The EU Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) is part of the Science with and for and Society activities managed by the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission. You can find out more about Science with and for and Society via the web site, which also contains a page on the Contest for Young Scientists.

The speakers from the EIROforum member organisations at the Spotlight on Science event Leaders of European research gathered at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France on 15 November for a special event to mark the 10th anniversary of the formation of EIROforum, a partnership of the eight largest European inter-governmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). The Spotlight on Science event featured eight young scientists representing the EIROs' diverse fields of research: from the origins of the universe to life beyond…

Europe’s best young scientific minds met in Bratislava from 21 – 26 September for the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), an annual event aiming to encourage young people’s interest in science. This year’s competition attracted 117 contestants aged 14 to 21, grouped in 79 projects, from 36 countries and EU schools.

The EIROforum information stand at ICRI 2012 As in the past ECRI conferences, organised by previous EU Presidencies, EIROforum and its member organisations were also represented at the ICRI Conference in Copenhagen from 21-23 March 2012. Among the invited speakers from EIROforum organisations were Dr Janet Thornton, Director of EMBL-EBI and Sergio Bertolucci, Director for Research and Computing at CERN. EIROforum also had an information stand and some thematic working groups have side-meetings in connection with the conferences.

“The future begins with science” was the slogan of the 23rd European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), an annual event aiming to encourage young people’s interest in science which took place from 23 – 28 September 2011 in Helsinki. The Kattilahalli, an old power plant transformed for cultural projects, hosted more than 130 contestants from 37 countries across Europe and beyond. They presented 87 projects to an international jury. These projects, which had already won first prize in their national contests, covered a broad spectrum of scientific areas: biology, chemistry, computing, social sciences, environment, mathematics, materials, engineering and medicine.