All the winners of the 2017 EUCYS Awards (37335645260)

The European Union (EU) Contest for Young Scientists is a

science fair Science and engineering fairs, hosted by schools worldwide, offer students the opportunity to experience the practices of science and engineering for themselves. In the United States, the Next Generation Science Standards makes experiencing the ...

, initiated by the

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. It is a part of the European Union

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, 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 Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French politician who served as the 8th President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. He served as Minister of Finance of France from 1981 to 1984. He was a Member of the European Par ...

took up the challenge from

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of the

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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.

Venues for the EU Contest for Young Scientists

*1st:

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, 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 Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, Denmark 1990 ** First Prize Winners (6): Paul Vauterin/

Bruno Callens Bruno may refer to: People and fictional characters *Bruno (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname * Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880) * Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne, ...

(BE), Waltraud Schulze (DE), Annagh Minchin (IE), Donatella Manganelli (IT), Brian Dolan/ Lee Kiera/ Ann Marie Malon (UK) and Marco Ziegler (CH) *3rd:

Zürich Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...

, 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 Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

, 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 Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, Germany 1993 ** First Prize Winners (6): Henrik Mouritsen (DK), Lars Knudsen/Peter Andersen (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) *6th:

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

, Luxembourg 1994 ** First Prize Winners (6):

Oliver Krüger Oliver Krüger (born 1973) is a German professor in Religious studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). From 1994 to 1999 he studied sociology, classical archaeology, and comparative religion at the University of Bonn. In 2003, he grad ...

(DE), Eike Lau (DE), Jane Feehan (IE), Christian Krause (DK), Henrik Strøm (NO) and Samuel Schaer (CH) *7th:

Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne ( RP: , ), or simply Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. The city is located on the River Tyne's northern bank and forms the largest part of the Tyneside built-up area. Newcastle is ...

, United Kingdom 1995 ** First Prize Winners (3): Sven Siegle (DE), Brian Fitzpatrick/

Shane Markey Shane may refer to: People * Shane (actress) (born 1969), American pornographic actress * Shane (New Zealand singer) (born 1946) * iamnotshane (born 1995), formerly known as Shane, American singer * Shane (name), a masculine given name and a su ...

(IE) and Christopher Mead/ Matthew Taylor (UK) *8th:

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

, Finland 1996 ** First Prize Winners (3): Tobias Kippenberg (DE), Yann Ollivier (FR) and Wouter Couzijn (NL) *9th:

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Italy 1997 ** First Prize Winners (3): Eike Hübner (DE),

Fiona Fraser Fiona Elizabeth Fraser (born 6 September 1980) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in 5 One Day Internationals for New Zealand in 2002. She played domestic cricket for ...

/ Ciara McGoldrick/ Emma McQuillan (IE) and Christoph Lippuner/ Antoine Wüthrich (CH) *10th:

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

, Portugal 1998 ** First Prize Winners (3): Gabor Bernath (HU), Paul Pak/ Peter Weilenmann (AT) and Robert Carney/Matthew Thomas (UK) *11th:

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

, Greece 1999 ** First Prize Winners (3):

Sarah Flannery Sarah Flannery (born 1982, County Cork, Ireland) was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for her development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore T ...

(IE), Sverrir Gudmumdsson/ Pall Melsted/ Tryggvi Thorgeirsson (IS) and Michał Książkiewicz (PL) *12th:

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

, The Netherlands 2000 ** First Prize Winners (3): Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki (PL), Joanne Daniel/ Gemma "Legend" Dawson/

Alex Wilkie Alex James Wilkie FRS (born 1948 in Northampton) is a British mathematician known for his contributions to model theory and logic. Previously Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, he was appointed to the Fielden Chair of Pur ...

(UK) and Nickoloz Tchankoshvili (GE) *13th:

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

, Norway 2001 ** First Prize Winners (3): Thomas Aumeyr/ Thomas Morocutti (AT), Sebastian Abel (DE) and James Lee Mitchell (UK) *14th:

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, Austria 2002 ** First Prize Winners (3): Pawel Piotrowski (DE), Martin Etzrodt/ Martin von der Helm (DE) and Lauri Kauppila (FI) *15th:

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, Hungary 2003 ** First Prize Winners (3): Jana Ivanidze (DE), Uwe Treske (DE) and Gábor Németh (HU) *16th:

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

, Ireland 2004 ** First Prize Winners (3): Gerhard Schoeny/ Martin Knoebel/ Floreian Groessbacher (AT), Charlotte Strandkvist (DK) and Mario Chemnitz (DE) *17th:

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, 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 Silvana Konermann is a Swiss-American biochemist whose research involves CRISPR, Cas9, and their use in genome editing. She is an assistant professor of biochemistry at Stanford University, as well as the Director and co-founder of the Arc Instit ...

(CH) **Second Prize Winners: Zdeněk Janovsky (CZ), Stephen Schulz (DE),

Patrick Collison Patrick Collison (born 9 September 1988) is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 a ...

(IE) *18th:

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, Sweden 2006 ** First Prize Winners (3): Michael Kaiser/ Johannes Kienl (AT), Alexander Joos/ Johannes Burkart (DE) and Tomasz Wdowik (PL) **Second Prize Winners: Thomas Gigl (DE), Michal Marcinkowski (PL), Zoltan Tarjanyi/Csaba Vass (HU) *19th:

Valencia, Spain Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also ...

, 2007 ** First Prize Winners (3): Florian Ostermaier/ Henrike Wilms (DE), Márton Spohn (HU) and Abdusalam Abubakar (IE) *20th:

, Denmark 2008 ** First Prize Winners (3): Magdalena Bojarska (PL), Martin Tkáč (SK) and Lily Muller (UK) *21st:

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, France 2009 ** First Prize Winners (3): Aleksander Kubica/ Wiktor Pilewski (PL), Fabian Gafner (CH), Liam McCarthy/ John D. O'Callaghan (IE) *22nd:

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

, Portugal 2010 ** First Prize Winners (3): Miroslav Rapčák/ David Pěgřímek (CZ), Łukasz Sokołowski (PL), Dávid Horváth/ Márton Balass (HU) *23rd:

, Finland 2011 ** First Prize Winners (3): Alexander Amini (IE), Pius Markus Theiler (CH), Povilas Kavaliauskas (LT) *24th:

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

, Slovakia 2012 ** First Prize Winners (3): Mark James Kelly / Eric Doyle (IR), Jakub Nagrodzki (PL), Philip Huprich / Manuel Scheipner / Daniel Zindl (AT) *25th:

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

, 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, Frederick Edward Turner (UK), Perttu Aku Anttoni Pölönen (FIN) *26th:

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, 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:

, Italy 2015 ** First Prize Winners: Michał Bączyk and Paweł Piotr Czyż, Sanath Kumar Devalapurkar, Lukas Stockner * 28th:

, Belgium 2016 ** First Prize Winners: Ane Espeseth and Torstein Vik, Valerio Pagliarino, River Grace ** Second Prize Winners: Tassilo Schwarz, Kayley Ting, Ivo Zell ** Third Prize Winners: Diana Bura and Mari Louise Fufezan, Tomáš Heger, Yongchan Hong and Yunji Seo * 29th:

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

, Estonia 2017 ** First Prize Winners: Karina Movsesjan (CZ), Adam Jan Alexander Ohnesorge (CH), Danish Mahmood (CA) ** Second Prize Winners: Colette Benko (CA), Kamil Humański (PL), Yana Zhabura (UA) ** Third Prize Winners: Arne Jakob Geipel and Matthias Paul Grützner and Julian Egbert (DE), Florian Cäsar and Michael Plainer (AT), Chavdar Tsvetanov Lalov (BG) * 30th:

, Ireland 2018 ** First Prize Winners: Adrian Fleck and Anna Fleck (DE), Brendon Matusch (CA), Nicolas Fedrigo (CA) ** 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 * 31st:

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

, Bulgaria 2019 ** First Prize Winners: Leo Li Takemaru, Poojan Pandya, Adam Kelly, Alex Korocencev, Felix Sewing, Magnus Quaade Oddershede ** Second Prize Winners: Saba Gogichaishvili, Nia Gogokhia, Olli Järviniemi, Jaehyun Lee, Claudia Lídia Pubill Quintillà ** Third Prize Winners: Antoni Ignacy Lis, Noah Scheiring, Andreas Ladner, Tobias Schauer, Océane Zofia Adrienne Patiny, Aliaksandr Piachonkin * 32nd:

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...

, Spain 2021 ** First Prize Winners for 2020: Feridun Balaban, Cormac Thomas Harris, Alan Thomas O'Sullivan ** Second Prize Winners for 2020: Ophélie Léna Rivière, Yordan Tsvetkov Tsvetkov ** Third Prize Winners for 2020: Dmitriy Gorovoy, Jarosław Jakub Brodecki ** First Prize Winners for 2021: Marik Müller, Viktor Stilianov Kolev, Carla Caro Villanova, Illia Nalyvaiko ** Second Prize Winners for 2021: Mehmet Sertaç Çeküç, Hardit Singh, Sophie Lynn Wiesmann, Giovanni Benetti ** Third Prize Winners for 2021: Gregory Guy Tarr, Matus Mlynar, Michal Bravanský

Venues for the EU Contest for Young Scientists

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