The Student Poster Symposium was awarded the UiB Owl Award for quality in education in 2024.
The Student Poster Symposium is organized by the Faculty of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Department of Biological Sciences. The 13th edition (spring 2025) gathered 65 posters and approximately 210 students, teachers and staff in 11 courses from the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Physics and Technology and the Geophysical Institute.
During the symposium, presenters are given 1 minute in plenary sessions to address the audience and pitch their work. All printed posters are then displayed at the venue, giving presenters plenty of time to discuss and debate with teachers, students, staff and visitors. All participants give and get feedback from a broad audience via an electronic feedback form.
The website bioPITCH gathers all the posters that have been presented at the student poster symposium and makes them digitally available to all via web links and QR codes.
The symposium has been organized biannually by bioCEED and the Department of Biological Sciences since 2019, and is a collaboration between students, teachers, teaching assistants and administrative/technical staff. During the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020, fall 2020 and spring 2021), the symposium was moved online on Zoom for all course participants (staff, teachers and students) and streamed live on Youtube.
Students learn to design their poster as a part of the course they are enrolled in. Additionally they may find resources and useful tips at bioWRITE.
Learn more about the student poster session with the bioCEED toolkit.
UiB Learning lab has developed resources for teachers based on the student poster symposium:
- Student Poster Symposium as example of assessment
- Student Poster Symposium as example of work relevance in assessment
The student poster symposium was presented at the UiB learning conference 2023
Click on the image to open the PDF version of this poster.