by a three-member special committee set up by the Physical Education and Sport Science Section Committee, which reviews the results of the plagiarism check one by one. Please note that plagiarism in any form is not allowed, and that your own works may not be quoted without a reference (prohibition of self-plagiarism). Plagiarism is also committed by the applicant who uses artificial intelligence without or inadequately identifying its original source.
The original source must also be indicated if any figures are taken over. 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.
General requirements:
Time for uploading the TDK paper is within 30 days after the acceptance of the student research conference, as described in Supplement 2 of the General Call of the 37th OTDK.
Formal requirements:
Section-specific requirements:
Applications can be uploaded to the OTDT online system either with the name of the author(s) or anonymously.
It is not allowed to upload a supplementary document.
The referencing method should follow accepted scientific standards.
Additional section-specific rules for the TDK paper:
Papers must follow the following internal structuring: Introduction, Objective, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion (or Results and discussion), Summary, Bibliography, Acknowledgements (optional), Appendix (optional).
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.
The abstract must be uploaded to the OTDT online system: only the body text, other data (name(s) of the author(s), name of the institution, name of the supervisor(s), position, etc.) are generated by the OTDT online system.
After acceptance, each TDK paper will be evaluated in writing by two independent reviewers, according to a set of pre-defined criteria. In justified cases the Organizing Committee of the Physical Education and Sport Science Section may invite a third reviewer (e.g. if the scores of the two evaluations differ significantly, by at least 10 points). In this case, the average of the two closest scores out of the three scores is the result.
A maximum of 30 points will be awarded in the written evaluation, with a maximum of 5 points for each unit (introduction, aims and hypotheses, materials and methods, link between results and discussion, literature quoted, and coherence of the parts of the TDK paper). If the average score of the two written evaluations is less than 20% of the points available, the TDK paper cannot be presented at the 37th OTDK. If the written evaluation is not ready by the 10th day before the conference, the TDK paper cannot be excluded from the 37th OTDK for this reason.
The deadline for publishing the evaluation in the OTDT online system: 31 March 2025.
Publication of the evaluation: the full evaluation, without scores indicated, will be published by the organizers of the Physical Education and Sport Science Section in the OTDT online system.
If the TDK paper is the work of more than one author, the first author has to give the presentation at the conference. In the event of the first author being unable to attend, the lecturer is the next student in the order of authorship.
At the conference, participants will have 10 minutes to present their TDK paper (presentation), followed by a 5-minute discussion. The presentation will be evaluated by a Session Panel of recognized members of the field.
The maximum score for the presentation evaluation is 70 points, of which