Press release: Europe’s top young scientists chosen in Warsaw

110 researchers aged 14 to 20 presented their projects during an intense competition at University of Warsaw. They were competing for honours in the 26th annual European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), which concluded with the awards ceremony on the 23 September 2014. The winners also divided up a total of €62.500 in prize money, as well as other coveted prizes such as science trips

The three first prizes of €7000 each were awarded to João Pedro Estácio Gaspar Gonçalves de Araújo from Portugal for 'A natural characterization of semilattices of rectangular bands and groups of exponent two', Mariana De Pinho Garcia and Matilde Gonçalves Moreira da Silva from Portugal for 'Smart Snails' and Luboš Vozdecký from the Czech Republic for 'Rolling Friction'.

The Warsaw contest brought together 77 projects from 36 countries, including EU Member States and associated and international countries. All entries had already won first prize in their country's respective national science contests in their specific field. The project topics covered a broad spectrum of scientific areas: biology, physics, chemistry, computing, social sciences, environment, mathematics, materials, engineering and medicine.

European Commission: RAPID: MEMO/14/536: 26 years of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-536_en.htm

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