This is your opportunity to create an important project for society and to present it to the EU scientists as well as to receive professional feedback , special prizes, grants, invitations to scientific events like the Nobel Prize ceremony!
Do you want to save the planet from global warming, to take part in an expedition to Mars or to invent a vaccine against an evil virus? Do you dream of working in European leading labs or establishing one in Ukraine?
Then the EU Contest for Young Scientists is just for you!

The competition is hosted by one of the EU countries every year in September. It is attended by students aged 14 to 20 from about 40 countries. Each country can submit up to three projects.

Your project can be in any scientific field, but the priority goes to projects in STEM and applied sciences.
A project should consist of two parts – a written paper and a presentation. The first one should include:

• a description of the project up to 10 pages,
• appendices with illustrations - up to 10 pages,
• a project summary which is a one-page extract with research keynotes.
  You also have to create a poster (DISPLAY) that will briefly describe the essence of your project. You will use it to defend your work to the jury at the contest. All the written materials as well as a presentation for the jury should be performed in English.

If the event is held offline, the managers of the JAS International Relations Department will help you with all the trip arrangements, and the state, represented by the NC "JASU", will cover accommodation and logistics costs, as well as organizational fees.

Projects are evaluated by the jury of 18-20 scientists and businessmen. They will assess the authenticity and creativity of your approach, thoroughness of your study, arguments you use and clarity of conclusions you make. They will also take into account your ability to answer all the questions regarding the project that may arise. The decision of the jury is final, and not a subject to appeal.

So prepare yourself well!

To take part in the EU Contest for Young Scientists you have to receive a recommendation from the expert commission as a special prize at the third stage of the All-Ukrainian contest-presentation of scientific research projects or at the exhibition competition the "Future of Ukraine".

Finalists will compete for 9 main awards: three first, second and third prizes:
I prize - 7, 000 EUR;
II prize - 5,000 EUR;
III prize - 3,500 EUR.
However, there is more! You will also have a chance to receive special awards and prizes from the partners of the contest.
A special award will give you the opportunity to attend the London International Youth Science Forum or the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar, where you will have to see the Nobel Prize Ceremony!
The EIROforum prize will allow you to visit the biggest research laboratories in Europe. And the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (JRC) awards three contestants with a two-day trip to the JRC site in Ispra, Italy.
The European Chemical Society will award the best project in the category with 1000 EUR. Therefore, if you feel confident with testing tubes and reagents, you can get an additional reward for your research! What if you grow the cheapest artificial diamonds or create a compound that will save water bodies from pollution?

If you are looking for a way to recycle garbage with bugs, worms and bacteria, and if you want eco-friendly organic cosmetics to be used all over the world, then Bio-based Industries can help you. It will award the best project in the field: the winner will go to Brussels and visit bio-based plants in Belgium and Northern France. And last but not least, you can also win a visit to "FoodDrinkEurope" and "Food industry" companies, and EIROforum organizations.

This is a highly competitive contest: about 150 young scientists with more than 100 projects take part in the final stage of the contest annually. However, JAS students have always won awards and special prizes! Not the first prizes yet. So perhaps maybe that would be you?

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Oleksandr Romanenko (National Medical University) and Oleksandr Yurov (National Center "Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine") are the national coordinators of the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Ukraine.

If you still have any questions, please get in touch with the JAS International Relations Office via email – [email protected]

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