National Scientific and Innovation Competition for Youth
The First National Innovation Competition for Youth took place in 1991/1992. Through organising this competition Hungary was offered the possibility to be the first from Central-Eastern Europe to join the Competition for Young Scientists that has been organised by the 12th Directorate-General of the European Commission since 1988. The purpose is to promote cooperation among young scientist-candidates of 15 to 20 years of age in order to contribute to the development of promising young talents. The Hungarian competition is announced by the Hungarian Innovation Association, the Ministry of Education and Duna Television and the Hungarian Patent Office is also found among its supporters. Also the president of the Hungarian Patent Office participates as a juror. The consideration for competition and the delivery in the course of an event called INNOFÓRUM occurs at the end of May each year.
See details of the competition at www.innovacio.hu.
Special Awards from the Hungarian Patent Office
2006/2007
Áron Hunyadi
The second prize was won by Áron Hunyadi (1989) through his competitive work entitled "The banking safe door lock".
2004/2005
Adrienn Nikoletta Kocsis
The first prize was won by Kocsis Adrienn Nikoletta (1987) through her competitive work entitled "Methodical elaboration and application of the experimental model of chronically canuled, awake rat".
Levente Kovács and András Jipa
The second prize was won by Levente Kovács (1987) and Jipa András (1988) through their competitive work entitled "The impact of mass stress on the resistance ability and genetic stability of drosophiles".
2003/2004
Bálint Bártfai
The first prize was won by Bálint Bártfai (1985) through his competitive work entitled "Production of personalised medical prosthesis with Rapid Prototyping equipment from CT and MR test data".
Dániel Rátai
The second prize was won by Dániel Rátai (1985) through his competitive work entitled "3D form design and aerodynamic testing system for PCs".
Béla Angyal
The second prize was won by Béla Angyal (1985) through his competitive work entitled "Testing the pH value of the mouth in order to prevent caries".
2002/2003
Gábor Németh
The first prize was won by Gábor Németh (1984) through his competitive work entitled "Increasing the effectiveness of plasma loudspeakers".
The same work won first prize at the 15th Contest of Young European Scientists in September 2003, and also received the special prize of the European Patent Office.
Manuéla Lukács
The second prize was won by Manuéla Lukács (1984) through her competitive work entitled "Structures that can be transported in stock assembled from frame elements".
The same work won the special prize of the European Patent Office in September 2003 at the 15th Contest of Young European Scientists.
2001/2002
Lívia Mészáros
Lívia Mészáros (1983) won the first prize with her application 'Expression of the Wilms-tumor 1 (WT1) gene in human melanomia cell-lines'.
Szilárd Trefán
Szilárd Trefán (1983) won the third prize with his application 'Process and apparatus for removing trees with the stumps'.
2000/2001
Attila Déry
Attila Déry (1981) won the first prize with his application 'Moving the drop-keel of and designing the rig of sailing-boats'.
Márton Juhász
Márton Juhász (1983) won the second prize with his application 'Working out a new cybernetic process to substitute limbs and modelling the results'.
1999/2000
Ramón Hegedűs
Ramón Hegedűs (1981) won the first prize with his competition '3-D quick photography of excimer laser ablation'.
György Fekete
György Fekete (1982) won the third prize with his application 'A stroboscopic paint-monitoring system'.
1998/1999
Sebestyén Ziegler
Fist prize was won by Sebestyén Ziegler (1981) with his application 'Electrically actuated micrometer'.
Roland Káplár
Roland Káplár (1979) won the third prize through introducing a new vice clamping system.
1997/1998
Emil Laslo
Emil Laslo (1977) won the second prize with his application 'Expansion of the modular system of computers'.