Award ceremony for "Young Scientists"

On January 13, 2016, outstanding achievements in cross-border cooperation in the Neisse-Nisa-Nysa Euroregion were honored during a festive ceremony at the European Center for Education and Culture in Zgorzelec. As part of this event, student projects were also recognized in the “Young Scientists” category. The awards honored projects that contributed to solving Euroregional challenges and problems.

This year’s first prize in the “Young Scientists” category went to students Stefan Strehler, Alexander Preuß, and Maciej Krzan from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for their project “Cross-Border German-Polish Student Working Group: Schüler IT.” This project aims to introduce German and Polish youth to information technology and to contribute to the training of highly qualified professionals for the region. The goal of this project is to lay the groundwork for pursuing a degree in computer science, with German and Polish high school students from the cities of Görlitz and Zgorzelec integrated into this working group.

Thanks to the initiatives of the Academic Coordination Center of the Universities of the Neisse Euroregion, this award has now been presented for the eighth time. The choice of venue, this cultural center—which was inaugurated just over a year ago on the grounds of the former Stalag VIII A prisoner-of-war camp on the outskirts of Zgorzelec—was also intended to honor the memory of the 120,000 prisoners of war from a wide variety of nations.

The award, accompanied by prize money from the Friends of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, was presented by the rector of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Friedrich Albrecht; Ms. Zonja Szymanowski, coordinator at the Academic Coordination Center for the university, Dr. Helena Neumannová from the Technical University of Liberec, and Dr. Franciszek Adamczuk from the University of Economics in Wrocław.

The international network Neisse University also celebrated a second-place finish in the category of Culture/Education/Sports.