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SEVILLE 1992

Hendrik Kupper 

Frithjof Kupper 

Environmental relevance of heavy

Martin Spiller

DE

metal substituted chlorophylls

Oliver Trapp

DE

Study on the effect of a chelator on yeast

Anders Skov

DK 

The bent perspective

Green toad (Bufo Viridis)

Martin Hesselsoe

DK

in the great belt

Jean Byrne

Population dynamics of a thistle 

Elizabeth Dowling

IE

predator: Terellia Serratulae

Dominik Zeiter 

Ewald Amherd

Reinhard Fubber

CH

Graphtal plants varieties of trees

BERLIN 1993

Abiological expedition to the rainforests 

Henrik Mouritsen

DK

of the Philippines

Lars Knudsen 

Droppy, the computer controlled 

Peter Andersen

DK

intravenous drip feed

Albert Barmettler

Gunther Ederer

AT

An alarm processing system

The minimum overlap problem 

Jan Haugland

NO

of Paul Erdos

Rodger Toner Donal Keane

IE

Mate selection by a male crustacean

Maria Salvany Gonzalez

Antoni Camprubi I Cano

The geological mapping 

Fidel Costa Rodrigez

ES

of a Neollithic mine

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In accordance with the President’s Decree, Bauman

Moscow State Technical University has been included in

the State List of valuable objects of the Russian

Federation peoples’ cultural heritage.

The 20th century witnessed the creation of a number

of institutes and research centers on the basis of some

Faculties of the BMSTU. These are: the Moscow

Aviation Institute, the Moscow Power Engineering

Institute, the Moscow State Textile Institute, the

Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering, the

Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, the Moscow

Architectural Institute, the Moscow Technological

Institute for Food Industry, the Central

Aerohydrodynamics Research Institute, the National

Research Institute of Aviation Materials, the Research

Institute of Automobile Engines and others.

Today, the Bauman University counts nearly 18

thousand students and 4,5 thousand Professors and

teachers including 450 Doctors of Sciences and about

3000 Candidate of Sciences. More than 750

postgraduates are doing the postgraduate course in 83

scientific specializations of the University. There are 22

Doctorate Dissertation Councils and 25 Candidate

Dissertation Councils in 62 scientific specializations.

There are 15 educational faculties and 7 research

centers at the University. The Faculties are:

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“Radio-Electronics and Laser Devices”

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“Information Theory and Control Systems”

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“Mechanical Engineering Technologies”

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“Robotics and Complex Automation”

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“Biomedical Technologies”

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“Power Engineering”

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“Special Mechanical Engineering”

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“Fundamental Science”

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“Engineering Business and Management”

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“Social Science and Humanities”

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“Aerospace Engineering”

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“Optical Electronic Instrument Building”

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“Radio Engineering”

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“Instrument Making”

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“Rocket and Space Engineering and Technologies”

The Bauman University teaches deaf students in its

Teaching Centre on Deafness.

The Rector of the University, Prof. I. B. Fedorov is a

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of

Sciences.

The history of Bauman Moscow State Technical University,

whose long-standing traditions remained unshaken by

any political storms, is rooted in the remote past.  The old

stone-walled buildings of the former regal palace keep the

noble spirit of the Russian Technical School, famous

throughout the world for its eminent engineers, working

in various areas of industry and possessing impetuous

imagination and the ability to make a reality of their ideas.

Since the times of Vladimir Shukhov the philosophy of

many University’s alumni has been “Devise on your own,

construct on your own, test on your own”. Creators of the

helicopter and diesel locomotive, the wind tunnel and jet

airliner, the transfer machine and cathode-ray tube and

many more first specimens of engineering science studied

and worked within the precincts of the Bauman

University. Inspired professors, a host of devices and

machinery in classrooms, well-outfitted laboratories, the

University’s own forge, foundry, fitting and other

workshops have helped to put into practice the most

daring projects.

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LUXEMBOURG 1994

The ecology of the common 

Oliver Kruger

DE

buzzard and goshawk

Eike Lau

DE

Internal addresses in the Mandelbrot set

Jane Feehan

IE

The Calluna Case-Carrier

Christian Krause

DK

Telephone break-in security

Henrik Str_m

NO

An anti-boot virus program

Samuel Schaer

CH 

Supersonic plasma rings

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE 1995

Sven Siegle

DE

Natural pulping or paper from straw

Brian Fitzpatrick

Plants can tell us when they

Shane Markey

IE

need a drink of water

Christopher Mead

Radio waves from comet 

Matthew Taylor

GB

Shoemaker-Levy 9

HELSINKI 1996

A car ice-detection system based 

Tobias Kippenberg

DE

on electromagnetic waves

Yann Ollivier

FR

Flexibility of an articulate lattice

Wouter Couzijn

NL

“Locator”, a self-positioning robot

MILAN 1997

Eike Hubner

DE

Permanent self-conducting polymers

Fiona Fraser

Ciara McGoldrick

Unravelling the secrets of the 

Emma McQuillan

IE

preservation of Europe's bog bodies

Christoph Lippuner

The digestive system 

Antoine Wuthrich

CH

of carnivorous plants

PORTO 1998

Gabor Bernath

HU

ScanGuru: the 3D scanner

Paul Pak

Peter Weilenmann

AT

The virtual blind man's cane

Robert Carney

Yellowing of alkyd-based 

Matthew Tomas

GB

paints in the dark

THESSALONIKI 1999

Sarah Flannery

IE

Cryptography: a new algorithm vs. the RSA

Sverrir Gudmundsson

Pall Melsted

Tryggvi Thorgeirsson

IS

The galaxy cluster MS1621 +2640

Estimation of urban pollution using 

Michal Ksiazkiewicz

PL

Epiphytic Lichens

AMSTERDAM 2000

New Finds of dinosaur tracks 

Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki 

PL

in the Holy Cross Mountains 

Joanne Daniel

Gemma Dawson

Ally Wilkie

GB

Designing a disposable sample device

The monitoring and protection 

Nickoloz Tchankoshvili 

GE

of bats in Georgia 

BERGEN 2001

Thomas Aumeyr

CURE - Controlled Ultraviolet 

Thomas Morocutti

AT

Radiation Equipment

Sebastian Abel

DE

Cloud

Characteristics of Azole 

drug resistance 

James Lee Mitchell

GB

in candida tropicalis

VIENNA 2002

Special wings and ground effect 

Pawel Piotrowski

DE

for efficient transportation

Martin Etzrodt

The slime mold physarum 

Martin von der Helm

DE

as a model organism for biotesting

Comparing the oxidiser/fuel 

ratio and heat released from 

Lauri Kauppila

FI

rocket fuel combustion

BUDAPEST  2003

Jana Ivanidze

DE

pH sensitive GFP mutant

Low-cost scanning tunneling 

Uwe Treske

DE

microscope

Efficiency enhancement 

Gabor Nemeth

HU

of plasma loudspeakers

DUBLIN 2004

Martin Knobel

Gerhard Schony

Breakthrough in the manufacturing 

Florian Grossbacher

AU

of condenser microphones

Improving the method 

Charlotte Strandkvist

DK

of synthesizing antidepressants

Ultrasonic detector for gas

Mario Chemnitz

DE

chromatrography

The “Step into the Future” programme was initiated by

Moscow State Technical University named after

Bauman and has been carried out since 1991 with

active participation of universities, research institutes,

schools, youth creative centres, industry organizations.

The Scientific Supervisor of the programme is the

Rector of the Bauman University, a Corresponding

Member of  the Russian Academy of Sciences, 

Igor Borisovich Fedorov.

The Bauman Univesity being the key institution of the

Russian higher education system is at the same time the

head of the Association of Russian Technical

Universities. BMSTU is a world-famous University that

educates engineers for leading Russian scientific organi-

zations and industry enterprises in the high-tech sphere

of space engineering and mechanical engineering, 

and graduates over 2500 highly qualified specialists

every year.

Addressing the laureates of the “Step into the Future”

programme the Russian President Vladimir

Vladimirovich Putin pointed out: “Our country is rich in

talents – those who possess the creative potential,

those who can think and build. And the main objective

today is to combine the results of your scientific

strivings with practical needs of industry, which – I am

sure – will allow to largely solve the problems our

economy is currently facing”.

The “Step into the Future” programme is aimed at

finding talented youth all over Russia, promotes to

realize their talents, and supports their researches.

About 700 scientific-vocational events are held

yearly as a part of the programme for school pupils

and students over the territory of the Russian

Federation that occupies 10 time zones from

Kaliningrad on the West to Anadyr on the East, and

from Murmansk on the north to Derbent on the

South. Approximately 150,000 young citizens of

Russia are involved into the “Step into the Future”

activities, with over 10,000 participants living in

remote towns and villages.

Over 5 thousand scientists and specialists supervise the

research works of the “Step into the Future” participants

devoted to the topics of current concern in the field of

engineering, natural, and social-humanitarian sciences.

The leading Russian scientists are delegated yearly to the

remote regions to conduct educational work with young

people which is organized as tutorials, lectures, research

projects. They are also to carry out methodical work with

teacher and train professional tutors.

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“Step into the Future”

Russian Scientific and Social Programme 

for Young People and Schoolchildren 

In 1830 Emperor Nicolas I fulfilling the will of his

mother, Empress Maria Fyodorovna, signed The Statute

of Moscow Vocational School. At that time the School

was intended only for boys, the orphans of Moscow

Foundling Hospital, which was established by

Catherine II. At first the skills students were trained in,

included shoemaking and tailoring, which soon were

replaced with benchwork, lathe work, bookbinding,

engraving, casting, blacksmithing and other skills

requiring special training and equipment. The

institution was “under the direct patronage of Their

Imperial Majesties”, this guardianship meaning a lot for

its development.

Situated in Nemetskaya Sloboda (the Settlement for

foreign people) and described in Leo Tolstoy’s War and

Peace, in connection with the appeal of Emperor

Alexander I to Moscow’s aristocrats and merchants to

defend the motherland against Napoleon, the palace

itself built by J. Quarenghi and M. Kazakov was a treasure

to Moscow. Unfortunately, in 1812, two months after

that patriotic assembly, the palace burnt down.

The walls of the palace were once again erected, this

time by D. Zhilyardi, another famous architect of

Moscow. The building created then, was meant to be a

boarding school resembling a cadet school, where

mechanical arts were to flourish. Even now a splendid

white-stone sculptural group by I. Vitali over the main

entrance to BMSTU is an eloquent demonstration of the

significance attached to craftsmanship. The central

figure of the sculpture is Goddess of Wisdom Minerva,

the patroness of arts and science.

Minerva herself is an expressive symbol of this public

building, indicating its predestination for the years to

come: young people competent in technologies left its

walls to work in industry, civil engineering, science…

First, these were skilled workmen and learned craftsmen;

later, when the trade school was transformed into the

Imperial Moscow Technical School, they were

mechanical engineers and processing engineers; and

now young people are trained to be engineering

managers, design engineers, researchers (after an extra

seventh year) and many more categories of engineers.

The most brilliant graduates of the University – Vladimir

G. Shukhov, the founder of oil industry and inventor of

metal-mesh structures, who belonged to the first

generation of engineers, and Sergei P. Korolev belonging

to the generation of Soviet engineers, both authored

ingenious engineering ideas. While Vladimir Shukhov, a

young graduate of the Imperial Technical School, was

working on the problem of oil storing and

transportation at an oil company and trying to solve a

complicated task of water-supply system for Moscow,

Nikolai Ye. Zhukovsky, a great scientist, wrote about him,

“In his youth Vladimir was keen on theoretical

mechanics and wanted to devote his outstanding gifts to

the study of celestial mechanics. Life turned out quite

different and he had to work on earthly mechanics,

which he endowed with his profound ideas and

thorough mathematical treatment”.

Upon graduation, Sergei Korolev, another eminent

University alumnus, who held that “the greatest

satisfaction comes from a flying machine one has

created”, joined Fridrikh A. Tsander’s famous GIRD, the

abbreviation meaning Group for the Study of Rocket

Propulsion, the Russian version of which was wittily

interpreted as “Group of Engineers Working for Free”.

These enthusiasts created the first Soviet space rocket!

The University’s alumni were taught to look towards

the future. Long before the golden age of Russian

aircraft construction, a student of the then Imperial

Technical School A. Tupolev had been building and

testing one sailplane after another, while a student

B. Yuryev had been designing a helicopter, other

students being engaged in constructing speed-boats,

airplanes, snow-planes. All this work was supervised by

Professor N. Ye. Zhukovsky. I. Sikorsky, who later

became a noted American aircraft designer and

manufacturer, also worked in this youth design bureau.

The designer of the first Russian TV sets, S. I. Katayev

studied at Moscow Higher Technical School at the

same time as the designer of spaceships S. P. Korolev.

He demonstrated the same deep theoretical

knowledge and selfless work in a students’ scientific

electrical engineering society. Complete absence of

vanity resulted in everybody’s belief that it was

Americans who invented television, which was often

the case with our great engineers, for example,

Vladimir G. Shukhov, S. A. Lebedev, S. P. Korolev and

S. I. Katayev’s messmate, is referred to as “the founder

of the Soviet high-performance computer”. His

graduation project was a serious scientific work on the

reliability theory in electrical engineering. Being

a respectable academician, he willingly worked with

a soldering iron to make a circuit or assembly unit.

This shows the style of the old institution, whose

scientists, while having aristocratic manners, considered

it quite natural to have machine tools and other

mechanisms at home and willingly occupied themselves

with manual labour.

Bauman Moscow 

State Technical University

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Every year the “Step into the Future” programme

organizes and sends youth scientific delegations from

Russia to such authoritative international events as the

European Union Contest for Young Scientists (since

1997), London international Youth Science Forum (since

1996), International Science and Engineering Fair Intel

ISEF (с 1996г.), International and European scientific

fairs, organized by MILSET (since 1996) and others.

Within the framework of the programme there are also

science-method seminar “Science in School”, different

pedagogical symposia. Collected works of young

researchers, catalogues of youth science and

engineering fairs, and guidance manuals are published.

The “Step into the Future” press-centre along with

regional press-services prepare and issue in mass media

over 600 reports concerning youth scientific creative

work every year.

The efforts of the “Step into the Future” programme are

supported by local administrations and national clerisy,

which is the consequence of the orientation towards

Russian culture, education, and science, which in turn

nowadays represent an important stabilizing factor that

provides harmonious development of the Russian

society.  It has been repeatedly noted that constructive

and creative work of youth organized within the

programme influences the development of positive

trends in the psychology of the society, creates

conditions for the social adaptation as well as

employment of the young, and the decrease of negative

trends among the young generation. 

The “Step into the Future” programme has worked out,

theoretically based, and put into action on the territory of

the Russian Federation new educational technologies

based on the methods peculiar to scientific cognition and

involve a wide range of vocational applications for

educational knowledge. Within the “Step into the Future”

a multilevel and geographically spread system of scientific

training of youth in the new social and economic

conditions has been created; integrated educational

systems has been built all over the country that unite

various education institutions – schools, universities,

technical secondary schools, specialized schools under

research institutes, industrial or cultural organizations, all

of which involve young people into constructive and

creative work. In accordance with the decree of the

Russian Federation (#573 dated May 20, 1998) the “Step

into the Future” programme is a part of governmental

policy in the sphere of peopleware of Russian science.

While actively participating in solving current problems

of the country, the “Step into the Future” programme

remains first of all the initiative of professionals that is

supported by people from different social strata who

wish to jointly develop professional and educational

spread of the country and to upbring the young

generation. This relies upon the basis of professional

co-operation and mutual aid of people of different

generations, while the aim is social and economic

progress of the Russian Federation.

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Approximately 200 patents have been registered recently

by the participants of the programme, along with over

150 certificates for useful models and almost 4000

published scientific works. Through its regional

representative organizations the programme supports the

activity of striving youth organizations, such as scientific

and vocational student societies, student design bureaus

and research laboratories, ecological teams and creative

workshops. Each regional office of the programme is a

complex that incorporates schools, higher education

institutions, youth creative centres, research institutes,

industry enterprises. Among the establishing

organizations there are usually regional governing

institutions for education, science, and youth politics.

In 1995 the “Step into the Future” programme

organized a Russian polytechnic society for young

people, which nowadays has 24 regional offices that

involve over 90 thousand students, school pupils, young

scientists, and specialists. It is included into the National

Registry of Associations for Children and Youth that is

kept by the Ministry of Education and Science of the

Russian Federation. 

The group of actions of the “Step into the Future”

programme works on urban and rural, regional and

federal levels. It is organized as a system of particularized

actions of different and various complexity levels.

Among them are conferences and exhibitions, school-

seminars and contests, competitions and entries, all of

which promote scientific and learning activity and en-

courage the innovative way of thinking with young

people of different ages.

The main federal level events of the “Step into the

Future” are spread over participants’ age groups in the

following manner.

For the pupils of 5-9 forms there are:

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Russian science school-seminar “Academy 

of the Young”;

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Russian contest for young researches 

“Step into the Future, Junior”;

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Eurasian youth science festival “Step into 

the Future, Baikal”.

For the senior pupils and junior years students there are:

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Russian youth science and engineering 

exhibition “Step into the Future”;

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National science conference for the young 

researchers “Step into the Future”.

For senior students, young scientists and specialists there are:

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International Congress for students, 

post-graduates, and young scientists 

“Youth and Science – the third Millennium”;

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Interuniversity exhibition “Polytechnics”.

“Step into the Future”

Russian Scientific and Social Programme 

for Young People and Schoolchildren 

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Nurturing a new generation of scientists is essential to

improving the quality of life of European citizens and

enhancing the continent’s economic competitiveness.

This includes strengthening scientific education and

careers and involving young people in scientific

discovery both inside and outside formal education. 

For the past two decades, the European Union, via its

Framework Programmes, has had a policy of

supporting science and technology aimed essentially at

encouraging co-operation between European

researchers.  But the European Union also  recognises

the need to start the process of integration at the grass

roots level. Therefore, the Commission is actively

supporting young people’s interest in science and is

promoting European cooperation in the fields of

education and training. 

The European Union Contest for Young Scientists

rewards and celebrates Europe’s best young scientific

talent. It is a good example of an activity that serves not

only to encourage interest in science but also to promote

exchanges among young people from across Europe. 

The participants in the Contest have repeatedly

expressed the positive impact of this aspect of the

Contest; they believe that the EU Contest opened up

the gateway to Europe concerning their careers and

fostered a strong interest in learning European

languages. The Contest has been a useful tool in the

development of a pan-European scientific

community and over the years it has generated

excitement and has gone some way to popularising

science among the young. 

Apart from the EUCYS, the Directorate-General for

Research has introduced several other initiatives to

encourage young people into the sciences.

The Descartes Prize was established in 2000 as the

major European science prize for outstanding

collaborative research and is open to any scientific field.

Its international dimension once again raises awareness

of the scientific community and its work. 

The  Descartes Prize aims to encourage the best

researchers and teams to become involved in and

committed to European research, and to increase the

visibility of outstanding research findings produced by

European researchers. The prize recognises the

collaborative nature of research that is at the heart of

any major scientific breakthrough. In 2005, 76

international research teams are competing for the

prestigious award. 

Last year the European Commission introduced the