Launch of the INTE Contest for Best Predoctoral Research Videos 2026

INTE CONTEST FOR BEST PREDOCTORAL

RESEARCH VIDEO

(ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-2026)

1. INTRODUCTION

The Institute of Energy Technologies of Technical University of Catalonia (INTE-UPC) announces with the present call a contest for the best videos awards presented by PhD and Master degrees’ students. This contest is a part of the INTE strategic line to promote the dissemination of the scientific activities carried out within its research groups.

2. AIM OF THE CONTEST

The aim of this contest is to promote scientific divulgation activities, through creative methods, of young pre-doctoral researchers which have been carrying out their works within one of the four INTE-UPC research groups during the academic year 2025-2026.

3. AWARDS

The evaluation panel, determined in Section 9 of the present rules, after examination of the submitted videos and ranking them according to the criteria established by the present document (Section 8) will select two winners within the following categories:

1. Final Master Degrees Project;
2. PhD project (any phase).

The award will consist of gross amount of:

• 400 € for Final Master Degrees Project, that will be deposited directly to the winner bank account.
• 700 € for PhD project, that will be deposited directly to the winner bank account.

4. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR CONTEST APPLICANTS:

Applicants must meet one of the following conditions:

• Be currently enrolled in a UPC PhD programs or have defended their PhD thesis during the 2025–2026 academic year. In both cases, the PhD project must be carried out within one of the five INTE-UPC research groups.
• Have defended their Final Master’s Project during the years 2025 or 2026. The project must have been conducted under the supervision of a faculty member (PDI) from one of the INTE-UPC research groups.
• Not be one of the winners of the previous INTE contest for best predoctoral research video of the year 2025.

Note: The applicant's supervisor must be clearly indicated in the application.

5. CONTEST PROCESS

1. Each applicant has to submit a short video with the presentation of her/his research project. The duration of the video must not exceed 3 minutes and it can be done with any technique. The submission deadline is at 23:59 of June 10^th
2. The submitted video must be original and prepared specifically for this contest. (Videos presented at the INTE contests for best predoctoral research video of the previous years are not admitted).
3. The language of the video must be Catalan, Spanish or English.
4. The best 3 videos, for each one of the two categories defined in Section 3, will be selected by the evaluation panel and will be presented at the INTE Research Day 2025 on June 19^th, 2026. The two winners will be announced on the same day.

Note: The videos submitted to this contest may also be used for dissemination in social networks in which the INTE participates.

6. APPLICATIONS

Applications must be submitted via electronic mail to the address comms.inte@upc.edu with the subject: "INTE 2026 research video contest_NAME_SURNAME_PhD(or _TFM)". The application must include the name of the applicant and the INTE research group she/he belongs to, her/his supervisor(s) and a declaration in which the applicant allows the INTE-UPC to use the video for divulgation and dissemination activities (INTE web page, INTE social networks accounts, etc.).

7. DOCUMENTATION

The application must be accompanied with the following documentation: 

• Authorization of the candidate for the use of her/his personal data for the goals of the contest.

• Authorization of the candidate for the use of her/his video by the INTE Commission of Training and Communication (CFiC) for dissemination tasks.
• A video of maximal duration of 3 minutes in a format compatible with standard multimedia players.

8. RANKING CRITERIA

The evaluation panel will select in each award category a maximum of 3 videos from the all presented videos, to be projected at the INTE Research Day. The videos presented to this contest will be evaluated and ordered according to the following criteria: 

• Adequacy of the video to the aim of the call (0-2.5 points).
• Importance of the research results for the group and INTE research lines goals (0-2.5 points).
• Technical and artistic quality of the video (0-2.5 points).
• Strategic opportunity, impact and other values transmitted by the author (0-2.5 points).

9. EVALUATION PANEL

The evaluation panel will be formed by the following four members of the INTE CFiC:

• Claudia Grossi (Head of the CFiC and member of the IONHE group),
• Pere Bruna Escuer (INTE secretary and member of the GCM group);
• Youri Koubychine Merkulov (member of the NEMEN group),
• Guillem Cortés Rossell (member of the ANT group).

In the event that one of the aforementioned members cannot participate, a member of the missing research group who is not an applicant in this call will be incorporated in the panel at random basis.

Barcelona,

June 1^st, 2026

 Members of the CFiC of INTE

 You can address your question and/or doubt to: comms.inte@upc.edu