Project Adviser at European Commission, Research Executive Agency (REA), Unit C4, ERA Sector
📢 Congratulations to the winners of this year's European Union Contest for Young Scientists! #EUCYS 🏆 This year’s EUCYS edition, held in Brussels from 13-15 September, gathered 136 promising #young #scientists from 36 countries across the EU and beyond, who presented 85 different #projects to an #international jury of 22 highly qualified scientists and engineers with worldwide reputations in their chosen fields. The winning projects shared a total of €62 000 in #prize money, including four 1st prizes of €7,000, four 2nd prizes of €5,000, four 3rd prizes of €3,500 and prestigious #scholarship and visits to the EIROforum, CERN, ESA, etc. The participants had all previously won first prizes in their home countries' national science competitions in their specific fields. The projects covered a broad spectrum of scientific areas, including biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environment, mathematics, medicine, physics and social sciences. EUCYS is the most important student science fair in the EU set up by the European Commission in 1989. Each year, the event brings together the best young scientists aged 14-20 years old from the EU and beyond to present their projects to a panel of international judges. EUCYS aims to promote young European students’ careers in #Research & #Innovation by giving them the opportunity to compete and exchange with their peers at EU and international level and be guided by some of the most prominent scientists in Europe. One of EUCYS’ main goals is also to foster the participation of #young #women scientists in Research & Innovation, as they are still underrepresented in #STEM. This year, 50 of the 136 participants are young women. EUCYS is hosted annually in a different European country. This edition is the third hosted by Belgium since its first edition in 1989. More info 👉https://lnkd.in/eT6GcR2v European Research Executive Agency (REA)
