StRuNa 2020 contest finalists

The contest evaluates the scientific activity of student research groups and other students organisations. It is established to award the students and doctoral students who made the team effort to execute the most interesting scientific projects. Among those awarded are also scientific supervisors and the founders of entities launching scientific activity.

This year, among the nominees are the following groups and organisations:

• Humanoid Student Research Group (Faculty of Mechatronics) – nominated in the Student Research Group of the Year category,
• Robotics Student Research Group (Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering) for creating a team of humanoid robots for the RoboCup Soccer contest - nominated in projects categories,
• WUT Racing (Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering) for the WUT-3 car - nominated in projects categories,
• intercollegiate team headed by the Students Research Group of Business  from the Warsaw School of Economics, and executed by the students of Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw University of Technology, University of Warsaw and Warsaw School of Economics for their MedBiz Innovations Program - nominated in projects categories. 

The prizes will be awarded in the following 13 categories:

• projects: Project of the Year, StRuNa-Human, StRuNa-Med, StRuNa-Tech,  StRuNa-Science, StRuNa-Eko, StRuNa-Art, Journey of the Year and Conference of the Year,
• Debut of the Year,
• StRuNa Media,
• Student Research Group of the Year,
• Scientific Supervisor of the Year.

The awarded projects must have been completely or mainly executed between October 1st, 2019 and September 30th, 2020. 

There are two stages of the contest. For the first part, the participants have submitted application forms and attachments. The second part (between november 12th and 14th, 2020) is a series of presentations of the projects in front of scientific committees (scholars, lecturers, members of non-governmental organisations, journalists and former members of student research groups).

The winners will be announced on November 15th, 2020, during the 4th IKONA Congress of Scientific Circles 2020.

The StRuNa contest is a part of the Students Scientific Year Program.

For more information, visit the contest website and Facebook.