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Information:

Call of County competition 2027 - the rules are the same for our Faculty Conference in 2025

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The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen will also organize its TDK conference in 2025 on November 21, 2025, 9:00. Students of our Faculty studying full-time or part-time in BSc and MSc programs, in Hungarian or English, can participate in the conference. The condition for entry is a student scientific work (thesis, work) documenting student scientific activity, which was prepared during the training period, for self-education purposes, and was created during the training period, before the final exam.

How to enter:

Online registration: Continuously, open - 

in the registration menu, at the latest by the time the thesis is submitted!!!

TDK thesis: submission by 12:00 on November 10, 2025 in room 323.

The TDK thesis must be submitted in two printed and spiral-bound copies, as well as in electronic format (doc or docx file, written on a labeled CD or PEN DRIVE) by the specified deadline. The thesis and its cover must comply with the recommended format.

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 Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, the TDK paper and all its authors must meet the conditions set out in the General Call and its supplements.

For the 38th OTDK, students are eligible who at the time of the first round of the qualifying science/art field, faculty or institutional student research conference (hereinafter referred to as student research conference) following the registration period of the 37th OTDK and preceding the registration period of the 38th OTDK attended[1]

• an integrated master’s program,
• a BA/BSc,
• an MA/MSc,
• a BProf (Bachelor of Profession) or
• higher education vocational training,

and meet all the requirements of the General Call and the Section Call they are applying for. Further, high school students who meet the criteria set out in the General Call and its supplements are also eligible to apply for the 38th OTDK.

2.1. Content Requirements

• Applicants are invited to submit a TDK paper created during their training period for the purpose of self-study, documenting their academic/artistic activities in their undergraduate studies,
• containing the academic achievements of their undergraduate training,
• personally presented by the applicant(s) at the student research conference
• between spring 2025 and February 2027 at the latest in the semester of the final degree for BA/BSc/MA/MSc/integrated master’s [2]program students in Hungary; for students who have qualified in cross-border trainings at the student research conferences of the 37th National Student Research Conference (ETDK, EMTE and PKE conferences, FTDK, KTDK, VMTDK); for participants in higher education vocational programs, before the final exam,
• presented in person by the participant(s),
• and there its presentation was recommended by the Session Panel to apply for the 38th National Student Research Conference.

Only those TDK papers that and for which all the authors meet all the requirements set out in point 2 of this Supplement, shall be eligible for the 38th OTDK.

A thesis produced in the course of continuous TDK activity during BA/BSc education, can be entered to the 38th 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 by the OTDK.

Term papers or essays that are compulsory in the course of university or college studies, seminar papers that are required by the curriculum, theses that at the time of the student research conference have already been defended by students in integrated master’s and MA/MSc programs, and scientific works prepared and/or presented by students in doctoral programs after they have completed their university studies are not allowed to be submitted to the National Student Research Conference, as they do not fall within the scope of higher education self-study.

Furthermore:

1. students who already hold a previously obtained PhD/DLA degree at the time of the student research conference are not eligible for the 38th OTDK;
2. the participation of students who, at the time of the student research conference, are enrolled in one of the program types listed in point 2 but already hold a diploma obtained in one of these programs (with the exception of participation in a master’s program following the first BA/BSc degree, which cannot be excluded) may be regulated by the disciplinary sections in their own calls;
3. students who have already obtained a Master’s/integrated master’s degree and who are also in doctoral studies at the time of the student research conference, are not allowed to participate in the 38th OTDK with a TDK paper on the same topic as their doctoral research. These students must declare the topic of their doctoral research when they enter their paper for the 38th OTDK.

The content of the TDK paper submitted to the 38th OTDK must be identical to the paper with which the author(s) of the paper has (have) qualified for participation in the OTDK at student research conference. (Changes required by the formal requirements set out in the section calls shall not be considered as substantive modifications.)

The OTDT Board issues general guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), available on the following page: https://otdk.hu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/OTDT-Elnokseg-MI-hasznalat-IRANYMUTATAS_EN.pdf; further specific guidance on the use of AI may be provided in the calls of the individual scientific field sections. When submitting a TDK paper to the 38th OTDK, participants must make a declaration on the use of AI in the OTDT online system. OTDT also reminds students who wish to apply that the TDK papers will be checked by plagiarism detection software. Applications that are proven to infringe copyright will be excluded from the 38th OTDK by the OTDT, with simultaneous notification to the nominating institution.

A paper can be entered for the OTDK only once and in one section. If a participant submits more than one paper, they must declare at the time of application that there is no substantive and significant overlap between the TDK papers; the section committees and the organizing committees will also examine any overlap between the submitted TDK papers when verifying the applications. The section committee may decide that the extent of overlap is not permissible; in this case, the participant must choose which TDK paper to present, and the other applications will be deleted. If a section concerned does not require a TDK paper, the decision must be based on whether substantive and significant overlap can be excluded on the basis of the abstracts. If the participant fails to make the statement at the time of application, all of their papers will be disqualified.

TDK papers with restricted access are not eligible for the 38th OTDK!

Attention is drawn to the OTDT Code of Ethics, which sets out the ethical principles of the TDKs and the OTDK and the ethical procedures to be followed by participants engaged in scientific and artistic student research, by professors and researchers undertaking tasks, as well as by the various bodies of the OTDT at different levels. The current Code of Ethics is available on the OTDT website.

 Information and formal requirements 
1. Language of the thesis and presentation: 
Theses may be written in Hungarian or English, but presentations must be given in Hungarian. Students who are not native Hungarian speakers but are eligible to participate in the conference may submit their entries in English and present their papers in English. 
2. Content requirements for entries: 
All entries submitted to the TDK will be checked for plagiarism. A three-member special committee will be set up to evaluate the entries, and each member will review the results of the plagiarism check. We would like to draw the attention of participating students to the fact that plagiarism is not permitted in any form, and that even the author's own works cannot be quoted without reference (prohibition of self-plagiarism). 
Additional content requirements: 
The submitted project must be the independent work of the author(s). The work must present the most important literature on the topic and justify the importance and interest of the topic. The purpose and method of the research must be presented. The paper must include the results obtained by the authors and how they were evaluated. The authors should compare their results and findings with those found in the literature. It must be clear what constitutes their own work/analysis. 

3. Formal requirements for the thesis: 
Generally recommended format: 
Font: Times New Roman 
Font size: 12 
Line spacing: 1.5 
Margins: 2.5 
Minimum number of pages: 20 
Maximum number of pages: 60 
4. Rules for evaluating the thesis: 
There will be 3 reviewers (jury members) in each section, and each reviewer will evaluate all theses in their section.

The reviewers will rank the theses from 1 to n, where n is the number of theses in the section.
Evaluation criteria for the written part: 
• editing of the paper, 
• processing of the literature on the topic 
• quality of the elaboration of the topic 
• evaluation of the results 
• modernity, importance 
• overall impression, maturity, consistency 

Papers must be presented at the conference in the form of a 10-minute free presentation, followed by a 5-minute discussion.
Presentation evaluation criteria:
• presentation of results, the presenter's subject knowledge
• presentation style, time management
• use and application of visual aids
• willingness to engage in discussion 

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