The awards of the Elhuyar Science Fair are distributed

2025/05/31 STEAM-Hezkuntza (Elhuyar Zientzia)

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The 2025 Elhuyar Science Fair concludes with the award ceremony held in the Arenal of Bilbao. The event, which took place at 1:00 p.m., was led by the actor Joanes Echeveste Dernet and the scientist Sara Alicante Martínez. The awards have been presented by the sponsors of the Elhuyar Science Fair and members of Elhuyar.

These were the winning projects:

• Miguel de Unamuno at the IES “JEIKIT: Professor Ander Arantzamendi of the project “Autonomous System for Mobility Problems” has been given the opportunity to participate in Science in Action.

• The project “Application that helps to avoid Lyme disease” of the Elgoibar Neighborhood group has received the opportunity to participate in the Galiciencia fair.

The awards were presented by Amaia Esquisabel Alegria, Director of Science Policy of the Basque Government.

• The “Automatic Hanger” project of the Barrio de Laudio team has received the opportunity to participate in the Science in the Street fair.

• The project “Trapping the Asian wasp” of the Larramendi College of Mungia has received the opportunity to participate in the Open Science fair.

The awards were presented by Isabel Sarrionandia-Ibarra Fernández, Head of the Business Promotion Service of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia.

• The project “Restoration of Renaissance murals with Artificial Intelligence” of the Lasalle school in Beasain has received the opportunity to participate in the fair Vilaciencia.
• The “Renewable Car” project of the Andra Mari School in Etxarri Aranatz has received the opportunity to participate in the Exporecerca Jove fair.

• The “NEXUS” project of the IES Joan Coromines School (Valencia) has received the opportunity to participate in the National Portuguese Show.

The awards were presented by Kontxi Claver Zurro, Councillor for Economic Development, Trade, Tourism and Employment of the City Council of Bilbao.

• The project “Antibiotic effect of fungi” of the Amazabal IES school in Leitza has received the opportunity to participate in the Exporecerca Jove fair.

• The project “Autonomous System for Mobility Problems” of the IES Miguel de Unamuno has received the opportunity to participate in the Feria de Sevilla.

• The project “Can the situation of the elderly be improved without medication?” of the IES Biurdana in Pamplona has received the opportunity to participate in the fair I Giovani e le Science in Milan.

The awards were presented by Jon Abril Olaetxea, General Coordinator of Elhuyar.

Elhuyar Science Fair

This year’s Elhuyar Science Fair lasted four days, from May 28th to 31st, and took place in the Arenal of Bilbao. There were 160 projects on display and 640 young people from 60 schools participated. In addition to young people from schools in the Basque Country, there have also been winners of national and international fairs: Nine teams arrived.

The aim of the Elhuyar Science Fair is to offer young people scientific experiences and to promote and disseminate scientific culture, not only at this fair held in El Arenal, but also throughout the year. The Fair is attended not only by young students, but also by research centres and universities in the Basque Country. It is also worth mentioning the annual commitment shown by all of them to this project: at the beginning of the academic year, 94 researchers (among them 51 women) from universities and technology centers registered to work with students, and during the fair days 73 researchers (among them 45 women) have been working as evaluators.

The Elhuyar Science Fair initiative, organized by Elhuyar, is supported by the Department of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government, FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology), the City Council of Bilbao, the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, the Government of Navarre and Erabi.