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PRESS INVITE: EU to reward scientific achievements and imagination of young people
September 12, 2002European Commission Research Directorate-General
Vienna, 22-28 September 2002
Key words: young people and science, contest
On 27 September in Vienna, Commission`s Director Rainer Gerold and two Austrian Ministers - Mr. M. Bartenstein for Economic Affaires and Labour and Ms. E. Gehrer for Education, Science, and Culture - will handout the prizes to the winners of the 14th EU Contest for Young Scientists, which is the annual showcase of the best of European student scientific achievement. During one week 85 young scientists (aged 15-20) from more than 30 European countries, the United States, China, Japan and Korea will compete. In Vienna the Commission will also celebrate the 1000th participant of the Contest`s history.
This year’s international jury will assess 64 high quality projects covering a wide range of scientific fields, from magnetic liquid crystals to malaria parasite and life in the Universe (see list below). 4 Nobel laureates will interact with the young scientists in Vienna during the Contest: Ivar Giaever (USA), Sir Harry Kroto (UK), Erwin Neher (DE) and Carlo Rubbia (IT).
A press conference is scheduled in Vienna on 27 September 2002 at 10:30.
During this well-known annual event, young scientists will exhibit their prize-winning entries from their national contests and compete to obtain an award of international level. Thus, the Contest represents the ultimate goal for more than 30 000 young science students who participate annually in the national contests.
An international Jury of twelve eminent scientists will interview the contestants and evaluate their projects. The three first prizes are worth EUR 5000, with the three second prizes worth EUR 3000 and three third prizes worth EUR 1500. Through this Contest the European Commission wants to encourage and highlight young people’s interest in science by inviting them to play an active part in the great research adventure of today.
14th European Union Contest for Young Scientists
List of projects presented in Vienna
Country Title
1. AUSTRIA Optimisation of an Artificial Urethra Compressor
2. AUSTRIA Measuring the Dielectric Properties of Paper
3. AUSTRIA The Germ Free Humidifier
4. BELARUS The magnetic liquid crystals medium : synthesis and application
5. BELARUS The Automatic Management for MS Windows Processes
6. BELGIUM Morphological Diversity of Cladoceran Resting Eggs in Shallow Lakes
7. BULGARIA The living universe
8. BULGARIA Noble Metals on the Photocatalytic Efficiency
9. CZECH REPUBLIC Possibility of substitution of nuclear energy by solar energy
10. DENMARK Life in Space ?
11. ESTONIA Regeneration of vegetation in Tika gravel quarry
12. EUR SCHOOLS Chloroplast Number and Cytoplasmic Volume in Primordial Elodea Cells
13. FINLAND Drainage of a peatland - how it affects methane emissions ?
14. FINLAND Comparing the O/F ratio and heat released in rocket fuel
15. FRANCE Meta Interpreters for GNU Prolog
16. FRANCE Are there any germs in the highest layers of the atmosphere
17. GEORGIA The role of Ground beetles in preservation of ecosystems sustainability
18. GEORGIA Differentiation of plant species by photoluminescence method
19. GERMANY Lift of special wings in the ground effect
20. GERMANY The slime mold Physarum as a model organism for biotesting
21. GERMANY Gravitation rules
22. HUNGARY Investigation of adverse health effects of residual oil fly ash
23. HUNGARY Less animal required for programmable simulator for biological experiment
24. HUNGARY Expression of the Wilm`s tumour 1 gene in human melanoma cell lines
25. IRELAND The Distribution of the Primes
26. ISRAEL Vitamin E- a preventive of heart disease caused by arteriosclerosis
27. ISRAEL Butterfly-fishes of Genus Chaetodon - indicator species monitoring changes in Eilat`s reef
28. ITALY Appliance for the vertebral column functional traction : design and production
29. ITALY Time standard signals reception and use
30. JAPAN The studies of Megaphones
31. KOREA Research on Manufacture of Wave Height Meter
32. LATVIA The determination of the maximal offset of blocks
33. LATVIA Research on the Spectral Type of Stars in the Constellation Cygnus
34. LATVIA New azobenzene derivatives for molecular electronics
35. LITHUANIA Footsteps of solar activity inside trees
36. LITHUANIA Astronomical Circumstances for Life in the Solar Vicinity
37. LUXEMBOURG CERAMBIX
38. MALTA LCD Wireless Pager - receive only
39. NORWAY The physics of a rolling soda can
40. NORWAY A full-latency, non sequential, probabilistic, lossless data compression algorithm
41. POLAND New three methods of visual cryptography
42. POLAND Natural method for removing seston from the water bodies
43. POLAND Influence of direction and intensity of gravity on plant growth
44. PORTUGAL Microtus cabrerae in Odemira
45. RUSSIA How to get together by means of light chaotically distributed small particles
46. RUSSIA The influence of th eoil spills the water organisms
47. SLOVENIA Chemiluminescence
48. SLOVENIA Laminar and Turbulent Flow
49. SPAIN European adolescents eating habits and recommended diets
50. SPAIN Hexapod : An introduction to artificial intelligence
51. SWEDEN Diagnosis of Cystinuria - inherited kidney stone
52. SWEDEN Investigation of a Swedish lake, plants, animals and the water
53. SWEDEN The sampler that takes a jolly bottom bite
54. SWITZERLAND Postprandial blood glucose of a type 1 diabetic
55. SWITZERLAND Construction of an Autonomous Mobile Robot
56. SWITZERLAND Electric Fields on Point Charges Visualized by their Field Lines
57. THE NETHERLANDS The nature of SS 433
58. TURKEY A general approach to the Proof of Inequalities
59. TURKEY Handwritten Character Recognition Line by Line
60. UKRAINE Electromagnetic field and external piezoconverters stimulate ultarsonic waves in LiNBO3 plates
61. UNITED KINGDOM Rusty Willows
62. UNITED KINGDOM How toxins produced in lactose intolerance effect cell calcium concentrations
63. UNITED KINGDOM DNA vectors and the genetic modification of the malaria parasite
64. USA Increasing Crop Yields through the characterization of ct2 and QTL analysis
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