Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) celebrates the research conducted by PhDs around the world. The competition was developed by The University of Queensland and aims to help students to develop their academic, presentation, and research communication skills. Competitors must present their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. They are allowed one PowerPoint slide, but no other resources or props.

This year, the University of Tübingen will participate in the 3MT® competition held by the Matariki network for its member institutions. For this, we will hold our own 3MT® video competition to determine, who our two contributors to the Matariki 3MT® video competition will be. 

We are looking for PhD students who would like to participate both in our University of Tübingen 3MT® competition and - should they be voted the top 2 videos in a University-wide vote - also submit their video to the Matariki 3MT® competition.

In order to prepare our participants for our internal competition as well as the Matariki 3MT® competition (should they be voted top 2), we offer a prep workshop. You can sign up for the workshop below.

Please note: In order to participate in the Univesity of Tübingen 3MT® competition you need to take part in the preparatory workshop at least once. Participants who have already taken part in the Univesity of Tübingen 3MT® competition may submit a new video in a following year. The new video needs to present new findings and a development in the presentation needs to be clear. We reserve the right to ask for further revisions should the video be too close to the previous submission by the same participant.

Schedule for the 2024 3MT® competition:

• July 11th: preparatory workshop takes place (mandatory for participation in the competition)
• August 30th: Submission deadline for University of Tübingen 3MT®
• Early September: University-wide vote on videos
• End of September: Submission deadline for Matariki 3MT®  

The Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) is an international group of seven leading universities; each amongst the first-established in its own country. MNU member institutions promote excellence in research-led education and conduct transformative research across a broad subject base. They promote a combination of academic learning and personal growth through extracurricular activities in diverse scholarly communities, to develop well-rounded citizens of the world and leaders of the future. You can read more about the network here.

The network has held a 3MT® competition for several years now. Tübingen has won the competition in 2021. You can read our winner's statement below and watch the 2021 videos here.