• Luisa Baader (ZO Dresden)
• Lea Broschewitz (ZO Dresden)
• Martin Maag (ZO Dresden)
• Buist Mucaj (ZO Dresden)
• Matthias Pfeifer (ZO Dresden)
• Jasmin Noack (ZO Dresden)
• Raphaela Pilz (ZO Dresden)
• Roman Rattunde (ZO Dresden)
• Sophie Richter (ZO Dresden)
• Anja Hühnlein (IB Quedlinburg)

All of the above can be reached at ysm@julius-kuehn.de.

The best right at the start: There are no fees for the YSM seminar and the YSM conference.

We thank the JKI institutes that provide the financial resources for the seminar and we thank the Supporters and Friends (GFF) of the JKI, who sponsor the YSM conference!

For lunch we offer sandwiches ("belegte Brötchen"). During the coffee breaks there will always be cold and warm drinks as well as some cookies and different varieties of fruits.

Please note: Since costs for food and drinks during the seminar and conference are not covered, we ask you to pay 10 € for the seminar and 15 € for the conference at registration.

You do not need a business trip application for the business trip to YSM. The President of the JKI, Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon, has approved the business trip for all young researchers participating in the YSM.

If you will have a free overnight stay and plan to use an institutional car* for the trip, there will be no costs for you except for meals (15 € for the conference and 10 € for the seminar). However, you can be reimbursed for the daily allowance (“Tagegeld”) to which you are entitled (Please note: The costs for food and drinks cannot be reimbursed as conference fee!). But the reimbursement must be financed from your project funds! Please check in advance to see if any funds are earmarked or available for YSM in your project.

For the reimbursement of travel expenses (daily allowance), please submit an application for reimbursement of travel expenses on the travel portal of the BLE (https://reisekosten.ble.de/) after your return from the YSM and select the button "Reise noch nicht angelegt” (Travel not yet created). There you fill in all the required information and attach the confirmation of the availability of funds.

Breakfast will be included in the free overnight stays. Since the accommodation costs are sponsored by the GFF, you can enter 0.00 € in the hotel costs in the application.

A small addition to the use of institutional cars: Unlike other business trips that you make with an institutional car as part of your project, the costs for the trips to the YSM are financed centrally. Therefore, you do not incur any costs for the use of the institutional car for your project.

The maximum number of participants of the YSM seminar is 30 since the lecturer will work intensively with the seminar group and supervises many smaller subgroups. However, we will try to offer the seminar again online at a later date if the demand is very high. The number of participants for the conference is not limited, but the number of hotel beds is limited to 69.

See here the Guidelines for talks and posters

Once registered for the YSM conference you will receive a confirmation email by which you will be enabled to log in to the conference website and upload your abstract for your poster or for your talk. Abstract submission deadline is 20 September 2024.

Please note: It is not obligatory to give a talk or to present a poster in order to participate in the YSM conference.

Once the abstract is submitted, you will receive an email confirmation. Applying changes to your abstract will be possible by 20 September 2024.

If the number of abstracts for presentations submitted exceeds 30, the organising team will ask some of the participants which of the abstracts could instead be presented as posters.

The local organising Team of the YSM 2024 consists of young scientists at the JKI Dresden, namely Luisa Baader, Lea Broschewitz, Martin Maag, Buist Mucaj, Matthias Pfeifer, Jasmin Noack, Raphaela Pilz, Roman Rattunde and Sophie Richter. You can contact them via email:

ysm@  julius-kuehn.  de

By car

• via motorway A 17
  If coming from south or west, leave the motorway A 17 (Prague - Dresden) at the exit for "Pirna".
  Travel on to the B 172a towards Pirna, then on the S 177 towards Radeberg and then to Dresden-Pillnitz.
  It takes about 15 minutes, 12 km from the motorway.
• via motorway A 4
  If coming from the north (e.g. Berlin) or east (e.g. Görlitz), leave the motorway A 4 (Dresden - Görlitz) at the exit for "Hellerau".
  Travel through suburbs of Dresden, Albertstadt and Radeberger Vorstadt, and then along the northern banks of the river Elbe to Dresden-Pillnitz.
  It is about 15 km from the motorway.

By train

• Arriving at Dresden Main Station (Hauptbahnhof), take tram No. 10 towards Striesen and alight at bus stop Bergmannsstraße. Change to bus 63 towards Pillnitz and alight at bus stop Pillnitzer Platz.
• If you arrive at  Dresden Neustadt Station, take tram No. 6 towards Niedersedlitz and alight at Schillerplatz. Change to bus 63 towards Pillnitz and alight at Pillnitzer Platz.

The YSM is traditionally organized by PhD students and young post-docs of the JKI. Thus, it is inherent that the organising team changes from year to year. There is always advice available from the previous organisers so that the new team can build upon their experiences and on a collection of supporting material. If you are interested in being a part of next year’s organising team, do not hesitate to contact any member of this year’s team.