EC announces winners of 2020-2021 EUCYS contest

On 19 September 2021, the European Commission announced the winners of the EU Contest for Young Scientists 2020-2021 (due to the pandemics the 32. edition covered the year 2020 as well as 2021). The top prizes were awarded to six projects from Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine. The winners will receive €7,000 for each of their outstanding projects in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as well as in social sciences. The second and third prizes were granted to projects from Bulgaria, Czechia, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Belarus, and Canada. The EU Contest for Young Scientists was set up by the European Commission in 1989 to encourage cooperation and exchange between young scientists and to give them the opportunity to be guided by some of Europe's most prominent researchers. It also seeks to encourage young people to study STEM and to pursue a career in science. This year, 158 promising young scientists, aged between 14 and 20 years old and coming from 34 countries, participated. The students presented 114 different projects to an international jury of renowned scientists, chaired by Dr Attila Borics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. They were announced during a ceremony in the University of Salamanca, Spain, following a two-day virtual competition. EC information on EUCYS is here, the videorecording of the 2020-2021 contest here and the list of winning projects here.

One of the four 3rd prizes 2021 was awarded to Michal Bravanský (Czechia) and his „Be Informed: a news aggregator” project. A special prize „Professor Stefan Dodunekov“ 2021 of the Bulgarian National Seminar on Coding Theory was awarded to Zdeněk Pezlar (Czechia) and his project „Interesting uses of algebraic number theory“.