Prizes
The following awards are available to projects entered from any European country.
Up to nine monetary prizes will be given to the best projects:
Monetary Prizes
» Three first prizes worth € 5000
Gábor NÉMETH, Hungary
Efficiency enhancement of plasma loudspeakers
Uwe TRESKE, Germany
Low cost scanning Tunneling microscope
Jana IVANIDZE, Germany
pH sensitive GFP mutant
» Three second prizes worth € 3000
László NAGY, Hungary
Phytocenology and environment protection of the Central Great Hungarian Plain
through a mycologist's eye
David SEHNAL, Czech Republic
Math studio - a computer algebra system
Lukasz JAREMKO and Mariusz JAREMKO, Poland
Design and synthesis of two new immunosuppressants
» Three third prizes worth € 1500
Johannes KELLER, Switzerland
The influence of the quill-shape on the harpsichord sound
Ksenia ROGOVA, Russia
The key to the mystery of the stone book
Wim COOLS, The Netherlands
A new compact operating system
EU Young Scientist Honorary Awards
The Jury can designate deserving prize winners to represent the European Union
at:
» The Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar:
where they will attend the 2000 Nobel Prize ceremonies, meet the Nobel Laureates
and take part in a series of other scientific/cultural activities during the
week.
Marek SEBESTA, Slovakia
Induction of nuclear and mitochondrial mutants in yeast williopsis suaveolens
Emily PAYNE, United Kingdom
Classification of compression wood in Sitka Spruce
» The London International Youth Science Forum:
where they will meet young scientists from around the world and take part in
the annual two-week intensive summer science festival.
Thomas RASMUSSEN, Denmark
The Diacetyl concentration in beer depending on temperature and yeast strain
Margarita LUKJANSKA, Latvia
Compatibility of tetraiamonds, pentiamonds and hexiamonds
EU Young Scientist Special Awards
Additionally the Jury can select deserving prize winners to join distinguished
research scientists and engineers to work on projects organized by:
» The European Patent Office
in Munich, Germany
Uwe TRESKE, Germany
Low cost scanning Tunneling microscope
Gábor NÉMETH, Hungary
Efficiency enhancement of plasma loudspeakers
Manuéla LUKÁCS, Hungary
Buildings assembled from skeleton elements and transportable in stock
» The European Space Research and Technology Centre
in Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Sean PAULSEN, Denmark
Determining the speed of light from the movement of the Jupiter Moon Io
Matija KASTELIC, Slovenia
Star spectrometry
» The Norwegian Polar Institute,
Ny-Alesund Large Facility, Svalbard,
Norway
Aleksi VACHADZE, Georgia
Some aspects of goitered gazelle conservation in Georgian-Azerbaijan trans-boundary
zone
Evaldas TRAINAVICIUS, Lithuania
The influence of works performed on islands for
breeding waterfowls
The Alumni Prize
Is awarded not by the Members of the Jury but by three former EU Contest prize
winners. The three former prize winners in the course of the Contest tour the
stands and discuss with Contestants the merits of their project. They have €1200
to provide for either up to three prizes of €400 or one prize of € 600
and two of €400; this they award to the projects that in their opinion is
best in terms of:
- visual display
- oral explanation
Ouardane JOUANNOT, Timothée LELEU and Jean-François
SCHAFF, France
Study of a very strange oscillator
Maxim AIZENSHTAD, Ofer KAPOTA and Shlomi
FRUCHTER, Israel
Advanced graphical 3D system for hardware accelerated environments
Victor GUTIERREZ HERNANDO, Teresa JIMENEZ HELIN and Milagros
GARCIA VILLAMOR, Spain
Field guide of the orchids in Sierra de Mijas (Benalmadena) Spain
Hungarian Sponsors Prizes
In addition, the Hungarian sponsors also offered special prizes presented at
the award ceremony by the heads of these organisations.
Special prizes are offered by:
- Hewlett-Packard Hungary Ltd.
- Paks Nuclear Power Plant Co
- Hungarian Patent Office
- EGIS Ltd.
- Gedeon Richter Ltd.
- Ministry of Education
- Danubius Hotels Group