European BEST Engineering Competition
EBEC - European BEST 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:
- Belgian 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
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, 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 : Ghent
Dates: 1st till 12th August 2009
EBEC (European BEST Engineering Competition) will be organised for the first time by Local BEST Group Ghent during the 1st till the 12th of August 2009. During this first year, more than 2300 participants will join a local engineering competition at their university. The winners of these competitions are gathered to compete on national (or regional) level. These competitions will delegate the best of the best to the European final. In total, 80 finalists from 51 universities in 18 countries will be present at EBEC to make their dream come true in the ultimate final.
The goal of EBEC is to develop students in a technical and practical way.
It consists of two parts: the Team Design and the Case study.
In the Team Design they will solve a project proposed by UNEP
In the Case Study, the participants will solve a real-life topic regarding climate change
Partners
This event is supported by UNEP, wich provided a real-life problem for the team design part and the city of Ghent.
EBEC was recognised as partner of the European Year of creativity and Innovation.
External links
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