European Union Contest for Young Scientists

The European Union (EU) 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.

Venues for the EU Contest for Young Scientists

*1st: Brussels, 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 Zimmermann/Elmar Artho (CH)
*2nd: Copenhagen, 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: Zürich, Switzerland 1991
** First Prize Winners (7): Robert Nitzschmann (DE), Barry O'Doherty/Daniel Dundas (IE), Paul Hoffmann (LU), Angus Filshie (UK), Christian Tost/Sabine Zang (AT), Torkild Jensen (NO) and Hans Jacob Feder (NO)
*4th: Seville, 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: Berlin, Germany 1993
** First Prize Winners (6): Heinrik Mouritsen (DK), Lars Knudsen/Peter Andersen (DK), Albert Barmettler/Guenther Ederer (AT), Jan Haugland (NO), Rodger Toner/Donal Keane (IE) and Maria Salvany Gonzalez/Antoni Camprubi I Cano/Fidel Costa Rodriguez (ES)
*6th: Luxembourg, 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 Tyne, United Kingdom 1995
** First Prize Winners (3): Sven Siegle (DE), Brian Fitzpatrick/Shane Markey (IE) and Christopher Mead/Matthew Taylor (UK)
*8th: Helsinki, Finland 1996
** First Prize Winners (3): Tobias Kippenberg (DE), Yann Ollivier (FR) and Wouter Couzijn (NL)
*9th: Milan, Italy 1997
** First Prize Winners (3): Eike Hübner (DE), Fiona Fraser/Ciara McGoldrick/Emma McQuillan (IE) and Christoph Lippuner/Antoine Wüthrich (CH)
*10th: Porto, Portugal 1998
** First Prize Winners (3): Gabor Bernath (HU), Paul Pak/Peter Weilenmann (AT) and Robert Carney/Matthew Tomas (UK)
*11th: Thessaloniki, Greece 1999
** First Prize Winners (3): Sarah Flannery (IE), Sverrir Gudmumdsson/Pall Melsted/Tryggvi Thorgeirsson (IS) and Michał Książkiewicz (PL)
*12th: Amsterdam, 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)
** Competitors from SLovakia: Zuzana Krejciova | Peter Kuderjavy ([e-mail], [e-mail]) | Ivan Janotka
*14th: Vienna, Austria 2002
** First Prize Winners (3): Pawel Piotrowski (DE), Martin Etzrodt/Martin von der Helm (DE) and Lauri Kauppila (FI)
*15th: Budapest, Hungary 2003
** First Prize Winners (3): Jana Ivanidze (DE), Uwe Treske (DE) and Gábor Németh (HU)
*16th: Dublin, Ireland 2004
** First Prize Winners (3): Gerhard Schoeny/Martin Knoebel/Floreian Groessbacher (AT), Charlotte Strandkvist (DK) and Mario Chemnitz (DE)
*17th: Moscow, Russia 2005
** First Prize Winners (3): Igor Gotlibovitch/Renate Landig (DE), Javier Lopez Martinez-Fortun/Eliecer Perez Robaina (ES) and Silvana Konermann (CH)
*18th: Stockholm, Sweden 2006
** First Prize Winners (3): Michael Kaiser/Johannes KIENL (AT), Alexander Joos/Johannes Burkart (DE) and Tomasz Wdowik (PL)
*19th: Valencia, Spain, 2007
** First Prize Winners (3): Florian Ostermaier/Henrike Wilms (DE), Márton Spohn (HU) and Abdusalam Abubakar (IE)
*20th: Copenhagen, Denmark 2008

External links

* [http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/youngscientists Official EU Contest website at the European Commission]
* [http://www.ungeforskere.no/arkiv/bergen2001 13th EU Contest, Bergen website]
* [http://www.2002youngscientists.org/ 14th EU Contest, Vienna website]
* [http://www.eucontest.hu/ 15th EU Contest, Budapest website]
* [http://www.eucontestireland.com/ 16th EU Contest, Dublin website]
* [http://www.euro2005.ru/ 17th EU Contest, Moscow website]
* [http://www.eucontest.se/ 18th EU Contest, Stockholm website]
* [http://www.uv.es/eucys07/ 19th EU Contest, Valencia website]
* [http://www.eurocontest.dk/ 20th EU Contest, Copenhagen website]