PrešerenPrize

By awarding prizes to students for their best work, the University of Ljubljana promotes the quality of students' scientific, research and artistic activities. The prizes are awarded to students for independent works produced during their studies up to the completion of the second Bologna cycle or a single master's degree. Each student may receive only one prize, regardless of whether the work is individual or group.

Student work submitted in the prescribed manner and format, which goes significantly beyond the regular study requirements and was completed between 1 September of the previous academic year and 31 August of the current academic year, is eligible for the prize.

Students submit their work for the prize to a member university by 10 September each year. The mentor of the thesis may be a full or associate professor or assistant professor, or have a corresponding academic title at the university. In the case of interdisciplinary programmes, the member of the university from which the mentor comes, or the co-mentor if the mentor comes from another university, should propose the thesis.

The criteria for evaluating submitted research papers are:

• clarity in defining the research problem and formulating hypotheses,
• scientific excellence or applicability,
• the width and depth of the theoretical conception of the work and the methodological correctness of its execution,
• knowledge of the national and international literature and consistency in citing it,
• analytical thoroughness,
• independence, incisiveness, originality, creativity and visibilty of the work (publication in scientific or professional literature),
• text formatting and linguistic culture.

The importance and weight of each criterion can be reasonably adapted by the evaluators to the specific features of the work being evaluated.

The work must be written in professionally correct Slovene. They may be written in a foreign language if the student is enrolled in a study programme that is partly or entirely conducted in a foreign language, or if the tutor/mentor is a foreigner. In this case, the work must be accompanied by a comprehensive summary in professionally correct Slovene. The comprehensive abstract should be 5-10 standard pages in order to summarise the work correctly and with sufficient precision. The title of the work must also appear on the first page of the work in Slovene.

The works must be submitted to the jury in one printed copy and in an electronic copy identical to the printed copy.

The works must be bound in A4 size, with text on the title page (University of Ljubljana, title of the work, author's name and surname, place and year); the following page is identical to this page, but with text under the author's name and surname:

"This work has been prepared in accordance with the Rules governing the Prešeren Prize for Students, under the supervision of ................" After the inner page, there must be a summary of the content of the work in Slovene and English (each on one page maximum), followed by an index.

Applications proposing human or animal experimentation must be examined by the competent committees, which will judge from a moral, ethical and legal point of view whether the research is necessary or not and whether it is in accordance with the provisions and principles of the Declaration of Helsinki/Tokyo and with other instruments adopted by international organisations and the University on these issues.

If the works are not submitted in the required format, the Technical Service will remind the members to send them in the required format within five days. By decision of the Jury, works not submitted in the required format will be rejected.