A Best Student Paper Award will be attributed to a student author, for writing a remarkable paper and making an outstanding presentation at ECOC 2017
TO COMPETE FOR THE BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD:

• The principal author should be a student at the time of submission of his/her paper.
• The student should apply by ticking the appropriate box, in the on-line paper submission form.
• The student should be registered to the conference. No financial help will be provided for conference registration, transportation and accommodation by the conference organizers.
• The student author should be the presenter of his/her work at the conference.

Eight finalists will be preselected by the eight sub-committees in their respective areas during the paper review meeting in June. The finalists will be immediately notified that they have been short-listed, and will be asked to deliver a second presentation for the jury at the conference, in addition to their scheduled presentation in the conference programme. The jury will consists of the Conference General Chairs, the Technical Programme Committee Co-Chairs and a representative of the sponsor, ADVA. The representative of the sponsor will have no voting rights.

The winner will receive a check of 2 000€ and two runners-ups will receive 1 000€.
The jury will announce their decisions during the closing ceremony of ECOC 2017.