Winners of 36th EUCYS 2025 – Czechia also succeeded

On 19 September 2025, the winners of the 36th edition of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) were announced in Riga, Latvia. The participants, aged 14 to 20 from 40 countries across Europe and beyond, presented 90 different projects to an international jury of 21 highly qualified scientists and engineers with worldwide reputations in their chosen fields.

The projects winning the first prize of € 7,000 each are:

• Evan Budz from Canada for his project ‘Development of an Autonomous Bionic Sea Turtle Robot for Ecological Monitoring using AI’
• Anna Černá from Czechia for her project ‘Role of RECQ4 in DNA replication initiation’
• Antoni Łuczak from Poland for his project ‘On Apollonian Cubics in a Triangle’
• Dani Zuhair from Sweden for his project ‘Investigation into the Depth Dependent Dynamics of Columnar Skyrmions’

The second and third prizes went to projects from Türkiye, Portugal, Greece, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary and the USA. The Special Jury Prize of €2,500 went to Georgia. The winning projects share a total of €64,500 in prize money. Costs of the contests are covered by the grant from the ERA part of Horizon Europe.

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