Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS) is an annual weeklong event for young international scientists, arranged in connection with the Nobel festivities by the SIYSS Committee of the Swedish Federation of Young Scientists. The history of SIYSS dates back to 1976 when the first seminar was organized by the Swedish Federation of Young Scientists, with inspiration from

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in USA. Turning out a great success, the SIYSS program has continued, combining the encounter with Swedish science and the

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Awarding Ceremonies with an intense social program ever since then. The program aims to promote international understanding and friendship, bringing together young people from all over the world with similar interests. The participants are selected in different ways; some are winners of national science fairs, others represent organizations for young scientists or are selected by merit at their home universities. Whatever their background, they all have two things in common: a great interest in natural sciences and a curiosity for other cultures and people. Following the

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the program was - for the first time in its history - completely digital.

SIYSS Committee

The seminar and the social program is organized by a committee of volunteers, which is recruited by the Swedish Federation of Young Scientists.

Previous committees

2019: Sara Svanberg, Emma Svedenblad, Karin Cederberg, Marina Peltonen, Tintin Torin, Lisa Weyhenmeyer, Emanuel Enberg, Avital Cherednik, Julia Reinius, Virág Angyal, Elizabeth Vaisbourd, Emma Pettersson 2020: Emma Svedenblad, Johanna Lidholm, Virág Angyal, Dina Lerjevik, Najma Omar, Tintin Torin, Emanuel Enberg

Participating countries

Scientists from the following countries have participated in the SIYSS as of 2009: *

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

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Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

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Also, every year winners of the

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and the

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and Expociencias Mexico participate in the event.

Previous participants

2019: Flórián Vámosi, Adrien Jathe, Juliana Davoglio Estradioto, Nikolai Tiedemann, Shunyu Yao, Timo Hoffman, Shicheng Hu, Youngjoon Han, Adam Kelly, Elena Su, Aaron Coe, Malin Mueller, June Park, Simon Scholtz, Dionne Argyropoulos, Johan Nordstrand, Yee Lin Tan, Aleksei Beliakov, Felix Christian Sewing, Alex Korocencev, Taiyo Ishikawa, Fumika Moria, Ariel Ben Dor, Sophya Vershinina, Patricio Moscoso Ramirez 2020: Christopher Ong Xianbo, Lihuang Ding, Mengyang Li, Chenxi Zeng, Luciana Marconi, Cynthia Chen, Hannah Nelson, Cédric Willemin, John Migliore, Annie Ostojic, Lillian Petersen, MinJae Kim, Martin Morales Trejo 2022: Benjamin Clegg, Konrad Basse Fisker, Jueun Sim, Emirhan Kurtulus, Romane Schönholzer, Rebecca Bächler, Héctor Martinez-Luna, Noelia Ares Boveda, Jordan Partington, Jonas Simonsen, Meda Surdokaité, Bertram Madsen, Saloni Kwatra, Joshua Shunk, Asmi Kumar, Charmain Williams, Hassan Aftab Sheikh, Sinan Deveci, Botond Mészáros, Jim Allansson, Ishaan Lohia, Stefanie Hövermann, Xiaoqing Sun 2023: Isabel Esain Garcia, Kanghyeon Kim, Daniel Levin, Kevin Zhu, Raul Acosta Murillo, Bastian Auer, Dániel Viczián, Woojin Park, Leemen Chan, Brandon de Greef, Xiaoyan Dai, Maksymilian Gozdur, Jan Philipp Birmanns, Luca Seth Charlier, Jan Adrian Kamm, Mariana Reis, Alexander Plekhanov, Clément Vovard

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