The winners were announced on 6 June at the Opening event of the 2019 Ecsite Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark
Beacon of the Year
The Beacon of the Year Award celebrates inspirational individuals who have been contributing to our field and to the Ecsite network. The Award recognises innovative visionaries who are empowering and motivating their peers to reach a common goal: emboldening citizens to engage with science.
Prize
The winner received an amount of €2,500, a trophy and a certificate at the ceremony which took place during the Opening event of the 2019 Ecsite Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark) on 6 June 2019.
Sustainable Success
The Sustainable Success Award celebrates long-lasting impact: projects that embody the values of science engagement, that are visionary and socially relevant. For this Award, organisations put their own applications in or be prompted to do so by a peer who thinks their project deserves recognition.
Prize
The winner organisation received a trophy and a certificate at the ceremony which took place during the Opening event of the 2019 Ecsite Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark) on 6 June 2019.
Partners
Winner - Beacon of the Year
Barbara Streicher (Executive Manager at Science Center Netzwerk, Vienna Austria) won the Beacon of the Year Award for personal embodiment of our network’s values.
Winner - Sustainable Success
The non-profit organisation SciCo (Athens, Greece) won in the ‘Sustainable Success’ category for "STEMpowering Youth" - a STEM educational programme which brings together young students and educators from remote areas of Greece in order to work together out of school, come up with their own innovative ideas and develop them into real-life projects that solve local community problems.
Special mention
Universcience (Paris, France) got a special mention for taking a timely stance to counteract the spreading of misinformation with the “Data Science vs. Fake News” project, which sets a brave example for the science engagement field.
The Jury
News
6 June 2019
12 March 2019