Winners
The Core Prizes are the principal prizes awarded at the contest. These are cash prizes. In the case of a team winning such a prize, the amount is shared equally between the members of the team.
There are three categories of Core Prizes:
- Four First Prizes worth €7,000 each
- Four Second Prizes worth €5,000 each
- Four Third Prizes worth €3,500 each
Third Prize winners:
Antoni Ignacy Lis – Poland
Field: Chemistry
Project: Nanoparticles in antitumor therapy
Noah Scheiring, Andreas Ladner, Tobias Schauer – Austria
Field: Engineering
Project: Diffrec PRO
Océane Zofia Adrienne Patiny – Switzerland
Field: Engineering
Project: Remote Controlled Cylinder
Aliaksandr Piachonkin – Belarus
Field: Mathematics
Project: On the number of points on an algebraic curve ina ring of residues
Second Prize winners:
Saba Gogichaishvili, Nia Gogokhia – Georgia
Field: Chemistry
Project: Novel Biodegradable Polymer for Pharmaceutical Applications
Olli Järviniemi – Finland
Field: Mathematics
Project: On the Common Prime Divisors of Polynomials
Jaehyun Lee – South Korea
Field: Physics
Project: Introduction of a Novel Diodicity Evaluation Criteria and 1-D Approximate Model for Multistaged NMP (No-Moving-Parts) Check Valves and Methods for Valve Stage Optimization
Claudia Lídia Pubill Quintillà – Spain
Field: Social sciences
Project: With Death at His Heels. Chronicle of an Escape and Two Wars.
First Prize winners:
Leo Li Takemaru, Poojan Pandya – USA
Field: Biology
Project: Investigating the Role of the Novel ESCRT-III Recruiter CCDC11 in HIV Budding: Identifying a Potential Target for Antiviral Therapy
Adam Kelly – Ireland
Field: Computing
Project: Optimised Simulation of General Quantum Circuits
Alex Korocencev, Felix Sewing – Germany
Field: Engineering
Project: Hoverboard – a Magnetically Levitated Vehicle
Magnus Quaade Oddershede – Denmark
Field: Engineering
Project: The wingtip’s influence on the efficiency of airplane wings
London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF)
Selected winners receive an all-expenses paid trip to London to attend the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF).
Adam Kelly – Ireland
Field: Computing
Project: Optimised Simulation of General Quantum Circuits
Magnus Quaade Oddershede – Denmark
Field: Engineering
Project: The wingtip’s influence on the efficiency of airplane wings
Olli Järviniemi – Finland
Field: Mathematics
Project: On the Common Prime Divisors of Polynomials
Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS)
Selected winners receive an all-expenses paid trip to Stockholm to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS) and the Nobel Prize Ceremony.
Alex Korocencev, Felix Sewing – Germany
Field: Engineering
Project: Hoverboard – a Magnetically Levitated Vehicle
The European Space Agency (ESA)
The winner have the opportunity to attend a major space science conference in Europe or to spend a week at ESA’s main technical centre, ESTEC, in The Netherlands.
Océane Zofia Adrienne Patiny – Switzerland
Field: Engineering
Project: Remote Controlled Cylinder
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
The winners receive a week’s visit to CERN Geneva site.
Mateusz Mazurkiewicz, Łukasz Gałecki, Jan Struziński – Poland
Field: Engineering
Project: High Altitude Micro Air Vehicle
EUROfusion (JET)
The winner will receieve a one week stay at their Culham, Oxfordshire, UK site
Manning Whitby – Canada
Field: Engineering
Project: An Interpretation of Life Through Vibration Motors
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
The winner recieve a one week visit to ESRF site in Grenoble
Alexandr Zarivnij – Czechia
Field: Medicine
Project: Inhibition of glutamate excitotoxicity in glaucoma by liposomes
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
The winners recieve a week’s placement at EMBL premises in Heidelberg, Germany
Mattias Akke, Elsa Axby – Sweden
Field: Chemistry
Project: Catching the Bad Guys: Capturing Oligomers of the Amyloid-beta Peptides
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
The winner recieve a visit to ESO facilities in Chile including trips to the Paranal Observatory and ESO’s Scientific Centre in Santiago, Chile
Ségolène Mosser, Louise Richard, Hugo Montan – France
Field: Physics
Project: Advanced ARAGO, a „gravitational wave“ detector
The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)
The winner will receieve a one week visit to their Grenoble site
Nadia Brzostowicz – Spain
Field: Physics
Project: Acoustic levitation. Building and analyzing two different acoustic levitators based on piezoelectric transducers, and exploring its current and possible future applications using simple physical and chemical experiments.
European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH (XFEL.EU)
The winner will receieve a one week placement at their site near Hamburg, Germany
Roman Rouba – Belarus
Field: Physics
Project: Investigation of the Prince Rupert’s drop properties
EuChemS Prize
The European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences is pleased to offer a prize of €1000.
Zeyad Bady – Egypt
Field: Chemistry
Project: High particulate matter filtration efficiency Nano-fibrous membrane
The EUCYS Bioeconomy Bio-based Industries Prize
BBI JU will provide a paid 5-day trip to Brussels for the winning project including travel to/from, accommodation and daily allowance in Brussels and participating in a tailor-made experience related to the science behind the BBI JU programme.
Ronja Holopainen – Finland
Field: Materials
Project: EcoMe: a reusable, ecological and affordable menstrual hygiene product for developing regions
The European Food and Drink Industry prize, awarded by FoodDrinkEurope
FoodDrinkEurope, on behalf of Europe’s Food and Drink Industry, is very pleased to award the winner with a check for 2,000 euros, to provide support for her future academic or professional plans.
Emma Nielsen – Denmark
Field: Environment
Project: MOOSIC: a mean for productivity optimisation
The Unilever Prize
Unilever is pleased to welcome the winner to its brand-new Global Foods Innovation Centre in Wageningen (Netherlands), also known as “the Silicon Valley of Foods”. During a two-day mini-internship, he will get to experience how products from brands like Knorr, Hellmann’s and Lipton are being developed.
Miklós Zsigó – Hungary
Field: Engineering
Project: Moth.NET
The PepsiCo Prize
PepsiCo invites the winning team to spend a day at our Beaumont Park R&D centre in the UK, following a range of different activities with our R&D team.
Hannah Schatz, Yasemin Gedik – Austria
Field: Environment
Project: Microplastic on our doorstep
Expo-Sciences Luxembourg
The winner gets the possibility to present his project alongside our national participants.
Zvezdin Besarabov – Bulgaria
Field: Computing
Project: Distributed creation of Machine learning agents for Blockchain analysis
International Swiss Talent Forum (ISTF)
ISTF awards the opportunity to participate at The International Swiss Talent Forum – February 5th – 8th 2020.
Elisa Seghetti – Italy
Field: Social sciences
Project: OnMind: an IoT wearable biofeedback system for the treatment of psychosomatic disorders
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) Prizes
The winners recieve a two day stay at its Ispra site in Italy.
María Bouso Posada, Xiana Rego Fernández, Ana Rubal Sánchez – Spain
Field: Biology
Project: O da la miúda. Distribution, ethology and phenology of the Iberian wolf.
Jannik Wyss – Switzerland
Field: Biology
Project: Gene regulation during development: The roles of the genes xbp1, creb3l1 and creb3l2 in axial mesoderm differentiation
Andrey Gizdov – Bulgaria
Field: Medicine
Project: A novel method for skeletal age estimation based on cranial suture analysis
Elias Elias – Israel
Field: Medicine
Project: The effect of the E12 antibody on multiple sclerosis
International Students of History Association (ISHA)
The winner will be invited to parcipate in a relevant conference and present their results.
Claudia Lídia Pubill Quintillà – Spain
Field: Social sciences
Project: With Death at His Heels. Chronicle of an Escape and Two Wars.
Bulgarian Summer Research School Award
The winners will be invited to participate in the Summer Research School of the Bulgarian High School Students Institute of Mathematics and Informatics.
Aalia Sellar, Brendan Miralles, Grace Lord – United Kingdom
Field: Computing
Project: Music Splash
Alexander Alexandrovich Sokko – Russia
Field: Engineering
Project: Next generation of solid-fuel rocket engines
National Workshop on Coding Theory “Proffessor Stefan Dodunekov” Prize
The winners will be invited to parcipate in the next edition of NWCT (November 2019, Chiflika, Bulgaria).
Ján Varga – Slovakia
Field: Computing
Project: Prevention of Cheating in eSports
Constantin Schott – Germany
Field: Mathematics
Project: Neural Network application to key-point-detection in radiographs
Up to three contestants receive an all-expenses-paid trip to London to attend the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF). The prize covers the travel costs from the country of origin, accommodation, meals, registration, and participation in a full programme of activities.
The award offers one student, who will not have finished his secondary education by August 2019 the opportunity to parcipate in the Summer Research School of the Bulgarian High School Students Instute of Mathematics and Informatics. The Summer Research School is a three -week program, held each August in Bulgaria, during which the parcipants have the opportunity to work on a research topic in Mathematics or Computer Science with a personal mentor.
Unilever is pleased to welcome three students to its brand-new Global Foods Innovation Centre in Wageningen (Netherlands), also known as “the Silicon Valley of Foods”. In this Innovation Centre, our scientists work together with the Wageningen University & Research, other companies and startups on exciting new food products for a better and healthier future.
PepsiCo is once again delighted to support EUCYS 2019, and to invite the winning team to spend a day at our Beaumont Park R&D centre in the UK, following a range of different activities with our R&D team. PepsiCo would also propose to include a visit of our Leycroft factory nearby, to see first-hand how the R&D effort translates into delightful new product offerings to our consumers. We would also set up an opportunity for the winning EUCYS team to spend time with some of the students who intern with us for up to a year, to explain what they have been doing as well…
About the bioeconomy
FoodDrinkEurope, on behalf of Europe’s Food and Drink Industry, is very pleased to award the winner/each member of the winning team with a check for 2,000 euros, to help the young scientists in their research pursuits and provide support for their future academic or professional plans.
The European Chemical Society (EuChemS) brings together over 40 chemical societies which together represent more than 160,000 chemists in academia, industry, government and professional organisations in over 30 countries across Europe.
WOLFRAM Research is donating a one-year Wolfram Mathematica Student Edition license plus a free one-year subscription to WolframAlpha Pro for all contestants submitting projects in the field of mathematics, physics and computer science.
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission’s science and knowledge service. It performs direct scientific research and provides evidence-based and independent scientific advice to European policy makers helping them to make informed decisions.
The Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS) is an annual weeklong event for international young scientists, arranged in connection with the Nobel festivities by the SIYSS Committee of the Swedish Federation of Young Scientist in collaboration with the Nobel Foundation.
EIROforum is a partnership of Europe’s eight largest intergovernmental research organisations. As world leaders within their respective fields of science, the member organisations of EIROforum constitute the vanguard of European science. Operating some of the largest research infrastructures in Europe devoted to the exploration of key questions on the origin and the evolution of matter and biological life in our Universe, they enable European scientists to engage in truly cutting-edge research, and be competitive on a global scale.
The International Swiss Talent Forum (ISTF) is an independent think-tank for young adults who are interested in the universal and long-term challenges of our time. It was launched by the foundation Swiss Youth in Science in 2009 and brings talented young people to Switzerland from all over Europe and beyond. By placing students amongst experts, decision-makers and lateral-thinkers, we create a space for innovation, interaction and debate to develop new solutions to current global issues. Working closely in such a setting, participants will learn how to tackle interdisciplinary problems with solution-oriented approaches. They also have the chance to build a network of national and international contacts, which will launch their aspirations in business, science or politics.
The Expo-Sciences Luxembourg is an international, non-competitive science fair that welcomes young laureates from all over the world. Young scientists get the possibility to present their scientific projects alongside our national participants.