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18th EU Contest for Young ScientistsThe 18th European Union (EU) Contest for Young Scientists took place in Stockholm, September 23-28, 2006.
24 young people received a share of the €28500 prize pot awarded at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists. Three projects received €5000 each as first prize was shared by Michael Kaiser and Johannes Kienl of Austria for "Development of a complete new de-ice system for aircraft", Johannes Burkart and Alexander Joos of Germany for "Flight curves of table-tennis balls" and Tomasz Wdowik of Poland for "Synthesis of new potential β blockers". Other prize-winners came from Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway and Spain. The winners were chosen by the jury from a field of 120 young scientists, aged from 15 to 20 from 33 countries. The jury consisted of 15 distinguished scientists headed by Prof Jane Grimson of Trinity College Dublin.
The Contest is one of the activities managed by the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission, and is the responsibility of the Science and Society Directorate, and aims to widely build a more harmonious relationship between scientific endeavour and the European society at large. The Host Organisers in Stockholm were the Swedish Federation of Young Scientists in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council and the Royal Academy of Sciences. The first EU Contest took place in Brussels in 1989. Since then, the event has been hosted in Copenhagen, Zurich, Seville, Berlin, Luxembourg, Newcastle upon Tyne, Helsinki, Milan, Porto, Thessalonica, Amsterdam, Bergen, Vienna, Budapest, Dublin, Moscow and Stockholm.
In the year 2007, the contest will be held in Valencia, Spain.
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