The winners were announced on 29 October at the Ecsite Directors Forum held online by Technopolis, the Flemish Science Centre.
Beacon of the Year
The Beacon of the Year Award celebrates inspirational individuals who have been contributing to our field and to the Ecsite network. The Award recognises innovative visionaries who are empowering and motivating their peers to reach a common goal: emboldening citizens to engage with science.
Maya Halevy (Director at The Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem) won the Beacon of the Year Award for personal embodiment of and commitment to our network’s values. She has initiated strategic programmes with the Jerusalem Municipality and with the Ministry of Education to develop infrastructure for science education as well as having been involved with a national initiative that works closely with the Ministry of Education, that seeks to put Israel among the top fifteen countries in the world for STEM education.
Sustainable Success
The Sustainable Success Award celebrates long-lasting impact: projects that embody the values of science engagement, that are visionary and socially relevant. For this Award, organisations put their own applications in or be prompted to do so by a peer who thinks their project deserves recognition.
Winner - Beacon of the Year
Maya Halevy (Director at The Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem) won the Beacon of the Year Award for personal embodiment of our network’s values.
Joint Winner - Sustainable Success
The Copernicus Science Centre (Warsaw, Poland) 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 by getting to know the world better through hands-on scientific experiments.
Joint Winner - Sustainable Success
IMAGINARY (Berlin, Germany), a non-profit organisation who promote and focus on celebrating mathematics and on engaging the general public to experience and play with current research of mathematics with their project IMAGINARY exhibition.
The Jury
News
29 October 2020
23 September 2019