European Union Contest for Young Scientists

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Winners 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia

The European Union (EU) Contest for Young Scientists is a science fair, initiated by the European Commission. It is a part of the , and is managed by the Directorate General for Research in the European Commission.

The EU Contest was set up to promote the ideals of cooperation and interchange between young scientists. It provides an annual showcase of the best of European student scientific achievement and such attracts widespread media interest. The EU Contest is hosted annually in a different European country. Every year a new local host organisation co-operates with the European Commission to organise the event.

The EU Contest was initiated in 1989 when European Commission president Jacques Delors took up the challenge from Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands of organising the Europe-wide student science fair. Philips has organised this annual event since 1968, but felt the time had come for the European Union to take on the organisation after 20 successful Philips Contests.

In addition to multiple days in the exhibit hall for judging, competitors travel to various science museums and attractions in the host city. Winners of the contest participate in a press conference after the awards ceremony.[1]

Venues for the EU Contest for Young Scientists[]

  • 1st: Brussels, Belgium 1989
    • First Prize Winners (6): (DK), (DE), Grace O'Connor/ (IE), (IT), (UK) and /Matthias Zimmermann/ (CH)
  • 2nd: Copenhagen, Denmark 1990
    • First Prize Winners (6): / (BE), (DE), (IE), (IT), // (UK) and (CH)
  • 3rd: Zürich, Switzerland 1991
    • First Prize Winners (7): (DE), / (IE), Paul Hoffmann (LU), (UK), / (AT), (NO) and (NO)
  • 4th: Seville, Spain 1992
    • First Prize Winners (6): // (DE), (DE), (DK), (DK), Jean Byrne/ (IE) and // (CH)
  • 5th: Berlin, Germany 1993
    • First Prize Winners (6): (DK), Lars Knudsen/Peter Andersen (DK), / (AT), Jan Kristian Haugland (NO), / (IE) and // (ES)
  • 6th: Luxembourg, Luxembourg 1994
    • First Prize Winners (6): Oliver Krüger (DE), (DE), (IE), (DK), (NO) and (CH)
  • 7th: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 1995
    • First Prize Winners (3): (DE), Brian Fitzpatrick/ (IE) and Christopher Mead/ (UK)
  • 8th: Helsinki, Finland 1996
    • First Prize Winners (3): (DE), (FR) and (NL)
  • 9th: Milan, Italy 1997
    • First Prize Winners (3): (DE), Fiona Fraser// (IE) and / (CH)
  • 10th: Porto, Portugal 1998
    • First Prize Winners (3): (HU), / (AT) and Robert Carney/Matthew Thomas (UK)
  • 11th: Thessaloniki, Greece 1999
  • 12th: Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2000
    • First Prize Winners (3): (PL), //Alex Wilkie (UK) and (GE)
  • 13th: Bergen, Norway 2001
    • First Prize Winners (3): / (AT), (DE) and (UK)
  • 14th: Vienna, Austria 2002
    • First Prize Winners (3): Pawel Piotrowski (DE), / (DE) and (FI)
  • 15th: Budapest, Hungary 2003
    • First Prize Winners (3): (DE), (DE) and Gábor Németh (HU)
  • 16th: Dublin, Ireland 2004
    • First Prize Winners (3): // (AT), (DK) and (DE)
  • 17th: Moscow, Russia 2005
    • First Prize Winners (3): / (DE), // (ES) and (CH)
    • Second Prize Winners: (CZ), Stephen Schulz (DE), Patrick Collison (IE)
  • 18th: Stockholm, Sweden 2006
    • First Prize Winners (3): Michael Kaiser/ (AT), / (DE) and (PL)
    • Second Prize Winners: Thomas Gigl (DE), Michal Marcinkowski (PL), /Csaba Vass (HU)
  • 19th: Valencia, Spain, 2007
  • 20th: Copenhagen, Denmark 2008
    • First Prize Winners (3): (PL), (SK) and (UK)
  • 21st: Paris, France 2009
  • 22nd: Lisbon, Portugal 2010
  • 23rd: Helsinki, Finland 2011
    • First Prize Winners (3): Alexander Amini (IE), Pius Markus Theiler (CH), Povilas Kavaliauskas (LT)
  • 24th: Bratislava, Slovakia 2012
    • First Prize Winners (3): Mark James Kelly / Eric Doyle (IR), Jakub Nagrodzki (PL), Philip Huprich / Manuel Scheipner / Daniel Zindl (AT)
  • 25th: Prague, Czech Republic 2013
    • First Prize Winners (3): Ciara Judge/Emer Hickey/Sophie Healy-Thow (IE), named three of "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014" by Time magazine in 2014,[2] Frederick Edward Turner (UK), Perttu Aku Anttoni Pölönen (FIN)[3]
  • 26th: Warsaw, Poland 2014
    • 2014 First Prizes Winners (3): João Pedro Estácio Gaspar Gonçalves de Araújo (POR), Mariana De Pinho Garcia / Matilde Gonçalves Moreira da Silva (POR) / Luboš Vozdecký (CZ)
  • 27th: Milan, Italy 2015[4]
    • First Prize Winners: Michał Bączyk and Paweł Piotr Czyż, Sanath Kumar Devalapurkar, Lukas Stockner
  • 28th: Brussels, Belgium 2016[5]
    • First Prize Winners: Ane Espeseth and Torstein Vik, Valerio Pagliarino,
    • Second Prize Winners: , Kayley Ting, Ivo Zell
    • Third Prize Winners: Diana Bura and Mari Louise Fufezan, Tomáš Heger, Yongchan Hong and Yunji Seo
  • 29th: Tallinn, Estonia 2017
    • First Prize Winners: (CZ), (CH), (CA)
    • Second Prize Winners: (CA), (PL), (UA)
    • Third Prize Winners: and and (DE), and (AT), (BG)
  • 30th: Dublin, Ireland 2018[6]
    • First Prize Winners: Adrian Fleck and Anna Fleck, Brendon Matusch, Nicolas Fedrigo
    • Second Prize Winners: Alexandru Liviu Bratosin and Petru Molla and Mihnea Vlad Bojian, Karl Hendrik Tamkivi, Francisco Miguel Araújo
    • Third Prize Winners: Marina Gudzhabidze and Dea Ilarionova and Shorena Gudzhabidze, Kyuhee Jo and Chaeyoung Lee, Sijia Zhang

References[]

  1. ^ "EUCYS 2018". eucys2018.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  2. ^ "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014". Time.
  3. ^ ČR, Akademie věd; Čr, Osw Okit Dit Ssč Av (2019-04-12). "EUCYS 2013". Winners. Archived from the original on 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  4. ^ information@eso.org. "Winners of the 2015 European Union Contest for Young Scientists Announced". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  5. ^ information@eso.org. "Winners of the 2016 European Union Contest for Young Scientists Announced". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  6. ^ Short, Eva (2018-09-18). "Autonomous vehicles, spinal fusion and starch scoop top EUCYS 2018 prizes". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 2018-11-14.

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