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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The Sociedad Española para la Investigación y desarrollo en Robótica (SEIDROB) and the Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica (SPR) award a prize for the best Iberian PhD
Thesis in the field of Robotics for students who have defended their PhD in the years 2017, 2018, and 2019.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The prize is endowed with
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:700">900 euros</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400"> for the winner; winner and finalist will also
receive an accrediting diploma.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The following criteria will be taken into account in the evaluation:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">- The innovation of the contributions presented in the Thesis, as well as the experimental validation of the results.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">- The number and quality of the (accepted) publications that have emerged from the PhD that have as authors both the student and supervisor.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The jury will be composed by an equal number of Spanish and Portuguese experts.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Students can submit their application by completing the form accessible at the URL</span></p>
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<a href="https://bit.ly/2WqoAiV"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">https://bit.ly/2WqoAiV</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">attaching the PhD in PDF format and the graduation certificate.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; text-decoration:underline">NOTE</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700">For Spanish participants</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400">The participant must be a SEIDROB student member for the year 2019. The advisor must be an individual SEIDROB member or, alternatively, his/her
institution must be an institutional partner. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400">To become a SEIDROB member, please follow the instructions at the web page
</span><a href="https://seidrob.es/en/inscripcion/"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">https://seidrob.es/en/inscripcion/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700">For Portuguese participants</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400">The participant or his/her advisor must be a SPR member for the year 2019. To become SPR member, please follow the instructions at the web
page </span><a href="http://www.sprobotica.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=72"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline">http://www.sprobotica.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=72</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Droid Serif',serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The deadline for submission is July 31, 2019.</span></p>
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