Young Innovators Competition – Applications are now open

You are invited to participate in the competition and to read the TERMS&CONDITIONS and the POSTER. 

The ‘Young Innovators’ competition is addressed to the students and graduates of exact science and technical intramural/extramural studies in Poland. The upcoming, 15th edition of the competition accepts doctoral, engineering or master theses in Polish, German or English, defended after 1 January 2021. All submitted theses must not violate copyrights and invention rights or personal rights of third parties. The research and scientific values and practical applicability  of the results in automation, robotics and measurements will be assessed. The topic range of the theses submitted to the competition has remained constant over the years and covers the following areas:

• control, automation and process automation,
• robotics,
• metrology and measuring systems,
• sensors and measuring transducers,
• diagnostics and quality control systems.

General Rules for Participation

To enter the competition, please email konkurs@piap.lukasiewicz.gov.pl by 31 January 2023:

• APPLICATION FORM including an abstract (no more than 1 page) showing the innovation and originality of the thesis,
• filled in by one of the indicated persons: thesis supervisor/tutor/reviewer/faculty dean/associate dean/faculty tutor FEEDBACK FORM.
• a digital copy of the thesis (PDF file),
• a digital multimedia presentation (up to 20 slides) (PDF file).

Please make a note on the envelope “Thesis Competition”, include a printed copy of the APPLICATION FORM and the FEEDBACK FORM and send to: Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – Przemysłowy Instytut Automatyki i Pomiarów PIAP, Al. Jerozolimskie 202, 02-486 Warsaw.

Prizes

The theses will be assessed in three categories: doctoral thesis, master’s thesis and engineering thesis. The members of the competition committee will vote for the winners by secret ballot. The prizes will be awarded for individual and team research. For team research, the prize will be distributed equally among all team members. The amount of prizes in this year’s “Young Innovators” competition is as follows:

• doctoral thesis category: 1st prize – PLN 3,500, 2nd prize – PLN 2,500,
• master’s thesis category: 1st prize – PLN 3,000, 2nd prize – PLN 2,000,
• engineering thesis category: 1st prize – PLN 2,500, 2nd prize – PLN 1,500,

According to the Terms & Conditions, awards may be distributed in other ways. 

Result announcement

The results of the competition will be announced on 7 March 2023 during the 27th AUTOMATION conference to be held at the headquarters of Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP in Warsaw. The authors of the selected competition works will be able to present them at the AUTOMATION 2023 conference.

Competition Committee

• Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk, BEng, PhD, DSc (Chair of the Committee) – Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences,
• Stanisław Kaczanowski, BEng, PhD – Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP,
• Małgorzata Kaliczyńska, BEng, PhD (secretary) – editorial team of ‘Measurements Automation Robotics’ quarterly,
• Prof. Andrzej Masłowski, BEng, PhD, DSc – Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
• Prof. Zbigniew Nahorski, BEng, PhD, DSc – Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences,
• Assoc. prof. Mariusz Olszewski, BEng, PhD, DSc – Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology,
• Roman Szewczyk, Prof. D.Eng. – Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology,
• Prof. Cezary Zieliński, BEng, PhD, DSc – Committee for Automation and Robotics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Organiser and sponsors

• Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP – organiser,
• The Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation, Polish Academy of Sciences – sponsor,
• Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technologies – sponsor,
• Polish Association for Measurements, Automatics and Robotics ‘POLSPAR’ – sponsor
• scientific and technical quarterly ‘Measurements Automation Robotics’ – media sponsor