• interested in feedback on your research plans and research;
• unable to sufficiently exchange ideas, experiences, frustrations, hopes, … with peers;
• planning to improve your scientific communication and presentation skills;
• hoping to meet in real life authors whom you only know by their publications;
• needing to acquire paper reviewing expertise;
  
• eager to widen your horizon of professional interests;
• and looking for some fun moments during work.
  

You should submit to this year’s OTM Academy. It offers you

• a means to publish your paper in the well known Springer LNCS series;
• dedicated feedback and exclusive time of prominent professors, experienced researchers and experts in your field of research during the OTM Academy;
• targeted suggestions how to improve your scientific writing and presentation skills by appropriate experts of the OTM Academy;
• a collaborative paper peer reviewing exercise under the guidance of the OTMA faculty;
• an international forum to present your research in a poster session in one of the OTM conferences;
• access to all OTM conferences and workshops at a highly reduced registration fee;
• a dedicated OTMA LinkedIn group as an international network building platform;
• a friendly and fun atmosphere (several OTM social events) to meet other Ph.D. students and researchers in a nice and sunny place close to the beach and ancient cultural heritage sites (Hersonissou, Crete, Greece).

What to do ?

• coordinate your submission plans with your principal doctoral advisor 
• take a look at the OTM Academy call for papers page or download the call for papers
• check if the topics match your research
• write your paper according to the instructions
• follow the instructions to upload your abstract and paper 
• respect formatting instructions: use the Springer style for camera-ready workshop papers
• provide some extra administrative information                       see Submission
• upload a camera ready version and register                           see Proceedings
• respect the extended deadlines and specific instructions    see Dates
• prepare your presentation and bring along your poster        see Program
• meet and greet, listen and learn, ... and enjoy                        see you at OTM Academy !
• and maybe bring along your advisors and friends to the OTM Conferences

Also other (Ph.D.) students without an accepted submission to the OTM Academy are encouraged to register as participants as it proves to be fruitful for them to observe and interact with presenting authors like you, and expand the pool of ideas to be discussed.