Posters for the SQ module

The Ringvorlesung is concluded with a poster session where we revisit the course. To this end the participants of the SQ module prepare posters where they revisit the topics covered in the past weeks.

All posters are based on the poster template of Leipzig University.

Posters are an early form of social media. Think carefully about the core message that you want to deliver, and keep the text as concise as possible. The NYU Libraries¹⁾ provide the following summary of criteria for a good poster:

• Important information should be readable from about three meters away
  • My way to check: do the proof-reading of your A0 paper on a printout on A4. The text is too small if you can not easily read it!
• Title is short and draws interest
• Word count of about 300 to 800 words
• Text is clear and to the point
• Use of bullets, numbering, and headlines make it easy to read
• Effective use of graphics, color and fonts
• Consistent and clean layout
• Includes acknowledgments, your name and institutional affiliation
  • Rather than institutional specify you mention your study program
  • Rather than acknowledgements our posters will briefly mention the session where you did the chair and the brainstorming.

I also recommend to consider the remarks about best practices and pitfalls of poster presentations by Joanne Lax,²⁾ a Graduate Technical Communications & Professional Development Specialist of Pudue University.

There are different types of scientific posters:

1. posters that will be presented: the authors are standing in front of the poster and deliver a message
   • the speaker delivers a story
   • the posters underpins and underlines the story by graphical key information
   • text is kept to a minimum
   • cf the remarks about How to present a research poster on SlideModel.com³⁾
2. posters that will be read: the poster is hanging in a public area, and every now and then somebody takes a look on her/his own
   • the core message is delivered in text, which must therefore be more detailed
   • the left column of the template of Leipzig University is an example what that might come down to
   • still: for the vast majority of cases the font is too small and the text is too long
3. posters that will be completed during a session: used to structure a meeting
   • used by the chair to introduce the purpose of the meeting
   • completed by the audience that is invited to come up with ideas, put them on paper, and attach it to the poster

In our poster session I will bring a poster on the 17 goals that we will complete during the session (type 3). The course participants will prepare and present posters where we they revisit one of our sessions.

• Subtitle under Logo: Ringvorlesung „Competences for Sustainable Development“
• Title: title of the talk covered in the session
• Names: of poster authors and their direction of study

• Session Speaker: blue field in the bottom left
• Presenter Details: info about chaired sessions and brainstorming in the red field in the bottom right
• References: red field in the bottom right

• main messages of the talk
• results of the discussion
• relation to the 17 SDGs
• poster presenter's ideas on the topic