Three-Minute Thesis Competition

The call for interest in now open! Click here to register.

Deadline: 18 December 2025.

The competition will be held on 5 March at 4.30 PM.

The Three-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) is an academic competition challenging PhD students to present their research in under three minutes to a general audience, in English.

The 3MT celebrates research discoveries and encourages you to share the significance of your PhD project with a broader community in an engaging, audience-friendly way.

Eligibility: PhD students in their final year are eligible if they will not defend their thesis before June 2025. Participants must still be enrolled as PhD students as of March 2025.

This year, the University of Bologna will also host the competition’s final round in June 2025, as part of the Coimbra Group Annual Conference!

1st Round

The competition will take place on 5 March 2025.

A jury, supported by audience votes, will select the top three presentations from 10 finalists. A winner will be chosen from these three, who will have the chance to advance to the second round.

2nd Round

The video of the winning presentation will be submitted to an independent Coimbra Group jury, which will select three finalists from among the winners at each participating university in the international Coimbra Group Three-Minute-Thesis Competition.

The selected finalists will compete in the final round on 12 June 2025, hosted at the University of Bologna.

For more information on the 2025 Coimbra Group 3MT Competition, click here.