Press Release: Meet tomorrow’s top researchers at EU Contest for Young Scientists!

This year's EU contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, rewarded contestants aged 14 - 19 who shared the € 46.500 prize pot. Three projects received first prizes of 7.000 € each shared by Magdalena Bojarska from Poland for 'Hamiltonian cycles in generalized Halin graphs', Martin Tkác from Slovakia for 'Tilting of bulk materials based on gravitation principle in cargo railway transport', and Elisabeth Muller from the United Kingdom for 'From Microcosm to Magma Oceans: A Lunar Meteorite Perspective'. Other prize winners came from Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Belarus, France and Latvia. For this 20th anniversary of the EUCYS, the European Commission decided to award a Prize for International Cooperation, for the best project from a Third Country team. In doing so, the Commission underlined the importance of international scientific cooperation in research. The prize, worth € 5.000, was won by Pipa Grierson from New Zealand for 'Fighting Facial Eczema'.