2022
The 2022 Beacon of the Year Award was presented to Anna Omedes, former Director of the Museum of Natural Science in Barcelona, for her personal embodiment of the network’s values.
The winner of the Responsible and Responsive Award in 2022 was The International Centre for Life in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom for their project E=MC2 online. This was a virtual project that, with help from local families, engaged with 13,000 autistic people with science demonstrations and live chats during the UK pandemic lockdowns.
2021
The winners were announced in June at the Ecsite Conference 2022 in Heilbronn. The 2022 Beacon of the Year Award was presented to Anna Omedes, former Director of the Museum of Natural Science in Barcelona, for her personal embodiment of the network’s values. The winner of the Responsible and Responsive award in 2022 was The International Centre for Life in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom for their project E=MC2 online.
2019
In 2020, Maya Halevy (Director at The Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem) won the Beacon of the Year Award for personal embodiment of our network’s values. Copernicus Science Centre (Warsaw, Poland) and IMAGINARY (Berlin, Germany) shared the ‘Sustainable Success’ category. Copernicus won for their Young Explorers Clubs - a project whose objective is to enable children and young adults to develop collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving skills and Imaginary who promote and focus on celebrating mathematics and on engaging the general public.
2019
In 2019, 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. SciCo (Athens, Greece) won in the ‘Sustainable Success’ category for a STEM educational programme which brings together young students and educators from remote areas of Greece in order to work together out of school. And Universcience (Paris, France) got a special mention for taking a timely stance to counteract the spreading of misinformation, setting a brave example for the science engagement field.
2018
In 2018, The Tycho Brahe Planetarium (Copenhagen, Denmark) won in the ‘Sustainable Success’ category for "Made in Space", an inclusive and engaging exhibition about astrophysics. And Exploratório – Ciência Viva Science Centre of Coimbra (Portugal) won in the ‘Smart and Simple’ category for "Astronomy for Babies", a fulldome movie for babies and their family.
2017
In 2017, Ecsite celebrated science engagement excellence with two prizes: the Smart and Simple Award went to TRACES – Espace des Sciences Pierre-Gilles De Gennes (France) and the Sustainable Success Award went to Dialogue Social Enterprise (Germany). NOESIS - Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology Museum (Greece) got a Special mention for courageous leadership
2016
The 2016 Ecsite Strategic Partnership Award recognised extraordinary collaboration between an Ecsite member and an external partner whose work together enabled them to achieve goals neither of them could have reached by themselves alone.
Winner: Tekniska museet, Stockholm (Sweden) for the partnership undertaken with artist Håkan Lidbo on the interactive exhibit “Make Music with Your Whole Body”. Highly Commended: International Centre for Life, Newcastle (United Kingdom) for their partnership built with the Northumbria University.
2015
The 2015 Ecsite Creativity Award showcased creative solutions in science engagement and communication.
Winner: Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo (Norway) for TING, “a participatory, immersive exhibition experience for exploring the complex relationships between technology and democracy.”