Save the date!

Dear everyone,

Please save the date for the 32nd Spring Symposium of the LUOVA Doctoral Programme, which will be held March 6th – 8th 2023. 

With its roots in 1990, and officially named in 1992, the Spring Symposium is a University of Helsinki tradition; a high-profile seminar for PhD and Master’s students to present their work, with peers and external evaluators giving valuable feedback on both the scientific content and presentational skills of the speaker.

This will be a hybrid event, with in-person talks being streamed online for those otherwise unable to attend. We’d like to invite all doctoral students in life sciences to give a talk at the symposium, and master’s students to present their project as a poster.  Three international keynote speakers (TBA) will also be helping to provide feedback on student presentations and will be our judges for Olli’s prize (best talk) and best poster awards. We also invite interested undergraduates to attend the presentations, or even present a poster of their own.

Registration for talks and posters will open in January.

The Grande Finale event (Wed. 8th of March) will be held physically this year, with a dinner, award ceremony, and the post-symposium party at the LUOMUS Natural History Museum. 

Logo competition

 

We are happy to annouce that the logo designer, and winner of the logo competition this year, is Zowi Oudendijk! Many thanks to Zowi for this really great design, which you will see featured on most of the spring symposium’s materials.

And we are grateful for the contributions of the other seven participants, it’s really hard to make decision from so many great designs. Thanks again!

Logo competition is coming!

NASA, Coca Cola, Iittala… Where would they be without their logos? Probably still in space and stuff. But as an equally successful organisation, the 32nd LUOVA Spring Symposium is in need of its next top logo designer. And it could be you! Stretch those moose drawing muscles for a chance at honour and glory (and a small prize).

 

Is the moose your muse? Do you believe a moose’s majesty can only be portrayed in logo form? You’re in good company at the 32nd LUOVA Spring symposium!

 

Please keep reading. 

 

The annual LUOVA Spring Symposium is back again for Spring 2023,  and we are looking for the new logo! In the 32nd LUOVA Spring Symposium Logo Competition, you can submit your suggestion for a logo design for the symposium event: 

 

You are free to design the logo however you want. But here are 3 mandatory rules to follow:

  • Contain a visual reference to a moose (Alces alces, the symbol animal of the Spring Symposium), 

  • Display the symposium title “Spring symposium” and the number “32nd”

  • Be submitted as a .PNG and be a minimum of 4000×4000 pixels. Use a transparent background if that’s appropriate. Can alternatively be submitted in vector format as a .svg or .pdf

 

Submit your logo using this form (requires a google account) by the 9th of November.

Feel free to draw some inspiration from the great designs of previous years:

In order, by: Meri Lähteenaro, the 2016 LUOVA Spring Symposium Committee and Roni Kantola. 

The LUOVA 32nd Spring Symposium committee.

Deryk Tolman – Joséphine Couet – Nora Bergman – Thomas Merrien & Yuhan He.

 

The Spring Symposium is organized by doctoral students from the Doctoral Programme in Wildlife Biology Research (Finnish acronym LUOVA) of the University of Helsinki. The symposium brings together students active in research fields related to ecology, evolution, systematics and nature conservation.