Information for Students

At the Vienna International Motor Symposium a limited number of free places is available for domestic and foreign students of mechanical engineering.

For participation in the symposium, students have to meet certain criteria. Detailed information can be found in the application form, available as from December 10, 2018.

• Completed application form
• Evidence of enrolment in a mechanical engineering course at a university
• Credits obtained testifying to academic performance
• Curriculum vitae
• Recommendation letter by a professor specialized in the field
• Motivation letter explaining the reasons for your wish to participate in the Motor Symposium

Please send all of these documents by e-mail to info@oevk.at, After having examined your application we will inform you about the further steps you have to take.

If our assessment of your application is positive, you will be entitled to participate in the symposium. Accordingly, you will receive a complete set of the conference documents, have access to all technical lectures and the technical exhibition (please observe the dress code: business attire), furthermore, you will be invited to lunch and coffee breaks on both conference days as well as to evening events and have where applicable free bus transfer to Vienna-Schwechat airport at the end of the symposium. The deadline for applications is February 25^th, 2019.

You will be informed if your application has been successful by end-March 2019 at the latest.

All registered participants, lecturers, students and media representatives at the Vienna International Motor Symposium will be granted access to the “Participants Login“ on this website by pressing the button “participants login“ at the top of this website.
During the Symposium, conference documents (a list of participants, a list of exhibitors, a map of exhibition stalls on all levels, CVs of the lecturers and of the chairmen of the Sessions as well as all lectures in pdf format) will be available. In addition, logged-in participants have the option of downloading all lectures from previous Symposia which can be accessed via lecture search. 
The Austrian Society of Automotive Engineers (OEVK) will provide information on your access data to the participants login by e-mail a few days before the beginning of the conference.