European Union Contest for Young Scientists
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The European Union Contest for Young Scientists is a science fair
, initiated by the European Commission
. It is a part of the European Union Framework Programmes on Research, 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.
Science fair
A science fair is generally a competition where contestants present their science project results in the form of a report, display board, and models that they have created. Science fairs allow students in grade schools and high schools to compete in science and/or technology activities...
, initiated by the European Commission
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
. It is a part of the European Union Framework Programmes on Research, 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
Jacques Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office .-French Politics:...
took up the challenge from Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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.
Venues for the EU Contest for Young Scientists
- 1st: BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Belgium 1989- First Prize Winners (6): Mogens Markussen (DK), Stephan Schlitter (DE), Grace O'Connor/Sinead Finn (IE), Lina Tomasella (IT), Nicola Kirk (UK) and Jean-Pierre Wyss/Matthias ZimmermannMatthias ZimmermannMatthias 'Zimbo' Zimmermann is a retired German football player. He played for 2 seasons in the Bundesliga with SpVgg Unterhaching.-External links:...
/Elmar Artho (CH)
- First Prize Winners (6): Mogens Markussen (DK), Stephan Schlitter (DE), Grace O'Connor/Sinead Finn (IE), Lina Tomasella (IT), Nicola Kirk (UK) and Jean-Pierre Wyss/Matthias Zimmermann
- 2nd: CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark 1990- First Prize Winners (6): Paul Vauterin/Bruno Callens (BE), Waltraud Schulze (DE), Annagh Minchin (IE), Donatella Manganelli (IT), Brian Dolan/Lee Kiera/Ann Marie Malon (UK) and Marco Ziegler (CH)
- 3rd: ZürichZürichZurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Switzerland 1991- First Prize Winners (7): Robert Nitzschmann (DE), Barry O'Doherty/Daniel Dundas (IE), Paul HoffmannPaul HoffmannPaul Jacob Christopher Hoffmann born 14 January 1970, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, is an Australian cricketer who has played for the cricket teams of Scotland...
(LU), Angus Filshie (UK), Christian Tost/Sabine Zang (AT), Torkild Jensen (NO) and Hans Jacob Feder (NO)
- First Prize Winners (7): Robert Nitzschmann (DE), Barry O'Doherty/Daniel Dundas (IE), Paul Hoffmann
- 4th: SevilleSevilleSeville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
, Spain 1992- First Prize Winners (6): Hendrik Küpper/Frithjof Küpper/Martin Spiller (DE), Oliver Trapp (DE), Anders T. Skov (DK), Martin Hesselsoe (DK), Jean Byrne/Elizabeth Dowling (IE) and Dominik Zeiter/Ewald Amherd/Reinhard Fubber (CH)
- 5th: BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany 1993- First Prize Winners (6): Heinrik Mouritsen (DK), Lars KnudsenLars KnudsenLars Ramkilde Knudsen is a Danish researcher in cryptography, particularly interested in the design and analysis of block ciphers, hash functions and message authentication codes .-Academic:...
/Peter AndersenPeter AndersenPeter Villemoes Andersen was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Danish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.-References:...
(DK), Albert Barmettler/Guenther Ederer (AT), Jan Kristian Haugland (NO), Rodger Toner/Donal Keane (IE) and Maria Salvany Gonzalez/Antoni Camprubi I Cano/Fidel Costa Rodriguez (ES)
- First Prize Winners (6): Heinrik Mouritsen (DK), Lars Knudsen
- 6th: LuxembourgLuxembourgLuxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
, Luxembourg 1994- First Prize Winners (6): Oliver Krüger (DE), Eike Lau (DE), Jane Feehan (IE), Christian Krause (DK), Henrik Strøm (NO) and Samuel Schaer (CH)
- 7th: Newcastle upon TyneNewcastle upon TyneNewcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...
, United Kingdom 1995- First Prize Winners (3): Sven Siegle (DE), Brian FitzpatrickBrian FitzpatrickBrian Fitzpatrick may refer to:*Brian T. Fitzpatrick, American academic and lawyer, Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University Law School*Brian Fitzpatrick *Brian Fitzpatrick...
/Shane Markey (IE) and Christopher Mead/Matthew Taylor (UK)
- First Prize Winners (3): Sven Siegle (DE), Brian Fitzpatrick
- 8th: HelsinkiHelsinkiHelsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, Finland 1996- First Prize Winners (3): Tobias Kippenberg (DE), Yann Ollivier (FR) and Wouter Couzijn (NL)
- 9th: MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Italy 1997- First Prize Winners (3): Eike Hübner (DE), Fiona Fraser/Ciara McGoldrick/Emma McQuillan (IE) and Christoph Lippuner/Antoine Wüthrich (CH)
- 10th: PortoPortoPorto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
, Portugal 1998- First Prize Winners (3): Gabor Bernath (HU), Paul Pak/Peter Weilenmann (AT) and Robert CarneyRobert CarneyRobert Bostwick Carney was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as commander-in-chief of the NATO forces in Southern Europe and then as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower administration.-Early years:Born in Vallejo, California, Carney graduated from the Naval Academy in...
/Matthew ThomasMatthew ThomasMatt Thomas is a former member of New Zealand rock band The Feelers.Thomas started play the violin at school in Standard 2 , the piano in Standard 3 , and bass guitar in Form 2 . At high school he won national awards for jazz, classical and public speaking.Thomas was the founding member of The...
(UK)
- First Prize Winners (3): Gabor Bernath (HU), Paul Pak/Peter Weilenmann (AT) and Robert Carney
- 11th: ThessalonikiThessalonikiThessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
, Greece 1999- First Prize Winners (3): Sarah FlannerySarah FlannerySarah Flannery was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Technologies during a brief internship there...
(IE), Sverrir Gudmumdsson/Pall Melsted/Tryggvi Thorgeirsson (IS) and Michał Książkiewicz (PL)
- First Prize Winners (3): Sarah Flannery
- 12th: AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, The Netherlands 2000- First Prize Winners (3): Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki (PL), Joanne Daniel/Gemma "Legend" Dawson/Ally Wilkie (UK) and Nickoloz Tchankoshvili (GE)
- 13th: Bergen, Norway 2001
- First Prize Winners (3): Thomas Aumeyr/Thomas Morocutti (AT), Sebastian Abel (DE) and James Lee Mitchell (UK)
- 14th: ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Austria 2002- First Prize Winners (3): Pawel Piotrowski (DE), Martin Etzrodt/Martin von der Helm (DE) and Lauri Kauppila (FI)
- 15th: BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, Hungary 2003- First Prize Winners (3): Jana Ivanidze (DE), Uwe Treske (DE) and Gábor NémethGábor NémethGábor Németh is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Vasas SC.-Szombathelyi Haladás:Ha made his debut of the 4th September 1996 against BVSC Budapest in a match that ended 2–1.-Vasas SC:...
(HU)
- First Prize Winners (3): Jana Ivanidze (DE), Uwe Treske (DE) and Gábor Németh
- 16th: Dublin, Ireland 2004
- First Prize Winners (3): Gerhard Schoeny/Martin Knoebel/Floreian Groessbacher (AT), Charlotte Strandkvist (DK) and Mario Chemnitz (DE)
- 17th: MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Russia 2005- First Prize Winners (3): Igor Gotlibovitch/Renate Landig (DE), Javier Lopez Martinez-Fortun/Eliecer Perez Robaina/Carlos Machado Carvajal (ES) and Silvana Konermann (CH)
- 18th: StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden 2006- First Prize Winners (3): Michael KaiserMichael KaiserMichael M. Kaiser is president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.Dubbed "the turnaround king" for his work at such arts institutions as the Kansas City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Opera House, Kaiser has...
/Johannes KIENL (AT), Alexander Joos/Johannes Burkart (DE) and Tomasz Wdowik (PL)
- First Prize Winners (3): Michael Kaiser
- 19th: Valencia, Spain, 2007
- First Prize Winners (3): Florian Ostermaier/Henrike Wilms (DE), Márton Spohn (HU) and Abdusalam AbubakarAbdusalam AbubakarAbdusalam Abubakar is a Somali-born Irish scientist from County Dublin. He was the winner of the 43rd Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2007 at the age of seventeen. He went on to be named EU Young Scientist of the Year in September 2007....
(IE)
- First Prize Winners (3): Florian Ostermaier/Henrike Wilms (DE), Márton Spohn (HU) and Abdusalam Abubakar
- 20th: CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark 2008- First Prize Winners (3): Magdalena Bojarska (PL), Martin Tkáč (SK) and Elisabeth MullerElisabeth Müller-Selected filmography:* Morgengrauen * André und Ursula * The Power and the Prize * Ballerina * Doctor Crippen lives * The Angry Hills...
(UK)
- First Prize Winners (3): Magdalena Bojarska (PL), Martin Tkáč (SK) and Elisabeth Muller
- 21st: ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France 2009- First Prize Winners (3): Aleksander Kubica/Wiktor Pilewski (PL), Fabian Gafner (CH), Liam Mc Carthy/John D. O'Callaghan (IE)
- 22nd: LisbonLisbonLisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Portugal 2010- First Prize Winners (3): Miroslav Rapčák/David Pěgřímek (CZ), Łukasz Sokołowski (PL), Dávid Horváth/Márton Balass (HU)
External links
- Official EU Contest website at the European Commission
- 13th EU Contest, Bergen website
- 14th EU Contest, Vienna website
- 15th EU Contest, Budapest website
- 16th EU Contest, Dublin website
- 17th EU Contest, Moscow website
- 18th EU Contest, Stockholm website
- 19th EU Contest, Valencia website
- 20th EU Contest, Copenhagen website
- 21st EU Contest, Paris website
- 22nd EU Contest, Lisbon website