European BEST Engineering Competition
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EBEC - European BEST Engineering Competition
EBEC - European BESTBoard of European Students of Technology
Board of European Students of Technology is an international, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit student organisation comprising 90 Local BEST Groups in 30 countries around Europe with more than 3000 active members....
Engineering Competition is a competition between Engineering students from all over Europe. After competing at the local level (between university students), the winners are going to the National and Regional Engineering Competitions:
- BeNeLux Engineering Competition
- Baltic Regional Engineering Competition
- Central European Engineering Competition
- French National Engineering Competition
- Italian National Engineering Competition
- Portuguese National Engineering Competition
- Polish National Engineering Competition
- Romanian National Engineering Competition
- Spanish National Engineering Competition
- Ukrainian National Engineering Competition
- Balkan Regional Engineering Competition
- Nordic Regional Engineering Competition
- Turkish National Engineering Competition
The winners of these National and Regional competitions will participate during the European final round.
Concept
EBEC consist of 4 parts:European: The ultimate satisfaction is to flow into the European finale, after winning national and regional rounds.
BEST
Board of European Students of Technology
Board of European Students of Technology is an international, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit student organisation comprising 90 Local BEST Groups in 30 countries around Europe with more than 3000 active members....
: Board Of European Students Of Technology, a non-profit, non-political voluntary worldwide students' organisation.
Engineering: The goal is to design, by innovation and creativity, and thereby engineer a solution taking into account the opposed limitations.
Competition: Several teams have to compete against each other to achieve the best result.
2009 Edition
Place : GhentDates: 2nd till 12th August 2009
EBEC (European BEST
Board of European Students of Technology
Board of European Students of Technology is an international, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit student organisation comprising 90 Local BEST Groups in 30 countries around Europe with more than 3000 active members....
Engineering Competition) was organised for the first time by Local BEST
Board of European Students of Technology
Board of European Students of Technology is an international, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit student organisation comprising 90 Local BEST Groups in 30 countries around Europe with more than 3000 active members....
Group Ghent during the 1st till the 12th of August 2009.
During this first year, more than 2300 participants have joined a local engineering competition at their university. The winners of these competitions were gathered to compete on national (or regional) level. These competitions delegated the best of the best to the European final. In total, 80 finalists from 51 universities in 18 countries were present at EBEC and made their dream come true in the ultimate final..
The goal of EBEC is to develop students in a technical and practical way.
It consisted of two parts: the Team Design and the Case study.
In the Team Design they solved a project proposed by UNEP
In the Case Study, the participants solved a real-life topics regarding e.g. climate change
All teams have 4 members and each team can only compete in one part (Team Design or Case Study).
Partners
This event was supported by UNEP, which provided a real-life problem for the team design part.EBEC was recognised as partner of the European Year of creativity and Innovation.
2010 Edition
Place : Cluj-NapocaDates: 1st till 11th August 2010
This second edition keeps both concept and general format from last year, but it developed in terms of size, number of participants and European spreading among Technical Universities.
Over 5000 students participated to local levels in 71 Universities from 31 European countries.
Over 600 semifinalists are running for a ticket to the big final and are competing in 13 National or Regional Competitions.
104 participants (52 for each category) will follow their dream in August in the Final in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and will try to prove that they are the best technical students.