Olympiad book 2012

4th INESPO 2012International Environment & Sustainability Project Olympiad

Olympiad BookChallenge yourself with INESPO

43 Countries - 150 Projects - 313 Students

June 9 - 15@ NEMO Science Centre Amsterdam &

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

ColophonPublished by:

Cosmicus FoundationHofplein 333011 AJ RotterdamThe Netherlands

Editor & Editorial DesignA.M. Meerkerk

Printed by Deniz at Rotterdam, 2012

Contact detailsContact person: Mr. A. ElmaagacPhone number: +31 (0)10 411 75 74 E-mail address: [email protected] adress: Postbus 24102 3007 DC Rotterdam The Netherlands

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Organizers

Partners

Sponsors

We welcome you at the

4th INESPO 2012Challenge yourself!

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IndexINESPO welcomes you! P. 6 Program of the Olympiad Opening ceremony National Olympiad P. 7 Closing ceremony National Olympiad P. 8 Opening ceremony International Olympiad P. 9 Closing ceremony P. 10

Speakers National Olympiad P. 11 International Olympiad P. 12 Jury P. 14

Awards P. 19

International projects P. 20

Dutch projects P. 24

International project abstracts P. 26

Dutch project abstracts P. 61

Organizers P. 76

Affiliated Full Partners P. 77

Authorized Affiliated National Coordinators P. 78

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It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 4th INESPO 2012, thé internationale sustainability olym-piad for students! We are very happy to may welcome more than 300 students from 43 different countries.

INESPO is pleased to be able to organize an event that brings together young scientists from 43 countries and their supervisors. The event promotes the ideas of cooperation and exchange of knowledge and expe-riences, as well as it stimulates the emergence of young talents in various areas of science.

The nationale round of INESPO will take place at Science Center Nemo in Amsterdam and the interna-tional round at Utrecht University. During the exhibi-tion days almost 200 international students from 42 countries will present their projects. Besides that, about 130 Dutch students will show the public their solutions for environmental problems. A competent jury will ex-amine the projects and select the winners. There are many prizes: gold, silver and bronze medals in different categories. There will be also an audience prize and encouragement prizes.

We are very thankful that Science Center Nemo and Utrecht University are willing to act as a host this year. Utrecht University is a high qualitative university in the Netherlands that understands the need for stimulating young people to get interested in scientific reserach.

For the fourth year in a row the Cosmicus Foundation took the initiative to set up this Olympiad. The co-or-ganizers are LvDO (Learning for Sustainable Develop-ment), SME Advies (with their Globe Program) and IVN. Besides these organizations multiple partners have supported this initiative and helped organisationally and financially.

Cosmicus Foundation,

M. CeritChairman

INESPO welcomes you!Met groot genoegen heten we u welkom op de 4e INES-PO 2012, dé internationale duurzaamheidsolympiade voor scholieren! We zijn erg blij meer dan 300 scholieren vanuit 43 verschillende landen te mogen verwel-komen.

INESPO is blij in staat te zijn dit evenement te orga-niseren dat jonge wetenschappers vanuit 43 landen en hun supervisors bij elkaar brengt. INESPO promoot samenwerking en de uitwisseling van kennis en erva-ringen. Daarnaast stimuleert het de opkomst van jonge talenten in verschillende gebieden van de wetenschap.

De nationale ronde van INESPO vindt plaats in het Science Center Nemo in Amsterdam en de internatio-nale ronde op Universiteit Utrecht. Tijdens de exhibi-tiedagen lang zullen bijna 200 internationale scho-lieren vanuit 43 landen hun projecten presenteren. Daarnaast zullen ongeveer 130 Nederlandse scholie-ren hun oplossingen voor milieuproblemen laten zien aan het publiek. Een deskundige jury zal de projecten beoordelen en de winnaars kiezen. Er zijn diverse prijzen te winnen. Nederlandse leerlin-gen maken kans op het presenteren van hun project op gelijksoortige olympiades in Brazilië, de Verenigde Staten en Italië.

We zijn Science Center Nemo en Universiteit Utrecht dankbaar dat INESPO gebruik mag maken van hun fa-ciliteiten.

Voor het vierde jaar achtereen heeft Stichting Cosmi-cus het initiatief genomen tot het organiseren van deze olympiade. Daarin is zij ondersteund door de mede- organisatoren LvDO (Leren vor Duurzame Ontwikke-ling), SME Advies en IVN. Daarnaast hebben ook een groot aantal partners een bijdrage geleverd.

Stichting Cosmicus

M. CeritVoorzitter

INESPO heet je welkom!

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Opening ceremony National Olympiad

Saturday

9thJune

11.00

10.30 - 11.00 Walk in

11.00 - 12.00 Opening ceremony, headed by Liset Meddens (Dutch UN youth representative)

I. Welcome

II. Speeches III. Formal opening act

*For information about the speakers, see page 11.

12.00

Location: Science Center Nemo, Amsterdam

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Closing ceremony National Olympiad

Saturday

9thJune

16.30

16.00 - 16.30 Walk in

16.30 - 17.30 Closing ceremony, headed by Jelle de Jong (director IVN)

I. Speeches II. Award ceremony

17.30 - 18.00 Informal reception

18.00 - 20.00 Europa Cup Soccer: Netherlands-Denmark

* For information about the speakers, see page 11.

17.30

Location: Science Center Nemo, Amsterdam

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Opening ceremony International Olympiad

Monday

11th June

11.00

10.30 - 11.00 Walk in

11.00 - 12.30 Opening ceremony

I. Welcome

II. Act with participants from all participating countries

III. Speeches

IV. Formal opening act

*For information about the speakers, see page 12-13.

12.30

Location: Utrecht University, Utrecht

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16.30 - 17.30 Walk in

17.30 - 19.30 Closing ceremony

I. Cultural parade by participants II. Speeches III. Award ceremony

19.30 - 21.30 Dinner

* For information about the speakers, see page 12-13.

Closing ceremony

Thursday

14th June

17.30

19.30

Location: Utrecht University, Utrecht

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Herman Bergwerf - Dutch winner of INESPO 2011Herman Bergwerf won the first prize at INESPO 2011. He studies at the Cal-vijn College and invented a solution for the removal and recycling of huge amounts of plastic driving in the ocean.

Speakers National Olympiad

Liset Meddens - Dutch UN youth representativeLiset Meddens is a UN youth representative on Sustainable Development. She did a Master in International Development studies at the University of Wageningen.

Jelle de Jong - Director IVNJelle de Jong is director of IVN Nederland, the organization for nature and environment education, since September 2009.

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Speakers International Olympiad

Aleid Wolfsen - Mayor of city of UtrechtAleid Wolfsen (1960) has been Mayor of the city of Utrecht since January 2008. From May 2002 to January 2008 he was parliamentarian for the Labour Party (PvdA). Before that he was a judge in Amsterdam and Vice President of the Court in Haarlem.

Remco van Lunteren - Representative of Province of Utrecht Remco van Lunteren has been a representative of the Province of Utrecht since January 2010. He focuses on mobility and economic affairs.

Sjoerd Slagter - Chairman VO-raadSjoerd Slagter began his career as teacher in Philosophy and Biology. He was also part-time teaching Biology at Utrecht University. After that he became director of the ROC ASA and chairman of the central board of the Agnieten College. Until his nomination to the VO-raad (Secondary Education Council), he was Chairman of the Board of SSCO at Zwolle and surroundings.

Mirjam de Rijk - Deputy Mayor UtrechtMirjam de Rijk is a Dutch journalist, GroenLinks politician, former director of the Foundation Nature and Environment and currently Deputy Mayor for finance, economic affairs, environment and public space for Utrecht.

Roel Robbertsen - Commissioner of the Queen of Province of UtrechtRoel Robbertsen is commissioner of the Queen. In the past he was a Dutch politician and Mayor of the city of Ede.

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Fabienne Hendricks - Board member Platform Bèta TechniekFabienne Hendricks has been member of the Board of Platorm Bèta Techniek since January 2012. Besides that she is manager of the program School aan zet.

Simon Steen - Director of VBS (United Special Schools)Simon Steen is director of the Association of United Special Schools (VBS).

Teresa Kennedy - Director international division GLOBE pro-gram USATeresa J. Kennedy is a Professor of Bilingual/ELL/STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics) Education at the University of Texas at Tyler,and also directs the International Division of the GLOBE Program at UT Tylerfor the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder,Colorado.

Kathleen Ferrier - CDA ParliamentarianKathleen Ferrier studied Spanish language and literature and Development Coordination at Leiden University. After her study she worked at Chili and Brazil as Development Coordination expert. She has been a CDA (Christen Democrats) parliamentarian since 2002.

Tanja Jadnanansing - PvdA Parliamentarian Tanja Jadnanansing is a Dutch politician and former television presenter andcommunication employee. As a member of the Labour Party (PvdA) she has been an MP since June 17, 2010. She focuses on matters of higher education and science policy. Jadnanansing studied law at VU University Amsterdam.

Esther Ouwehand - PvdD Parliamentarian Esther Ouwehand has been a Dutch parliamentarian for the Party for the Ani-mals (PvdD) since November 2006.

Boris van der Ham - D66 Parliamentarian Boris van der Ham has been a Dutch parliamentarian for the Democrats (D66) since 2002. He focuses on matters of education, culture and science.

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Jury

Egbert TellegenEgbert Tellegen is a sociologist and environmental scientist. From 1976 until 1999 he was heading the Interfaculty Department of environmental science of the University of Amsterdam. Since 2006 he is teaching Sociology and En-vironment at Utrecht University.

Bas J. BlaauboerBas Blaauboer (1949) studied biology at Utrecht University and did a PhD in toxicology at the same university (1978). Presently he holds the Doeren-kamp-Zbinden Chair on “Alternatives to Animal Testing in Toxicological Risk Assessment”, which is located in the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences. His research focuses on the use of in vitro toxicology methods as tools in risk assessments.

Antoine HeideveldAntoine Heideveld studied Biology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the founder of the network Sustainable Higher Education. He is now employed at AgentschapNL in the program Learning for Sustainable Development.

Marjan Margadant Marjan Margadant-van Arcken is former professor of Environmental Educa-tion. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy. Her chair was part of the Centre for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Utrecht.

Lisette N. de Senerpont DomisDr. L.N. de Senerpont Domis got her PhD in Natural Sciences and Mathema-tics at Leiden University. She currently works as project manager research valorization at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. She is interested in ma-king ecological principles operational for aquatic ecosystem management and conservation. Together with researchers from the department and the Aquatic Ecology & Water Quality Management Group of the Wageningen University (WUR), she has initiated the Aquatic Knowledge centre Wagenin-gen or AKWA. AKWA translates state-of-the art fundamental scientific know-ledge to encompassing solutions for the complex problems water users face in the light of fast environmental changes.

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Sjoerd KeijserSjoerd Keijser graduated as an Industrial Design Engineer on the Delft Uni-versity of Technology. Since 2009 is Project Manager at Syntens Innovation-centre. Sjoerd Keijser is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly if combined. In his opinion this combination is the key to pros-perity and welfare. He advises entrepreneurs and connects them with know-ledge institutes and provides entrepreneurs the entrance to a wide network in order to help them to realize their ambitions.

Marjan W. HofkesFull professor of Environmental Economics. She has extensive research and research management experience across a number of fields. Her more re-cent work has been concerned with economics of sustainable development, environment-economy trade-offs and economic effects of floods. She is a member of the Committee on Sustainable Development of the SER.

Martha Montero-SieburthDr. Martha Montero-Sieburth is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Uni-versity of Amsterdam. She has conducted research over a span of 25 years in Latin America, the U. S., Spain, the Canary Islands and in the Netherlands with second generation Dutch Turkish and Moroccan students and Latin Americans. Her research is on immigrant integration through education and her focus in primarily on qualitative research.

David RabanDavid is an Astronomer who turned to entrepreneurship in the areas of edu-cation and mobile applications. David concentrates on developing new ap-proaches to science communication, and using innovative techniques to en-hance scientific productivity. As an internet interpreter, David is developing applications the help users solve practical every-day problems, improving their quality of life.

Judith SarneelDr. Judith Sarneel is a wetland ecologist who is currently working as a post-doc at the Netherlands institute of Ecology. Her research deals with the con-servation and restoration of freshwater habitats. She currently investigates the ecological effects of the implementation of sustainable management in Dutch wetlands.

Ward CottaarProf. dr. ir. Ward Cottaar is professor Design and Technology of Instrumenta-tion at Eindhoven University of Technology. His goal is to bring good engi-neering practices in the design of instrumentation to industry and health care: engineers should design what end users, e.g. doctors, need in very close cooperation with them. Before coming to the university Ward Cottaar had a 26 year (international) career in industry, both in the Lighting and Medical area. He was responsible for the development of some major technologies for energy saving lamps at Philips Lighting.

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Jan EmmerzaalJan Emmerzaal studied industrial design at TU-Delft. For 20 years he has had several international positions in the area of R&D of sustainable consumer pro-ducts (e.g. ATAG, Philips, Johnson Electric). He has been closely involved in the introduction of inductively cooking in Netherlands. The last years he has worked at the TU-Delft, by MicroNed and various publicprivate research consortia. Since May 2009, he is working at University of Twente. Since the beginning of 2012 is he program director for Green Energy Initiative.

Nynke KramerDr. Nynke Kramer is a lecturer/postdoctoral fellow in Toxicology at the Insti-tute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University. In her research she uses cell cultures to assess the toxicity of chemicals to humans and the environment. Nynke defended her PhD thesis in Toxicology at IRAS in 2010 and was awarded the SETAC Procter and Gamble Fellowship for doctoral re-search in Environmental Sciences. Nynke obtained her Bachelor Degree in Life Sciences at University College Utrecht in 2003 and her Masters Degree in Environmental Sciences at the University of Oxford in 2004.

Jan ApothekerJan Apotheker is connected to the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen as didactician in chemistry. He is involved in the teacher training program in chemistry and in the master in communication and education. He is coordinator of the ba-sic qualification Education for teachers of the Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences. He is a Board member of the KNCV, with education in his portfolio. He is also Secretary of the committee on chemistry education of IUPAC, Member of the division of education of EuchemS. In the past, he has been Chairman of the Dutch Department of Caretakers of the Environment and editor-in-Chief of ‘ The Global Forum on Environmental Education.

Theodoor HöngensHe is director of M + P Consulting Engineers and responsible for finance, ad-ministration and HRM. He is a senior advisor and coordinator for the market areas construction and spatial planning.

Sanne AkerboomSanne Akerboom has worked at the Amsterdam Centre for Energy issues since March 2010. The institute is part of the University of Amsterdam. In July 2010 she finished her master in public international law and in October 2011 her master in political science – conflict resolution & governance.

Robin HoenkampRobin Hoenkamp is employed as a doctoral student for the Centre for Ener-gy issues since september 2010. The institute is part of the University of Am- sterdam. Her research focuses on the protection of consumer interests in standardization of Smart Grids.

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Aldert HanemaaijerAldert Hanemaaijer has almost 20 years of experience in the field of policy ori-ented research on a wide range of environmental issues, with a special focus on the relation between environment and economy. With his economic back-ground, he has worked as a project leader for integrative studies for the last 10 years and is used to work with people with various backgrounds, for example in Dutch Environmental Balances and the Second Sustainability Outlook for the Netherlands.

Irene DankelmanIrene Dankelman is the director of IRDANA Advice on gender and sustainable development, and lecturer at the Radboud University of Nijmegen where her work includes integrating sustainable development issues into the curricu-lum.

Gijsbert KorevaarHe is project leader and programme manager of the MSc Programme ‘Indus-trial Ecology’ and has extended experience in collaboration with and within several universities, contacts with companies, lecturing, management of courses and supervision of students. From this positon, he is also responsible coordinator for the Minor ‘Sustainable Development’ within all TU Delft BSc Programmes. His specializations are research in chemical process enginee-ring and biotechnology, teaching at MSc and PhD level, design methodology development, management of interdisciplinary projects and sustainability.

Umit KoycuUmit Koycu is lecturer at the Technical University Delft.

Jan BergstraJan A. Bergstra is a Dutch computer scientist. His work has focussed on logic and the theoretical foundations of software engineering, especially on for-mal methods for system design. Bergstra held posts at the Institute of Ap-plied Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Leiden (1976–82), and the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Programming and Software Engineering at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam and, at the same time, Professor of Applied Logic at Utrecht University.

Caroline VerduinCaroline Verduin is secretary at Youth Environment Active (JMA).

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Dirk Minne VisDirk Minne Vis, 1959, MBA graduated in 1994., business School Nederland. Current position is program director of Syntens, Innovation centre Nether-lands. Young people are the future, new ideas, new rules and new business contribute to contemporary challenges. Be the change you want to be is an way of live, an attitude for a sustainable live for you and me. If you’re willing to learn, you won’t be making the same stupid mistakes your predecessors did. Be optimistic, ’love your neighbor as you love yourself’ and have fun.

Marjolijn ChristianenIrene Dankelman is the director of IRDANA Advice on gender and sustainable development, and lecturer at the Radboud University of Nijmegen where her work includes integrating sustainable development issues into the curricu-lum.

Reyer GerlaghIn 1999 Reyer Gerlagh received his PhD in economics. Between September 2006 and 2009, he held the chair in Environmental Economics at Economics,School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Reyer Gerlagh is nowProfessor at Tilburg University and associate editor of ERE and Energy Eco-nomics, and member of the editorial board of JEEM.

Peter SlootHe studied M.Sc. Chemistry and M.Sc. Physics at 1983. At 1988 he has achieved his PhD Computer Science. He studied the ‘natural information processing’ in complex systems by computational modeling and simulation as well as through formal methods. His work is applied to a large variety of disciplines with a focus on -but not limited to- Biomedicine. Currently he leads two largeEU projects: ViroLab and DynaNets and supervise research from various NIH,NSF and NWO and Royal Academy projects.

Maarten de RijkeMaarten de Rijke is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Am-sterdam. He studied philosophy (MSc 1989) and mathematics (MSc 1990) and wrote a PhD thesis, defended in 1993, on extended modal logics. He leads a research group on intelligent information access, at the interface of information retrieval, language technology and semistructured data and is a strong believer in task-driven research, mixing theory, experiment and appli-cations. His specializations are language modeling, user generated content, expertise retrieval, entity search, social media analysis, semantic search, re-trieval beyond facts, documents and ranked lists.

Liset Meddens - Dutch UN youth representativeLiset Meddens is a UN youth representative on Sustainable Development. She did a Master in International Development studies at the University of Wageningen.

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AwardsInternational awards

Prize Number of projects Total prize sum in Euros Prize sum in Euros per project

1st 5 2,500 500

2nd 5 1,500 300

3rd 5 750 150

4th 10 None Certificate and medal

National awards

Prize Number of projects

Description Specifications

1st Prize 1 Participation in Intel Isef (USA)* 1 week, meant for 3 students and 1 supervisor

2nd Prize 1 Participation in ISWEEEP (USA)* 1 week, meant for 2 students and 1 supervisor

3rd Prize 1 Participation in MOSTRATEC (Brazil)* 1 week, meant for 2 students and 1 supervisor

1st Special Prize 1 Participation in FAST (Italy)* 4 days, meant for 2 students and 1 supervisor

2nd Special Prize 1 Participation in London Science Forum (UK)* 2 weeks, meant for 1 student (min. 17 years old)

3rd Special Prize 1 Nomination for U4Energy (Belgium)* Chance to be invited to the European Awarding Ceremony 2012 as one of the five European winners of the Category ‘Special Prize’. Meant for 2 students and 1 supervisor.

Encouragement Award

3 Certificate and medal ---

* All national awards are mentioned for participation in other olympiads to represent the Netherlands. The awards include flight tickets, accommodation, meals** and local transport**. The awards are not redeemable for cash, nor transferrable or refundable for any other events.** As far as provided by the host of the event.

Audience awards

Number of projects Participants Prize sum in Euros per project

1 National 250

1 International 250

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International projects AlbaniaMario Istrefi Rei KociuReuse waste, save the energy, save the worldRei BakoProducing an environment friendly skateboardArjana FetaFirdeus KercikuCleaning the environment from the waste of factoriesDiana AliuEra GoricaCleaning the sea from the oil slicks by using sunflower stalks

ArgentinaAlvin AlvarezFrancisco Abraham Jorquera CaceresProject B.A.R

AustriaHannes GamperAlexander FegerWind power

Azerbaijanİsmayil VeliyevAli AllahverdiyevEvaluation and to being composted of vinasse a ferSakhavat HeydarliVeli ValizadeProtection from the injuries of me-tal nanaduts and deriving benefits from their properties

Bosnia and HerzegovinaVildana IsakovicNejra StetaPurification of heavy metal by ba-nana peelAmina TalicUse the microbial fuel cell to create electricity from wasteHata BotonjicAida HodzicMicron water cleaning

BrazilVictor ThutPhotobioreactor for carbon absorp-tion: an equipment for the neutra-lization of CO2 emissions in domes-tic environmentsCarolina BordinhãoMartina DietrichLiming microbiological degadationFelipe dos Santos MachadoECO FUN - Ecological playground built with tubes of toothpaste

BurundiKelhia Mutonyi Nzigamye EmeryCreate green landNoella Muco Alain Ntibategera Children of Rural Bujumbura

CambodiaSokly NyBiogas production from organic wastesMoniroth NouPagna VaSolar cooker

CroatiaVedran GojkovićAnja ĐokićEcological way of producing electri-city using Joe’s cellsIvan RagužDomagoj MarićThe energy value of wood and bio-massZvonimir KovačevNikolina MaglićProtection against earthquake

EgyptSanna DarwishRecycling Water

EstoniaKaspar MölderThe birds wintering in 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 in Kuressaare

FranceSarah BernetAlexandre LonghiAtmospheric dust trackerRoxanne VivienGuillaume FédorCalisph ‘Air: Head in the CloudsSéraphin LescanneCorentin SabléAéroatmoluxEmilie FontanelJosian BeneschiEuropean year of water: creation of a game

Hong KongChun Wai LoMulti-purpose underwater robotics

HungaryKata Balázs-PiriKrisztian SzécsiThe effect of thermal water on the water of Dong-ér Canal

IndonesiaMuhammad Fikko FadjrimiratnoMuhammad Harliansyah Wasis WildanApplication of hydrogen reactor to accelerate the growth and develop-ment of Horticulture crops using Hy-droponics systemLesna ChristwinarsoFaishal MajidPreserving tropical fruits with DC electric current and Aloe vera coatMuhamad Ganiswara Afif KharismaAdib PriyogoUtilization gadung tuber (dioscorea hispida dennust) as a bio battery that is environmentally friendlyCut Yuniati AnasRauzah MunziahManufacture of activated charcoal of cocoas skin using natural activators as an absorbent in the regeneration of edible oil

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IranAmirhossein KashaniadibJavad TavakolibanafshehdaraghSaving energy with climate designMohammad Mahdi Fathi Miraraz AlaPlanning clean recycling waste plas-tic as graphite

IraqZana Nahro SubhiMustafa Talaat M. AmeenCleaning oil spillSara Khalid Hadi ChawishliLaza Saadi Mustafa SenjawiSolar powered electric light rail tram system

ItalyNicolò Cervetti Matteo GarbelliAlessandro NaliatoSustainable urban greenery ma-nagement

KazakhstanAssel DarushovaDilnoza KakhkharovaRetention of native beesAkbota SugurgaliThe monitoring of the air at the ter-ritory of children agencies in the city of Taraz based on fluctuating asym-metry of birchAizhan AitekovaAliya AbdrakhmanovaBiological identification role of earthworms in determining the toxi-city of the soilAigerim KulekeyevaZhibek ShardenWorldwide enforcement of alterna-tive energy sources and its develop-ment in KazakhstanShinggis KuantayevIslam BarinovMultifractal properties of solar acti-vity

KosovoBertan PacariziArt GungaFly ash filtration in central heating systemsFitim CenaBajram PiranaUsed tea waste absorption for re-moval of phenol from synthetic and industrial waste waterDritero RekathatiLeonit Hoxha Wastes on roof and wall

KyrgyzstanOmurbek NazarovTemirlan SeitalievGenerating heat and electricity from hydrogen and oxygen at homeAtai Samyibek UuluNEW.system of waste recycling Aijana KaraevaAidai OsmonovaUsing of sex pheromone traps for biological control of apple pests Uran OmurbayevArtur NesterovHealing comes from date fruit (Phoe-nix dactylifera)Askar TinaliyevAbdel-Akhat MulyukbaevEcology Project

LatviaLuīze ReutaLinda Cukure All rivers flow to the sea

LithuaniaDobilė MinkutėProtective case for mobile phonesAdomas HendriksonJulius RancevasContent of the oxygen in natural water – water, as a source of health, indicator

LuxembourgCharel WohlAmel MuharemovicDefense of garlic against heavy me-tals and herbivory Pit SchwartzBob BertemesChicken egg „breakability“Eloïse JennesVanessa Klapp How do dried yeast and fresh yeast differ in terms of their alcohol and CO2 production?

MacedoniaGorazd KonjanovskiMiroslav DrndalovChemical composition and antimi-crobial activities of pinus peuce, pinus heldreichii and pinus sylvestris in additional recycling of the waste products for paper making and na-tural herbal soapMarko KoevskiNikola PetrusevskiThe Cellulose Cycle - A Novel, En-vironmentally friendly and Cheap Method for Cellulose RegenerationZorana AndonovicAjra SinanovaFinally, toxic mushrooms endowed the nature : A wicked, simple and in-expensive way of producing biodie-sel

MalaysiaNadhirah Izyan Mohd AzizanSiti Raudah NasruddinGARFISH Hg DeactivatorShadiswaren A/L ParameswaranAnis Sabihah Binti AididOnce ignore now hero: banana stalk based activated carbon (bsac) as low cost adsorbent for basic and re-active dyes removalMohd Emil Abidin Bin Mohamad EmlaIman Nurhakim Bin Muhammad HakimGo green fume purifier

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MaliBalla Moussa TraoreThe helping of nature

MexicoSantiago Garcia LomeliAnthropomorphic factors damage to the biosphereMaria Fernanda CastroECOmbustible Orgánico Estefanía de Allende BecerraElián Vega GaleanaCitogenotoxicity and teratogenicity of an energy drink in Arabic miceAlejandro Urias CamachoMechanical prosthetic armKatia Aldhara Plaza Palacios Once upon a time in the lake of Cha-pala

MoldovaAhmed UmbatovThe energy efficiency calculations program

MongoliaAzjargal NaranbayarDelgermaa BataaBio-based organic plastic from pinus sibirica

MyanmarOak Soe AungAn introduction to freshwater mus-sel pearls as biological indicators, effects of heavy metal and ammonia for the formation of pearl and solu-tions usingolla filiculoides for re-moving heavy metals and ammonia for better pearlsAung Auza KyawSwan Htet Yan NaingNatural alternatives to synthetic pes-ticides arthropod control (aphids) by lawsonia inermis (henna) with dif-ferent solvent extracts antibacterial, antiviral and antimycotic property of henna for the plants

NigeriaBunmi ObagbemisoyeOguntimehin BummiProduction of hair shampoo using eco friendly cocoa podsOgidi ChianugoAbadi TochukwuAn investigation into environmental pollutants in air, soil and water in the Niger Delta and possible remedia-tion measures

PakistanUssama Khan K. BalochGet the pollutants out: removal of harmful pollutants from industrial waste water by tea wasteMir Khan RindEnviroment friendly pesticideMuhammad Usama KiyaniPreservation of food by grapefruit peels

RomaniaIonut Alexandru BudisteanuAutomated system using Artificial Intelligence to recognise traffic jams or other natural disasters like hurri-canes, fires, etc...C. Diana Ioana Anastase Onu D. Crina FlorinelOil spill cleanup electromagneticallyClaudia Ioana Maria ZeicuMihalcea AlexandraComparative analysis of the different types of agriculture

SpainLaura LagoAmelia CamposEnviromental nanotechnologyAntonio PérezVictor LoscosDomotic and enviroment

TajikistanBezhan KhudoyarovKhayom MudugovCleaning of channel water by using paddle wheels

Amonullo AbdulloevPiran AhmedovBioremoval of ecotoxicological im-pact of heavy metals by the use of microfungi and common vegetables in Hisor Valley in TajikistanIskandar KarimovOzar TufalonovThe novel pesticides labelling sys-temDilshod AgishevMehriddin GulamovSarez Lake - catastrophy turns to energy and useful water

TanzaniaAlwi Habib NuruMiracles of cashew nut shell (how one waste converted to three best)Hafidh Juma AmeirNassor Mattar Nassor Al TiwanyDirect drive environment friendly vehicleMahfoudh Farid MahfoudhMubeen Nadir MohammedNatural mosquito repellent: lemon grass

ThailandSirisopa HoffmannKunlanit ChaodamrongEfficiency brazier walls reflect heat from the recycled materialsNattaphorn BuayamPotential of copper absorption of monoraphidium sp. and scenedes-mus sp.

TurkeyYusra SalmanObserving the inhibition effect of tannin-added acMustafa Rusen OzorucAsya KadicStronger nanofibers at higher cylin-derical collector rates in electrospin-ning process

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Handenur CaliskanBengisu OmerciogluThe damages of sunscreen and pro-tection ways from ultraviolet rays (uv) “without” sunscreenÖzce DurakThrombin immobilized alginate based medical product that reduce coagulation time: new generation band aidSezin ErsoyEge Mehmet AkmanAssessing the waste of wheat germ, the heart of wheat

TurkmenistanAlisher MatyakubovIlyas RashidovResearch on nitrate ion absorption degree of plants in salinated soils of Dashoguz stateSuray HudaykulyevaOgulsoltan SoyunovaEnvironmental condition of Dasho-guz city and its suburbsNurgeldi BazarovBerdimuhammet AnnageldiyevNew designed bee sting machine (bsm) and usage of dead bees in medicineGuvanch CharyyevSylapberdi BayjanovEnvironment-friendly smart-eco-house

UkrainePavel DolgotyorEngineering a factory for processing plastic waste into diesel fuel, gaso-line and sootArtem Mateush Igor Zinchenko Methods of preventing the water pollution with oil products by limi-ting the surface area of oil slick and moving oil from submerged tanker

USASamantha TurnquestCourtney ChavisThe effect of bioremediation of soil with fishbone on the amount of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsAutumn Rose GreenfieldThe potential use of turning rust into magnetite nanoparticles to reduce levels of cadmium and arsenic (v) from lake and deionized water

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Dutch projects Leidscherein CollegeAbdurrahman CelikThe fuel cell

Sint Joris CollegeFurkan BulbulTunahan Turna Halil Ibrahim DingerMuhammed OztanHighly photocatalytic nanocompo-sites for water purification system

Gymnasium JuvenaatKim van den EijndenJanine HagemanSustainable cooking

Nuborgh CollegeDanny HoltusJoachim van de WegSolar cooker improvementJoel LandJelle van DijkSolar-water-heater

Calvijn CollegeCoriena de Heer Suzanne MaljaarsEnvironmentally friendly red inkRonald EversJelmer JobseCatch cow fartsMark JoosseBas MeeusePromotion eco-friendly meatBart FluitWouter BootRobert de BruijneWavEnergyNiels VerhaarChristina PoppeDesertbloomArdjan SturmDennis DingemanseNiels-Jan WisseEcosaver Jordi WoutersWouter de VoogdTon de HeerIndustrial smog

Cosmicus Montessori LyceumHilal SofuAllysha SewradjWater in AfricaDuha Durmus Fatmanur UyarFrom GHG to sustainable energyThijs Vermeijden Rover Vos Stijn van Batum Daniel BonsVacuüm motor

Bonhoeffer CollegeArnout FrankenMarc LamainBryan VerveldOptimizing biogas output by pre-processing biomassSergey Dragomiretskiy Esmee Koopman Bram van den Pol Timon van ZijpEfficient sunray usageKarina Boekhoudt Floris Cornel Remy MaselandSelective street lighting on solar energy

Bataafs LyceumDuco van Buuren Reinoud PinoAnne BreurMaarten BestenDead land at workVeerle Dijkstra Hans Jan WesterhofRick Westland Jan Willem MijnheerPower plantMichiel Wiggers Anne KoningJorn Quattrocchi Jesse de BoerSmog - blow it away

Nilofar SekandarMelanie BlumeKars Veldkamp Menno van HoutenWater factoryLilian BerenpasMarijn BorninkhofChris BuijvoetsJoris SchuuringThe Capillary action

Ds. PiersoncollegeAlwin van der LoopSjoerd VeenstraProtein sourcesBurak Bayram Kadim AkbulutBioluminescence in informational markings

Hervormd Lyceum West Raouf Taha Tfaï Ishak Perk Fatih Topal Ibrahim BalSunflower oil fuel

Het Assink LyceumTessa van GemerenLinda HuiskampSea pollution by oil

Stedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem Cathelijne KoksKim WandelNatural living

St. Gregorius CollegeFurkan KarapinarMehmet YildizAdvanced seed farming

Farel CollegeVeerle RookLaura van der LastMaaike HaagenAnoxic waters

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Jochem RaatsMartijn DamPascal MuskeeGrow crops in dry areasJason van FeliusDaan van GorpRianne AchterbergTim CommandeurRecycle by depositsKim HaverlagJulian Buissant des AmorieJoyce KruytMaarten van SchalmWater problems in Ethiopia

Fons Vitae Lyceum/Amstel LyceumMurat KayaTarik KilicCigarette fume

Gymnasium ApeldoornStan SteeghsRaymond van DijkSustainable fitness

RSG LingecollegeMurat MercanMuzaffer ÖztoprakEnes GurcuogluCharge any USB device by riding your bike

Cosmicus CollegeRami YounesMaksud DisliDavid KanaarBerat KayaSalt-sweet-sea programNisa PolatRuveyda CoskonMeryem BasogluSafa KaplanOil absorberKubra Akca Norien GulMelanie Lopes AndradaDilaraOzdemirWind garbage collector

Dominicus College/ Stedelijk Gymnasium NijmegenSafa YilmazDursun SarikayaRakib SardarThe electric bicycle

GertrudiscollegeRuth van RoemburgEllen van WeselA constructed wetland: sustainable and efficient

Caland LyceumKurat AkyuzMusab UluçayMuhammed DerinNaim UlucayMaximum output from rainwater

Cygnus GymnasiumJorke KooijengaMenno GilhuisJesse Hummen Tijmen BeemsterEarth warmth vapor engine

Titus Brandsma Lyceum/Maaslandcollege OssFurkan KocBilal SahinerUsing potatoes instead of batteries

Pallas Athene CollegeYunus Emre TosunKursat TosunSlipstream Turbine

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In this study, the addition of one of most common wastes; plastic (polypropy-lene) into concrete is analyzed mechanically and thermally. Reusing of plastic conserve the environment and energy will be saved by lowering the thermal conductivity of concrete. Different masses of plastic 36g, 90g and 180g are ad-ded into concrete sample. Bending and compression tests of the concrete sam-ples cured for 3, 7 and 28 days have been performed. It has been observed that the addition of plastic into concrete reduced bending and compression strength within the range of 2 to 34%. But reusing of plastic in the concrete reduced ther-mal conductivity by a range of 3 to 9%.Also reusing plastic in the concrete will cut down the cost of living. Furthermore reusing plastic in the concrete will re-duce the cost of concrete. Also in this study it has been noticed that concrete becomes ductile making house safer under earthquakes.

International project abstracts63. Reuse waste, save the energy , save the world

Mario Istrefi Rei Kociu

Wood is one of the most used materials of all times. Research has shown that forest area was decreased in world by 60,000 square kilometers per year causing deforestation. Deforestation has negative effects on the nature. In an attempt to find solution to this worldwide problem of deforestation, I have come up with an idea of saving wood. Our idea is to build durable, lighter skateboard that is produced by using composite material made from natural fibers. I compared material used in skateboard production with composite material. I have seen wood can be easily replaced by this composite material. We have produced a sample composite material with 4.5 mm thickness and measured strength and strain, Young’s modulus and work of rupture. I compared mechanical properties of wood with composite material. We have seen even with 4.5 mm thickness the results are better than some of the wood and also cheaper.

451. Producing an environment friendly skate-board

Rei Bako

There are rich chrome mines in Bulqiza in Albania. After the refinement of these mines the leftovers are called ferrochrome (FCS). In Albania, FCS is not used in any ways and directly thrown away. As of now million tons of accumulated FCS is harming the nature. The main reason is that harmful substances in FCS are reaching living beings through waters and fields. In our research we aimed to see if we can use FCS which is normally harmful to the nature, as thick aggre-gate in cement. Known as roads and airways are the places mostly subjected to abrasion. As of observations and results of the tests show, if we use FCS in the making of roads and airways we will have more enduring and long lasting roads and airways.

644. Cleaning the environment from the waste of factories

Arjana FetaFirdeus Kerciku

Albania

Albania

Albania

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Oil pollution is an environmental problem. It is difficult to be cleaned and it takes years for the damaged area to have the same environmental conditions as it had before the oil spill. The amount of petroleum products ending up in the ocean is estimated at 0.25% of world oil production about 6 million tons per year. In this study, we have used certain sunflower compounds, which prevent the oil spill and cut down its harmful effects. Our results show that if sunflower is used with oil, it absorbs large amounts of it and proving so to be an excellent cleaner. What’s more important, sunflower is a natural, cheap and can be found easily in any amount that is asked and quite in every country of the world. To sum up, the use of sunflower as an oil spill cleaner would help in the reduction.

International project abstracts645. Cleaning the sea from the oil slicks by using sunflower stalks

Diana AliuEra Gorica

To decrese the pollution problem caused by fossil fuels, we guided our research into several proposals for the biofuel production from first used vegetable oils. The waste oil from businesses engaged in food production can be a source for generating mixed fuel (B5 according to Law 26,093 enacted in Argentina) or as a diesel substitute. One of the objectives of the project is working through a statistical analysis of the residual oils originated from businesses engaged in the food industry, important data such as the amount of residual oils produced will allow us to estimate the quantity of biofuel that could be obtained after chemi-cal transformations. To increase the volume of raw material, we also study the addition of tallow, we think that it would be possible to obtain biofuel from that source as well. We studied the optimal reaction production conditions for best performance and final product quality.

547. Project B.A.R

Alvin AlvarezFrancisco Abraham Jorquera Caceres

Most towers for windmills are made out of steel. The idea of our project is to replace the steel towers by wooden towers. Wood as an again growing raw ma-terial is available most of the time. It is thinkable that € 300,000 can be saved for each tower. Compared with normal steel towers you can save a lot of money in the transport as well. Wood can be chopped down exactly where the windmills will be build. The best condition therefore would be if there is a transportable machine that changes the wood into truss members straight away. This project is good for the environment in more than one way: - Promotion of wind energy converters for ecologically electricity generation - Ecologic construction (the tower is made out of wood) - The wood machining centre is transportable, can be put on a container, is suitable for the road and can be used frequently.

654. Wind power

Hannes GamperAlexander Feger

Albania

Argentina

Austria

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In this Project, it has been studied converting waste sludge, taken from Treat-ment of Yeast Plant, and vinasse to end product, and, usable of obtained ripe compost as organic fertilizer on to green lands. With this aim, appropriate com-posting techniques have been improved. Characterization of waste sludge and vinasse has been the first step in the project. Vinas, and waste sludge have been mixed with the following proportions, a: 100% waste sludge, b: 82% waste sludge + 18% Vinasse, c: 70% waste sludge + 30% Vinasse, d: 33% waste sludge + 67% Vinasse,e: 11% waste sludge + 89% Vinasse, f: 4% waste sludge + 96% Vinasse, At the end of the study 10-30% decrease on TS, 10-60% decrease on VS has been observed. 70% Treatment Plant Sludge and 30% Vinas mixture have been found as the best compost mixture ratio.

International project abstracts82. Evaluation and to being composted of vi-nasse a fer

İsmayil VeliyevAli Allahverdiyev

Recently, rapid development of nanotechnology gives opportunities for creation of materials of new generation having unique properties for material science. Rapid development of nanotechnology made problem of safety topical as well. Nowadays the main problems worrying the specialists working in this sphere are previously assessment of dangerous events that may happen while keeping, transporting and using of nanomaterials. In the result of decreasing of size of nanoparticles, increasing of their surface energies and chemical activity they get unique properties in comparison with macroparticles. Among these nanopar-ticles nano-sized particles of various metals have such properties and they can be used in different fields of technology. Due to decreasing of size of metal nanoparticles they became entirely unstable. In regular air nanoparticles of Fe and Al oxidize with fair speed and burn and it causes to explosion.

557. Protection from the injuries of metal na-naduts and deriving benefits from their pro-perties

Sakhavet HeydarliVeli Valizade

The term heavy metal refers to any metallic chemical element that has a relative-ly high density and is toxic or poisonous at low concentrations. Heavy metals are natural components of the Earth’s crust. They cannot be degraded or destroyed. To a small extent they enter our bodies via food, drinking water and air. Heavy metals can end up in the waterways of the world as a result of industrial or agri-cultural processes and have been linked to a variety of health problems, ranging from nausea and vomiting to lung, kidney and brain damage. While there are numerous purification methods are already employed to try and keep the nas-ties at bay, many involve significant cost and can carry their own toxic risks. But now, an unlikely new source of water decontamination – banana peel is found.Some Studies have shown that banana skins have the potential to rapidly extract quantities of copper.

545. Purification of heavy metal by banana peel

Vildana IsakovicNejra Steta

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Planet Earth that we live on is an “energy powerhouse„ itself. Every tiny living cell contains an impressive amount of energy. Although we are surrounded by this complex system, people are getting blind for all the incredible resources that could be used on our planet. Using unsustainable energy we are harming the Earth as well as ourselves. However people nowadays are aware of those oppor-tunities. We are harnessing wind power, hydropower, biofuel and solar energy for creating electricity. Do you think that is enough? Well for scientists it is just the beginning... We are researching for new alternative ways of producing ener-gy all the time. One of the regions they are researching is directly under our feet. Maybe this could surprise you, but we can generate energy from soil. Actually by the use of microbial fuel cell and the help of the planet`s most abundant organ-isms, bacteria, it is possible to provide.

International project abstracts546. Use the microbial fel cell to create electri-city from waste

Amina Talic

You must have heard it milion times through media: Stop polluting water. But have you ever thought about your influence on water sources? If you had, you would understand there’s no doubt about importance of water. About half of the world’s poor die each day because of consuming unsafe drinking water while one billion people are without access to it. Our solution: micron water cleaning. Firstly, using a pre-filter, larger sediments are screened out. Second step: Ultra Filtration Membranes whose pores are 15 nanometers wide. With these mem-branes we clean smallest bacterias (from 100 to 200 naometers wide) and smal-lest viruses (up to 25 nanometers small) .Third step: activated carbon filter. It is made of high specification activated carbon which reduces a broad spectrum of chemical residues including pesticides, endocrine disrupting compounds, medical residues and heavy metals. So, if you are still wondering, we offer a solu-tion: cleaning all pathogens without any aid of fool tasting chemicals. We cannot change the world ourselves, but we can be the missing piece of world saving puzzle.

559. Micron water cleaning

Hata BotonjicAida Hodzic

The greenhouse gases (GHG) concentration in the atmosphere has colossally in-creased in recent decades. The carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the main causes of climate changes. Nowadays, the world launches approximately 10 billion tons of CO2 per year. Photosynthetic microorganisms have higher growth rates rates when compared to plants. In addition, their advantageous characteristics can be optimized with the cultivation in photobioreactors. My project aims to se-questrate carbon using a Photobioreactor for carbon sequestration, developed by me, in domestic enviroments, consequently neutralizing CO2 emissions of people, contributing to reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere. The photobioreactor, which cultivates the microorganisms under a controlled and independent man-ner, is being tested. The tests will evaluate the growth and absorption of CO2 of the cyanobacteria Synechococcus nidulans, as well as the operation of the equipment. After the growing, all CO2 that was absorbed will be immobilized with epoxy resins.

398. Photobioreactor for carbon absorption: an equipment for the neutralization of CO2 emis-sions in domestic environments

Victor Thut



Brazil

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The liming process it’s a part of the tanning process which is responsible to re-move the skin and the hair of the animal and also, it’s responsible for 31% of the residual waste generated in all the tanning process. It hasn’t appropriated treat-ment, it’s just evicted for R$ 158/m³. Besides all the organic matter proceeding by the skin (keratin), it contains sulfide which is responsible for the uncomfortable odor of the tannery. The main idea of the project is to reduce the odor of the li-ming, turning sulfide into sodium sulfide and refill it in the laming process it own, decreasing the organic matter that left using the keratinolytic bacteria Bacillus subtilis. By using the bacteria, it could be decreased in almost 60% the organic matter, and reducing the pH of the liming with sulfuric acid and collecting the sulfide with sodium hydroxide, reducing in 95% the sulfide.

International project abstracts407. Liming microbiological degadation

Carolina BordinhãoMartina Dietrich

How are various applications and requirements, environmental education and proper management of solid waste, presents itself as a viable alternative both economically and socially. When appropriate methodologies for shaping and building composites are applied, we can obtain excellent results with high performance and durability. The project consists of two ECO FUN construction toys for children and benches for outdoor plazas, using tubes of toothpaste and empty rice husk. To the beginning of the study was defined as a balance toy to be built. After elaborate designs in CAD modeling software, 3D, the toys were con-structed, using the material above, produced by intrusion. With the prototype in hand, we evaluated the properties of the products and made the adjustment to regulatory standards. It was also made a public awareness campaign ambental and collection of empty tubes, along with nurseries and public agencies, so that people see the benefits of recycling.

513. ECO FUN - Ecological playground built with tubes of toothpaste

Felipe dos Santos Machado

The project focuses first on extending the green land in Burundi as a result of fighting against the dryness occurred in the North of Burundi especially in the province of Kirundo and Cibitoke’s province. In fact, some of Burundi’s provinces face a drought due to their limited possession of much green land. Burundi has an essentially agriculture-based economy in terms of employment, with around 90% of the labour force working in the primary sector. The project will contribute both in the promotion of the economic growth of the country and in extending the green land in the country which regulate the climate change. In addition, our project will be benefit to Burundi and to our organization as our main goal for this 5years, I mean from 2012-2017 lay on planting many trees in the country as much as possible through sensitizing the population on the benefits of good and protected environment.

341. Create green land

Kelhia Mutonyi Nzigamye Emery

Brazil

Brazil

Burundi

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This project is to improve the climate of the schools environment in the area of rural Bujumbura. This particular place suffered so much during the war. Many children are orphans children household headed. Eno Burundi is willing to im-prove the quality life of children and the community around the schools in this area. Chicken will be provided to schools to produce eggs which will be eaten by the beneficiaries who are kids in schools. Garden will be promoted with enough fruits trees and glasses planting. ENO will coordinate the day to day implementa-tion and monitoring to make sure the project is sustainable, well using the funds and finishing it at the time bound.

International project abstracts677. Children of Rural Bujumbura

Noella Muco Alain Ntibategera

Since Cambodia is one of developing country, the expense on daily products especially food doesn’t fit to what Cambodian people can earn per day, plus the food cost is rapidly increasing which we can easily see from this data, food im-ports fell from 769,993 tonnes in 2010 to 254,080 in 2011, while the total value of imports increased to US$158 million from $134 million, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed. Food wastes are being wasted from each home every single day which is leading to soil and air pollutions as people dump it on landfill as well as water polluted cause by dumping wastes in the water. According to the data shown above, we can analyze that wasting food is like wasting currency. As the response to this issue, biogas from organic wastes should be established in Cambodia. Moreover, organic wastes can easily be found and priceless.

628. Biogas production from organic wastes

Sokly Ny

Solar cooker uses direct solar power by gathering the sun’s rays for heating water or cooking food. It’s a low-cost device which is helpful in daily life. An essential part of solar cooker is a reflector. There are many shapes of solar cooker. As we can see, the use of gas, wood and charcoal has been increase day by day because of the increase of population worldwide. So it is better to use solar cooker, it can reduces the use of gas, wood or coal. The purpose of this project is to provide an apparatus for cooking by using solar heat which cooks in the same amount of time as a normal cooker. We use a big pan which made from metal and covered it by pieces of mirror. The black pot is placed in front of the reflection point of the antenna. Black pot is used because to absorb more.

630. Solar Cooker

Moniroth NouPagna Va

Burundi

Cambodia

Cambodia

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International project abstracts

In the introduction we discuss about our goals and the reasons why we selected this theme for our investigation. The theoretical foundations are given know-ledge about the basics of electrolysis of water and chemical elements that are products during electrolysis. The experimental methods consists the develop-ment of sketches and ideas of the model as well as the ways of performing mea-surements and obtaining the experimental results. The work has confirmed the hypothesis: Our home-made electrolyser creates fuel out of water. Key terms: Water, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Water Electrolysis, Joe’s cells, HHO motor.

495. Ecological way of producing electricity using Joe’s cells

Vedran GojkovićAnja Đokić

Croatia

The paper describes in detail how to create and use calorimeter for determining the energy value of heating water in a separate chamber. Energy values were obtained for five different types of wood biomass and three from the environ-ment. Analysis of experimental results indicates a correlation with the known values from literature of the energy dependence due to the degree of humidity of the used materials. The most significant result of the research is evidence that the environmental benefits of biomass (leaves, corn, straw) and the experimen-tal confirmation of the usefull biomass energy potential on which this study has successfully pointed. Key words: biomass, wood, calorimeter, the energy value.

629. The energy value of wood and biomass

Ivan RagužDomagoj Marić

In the introduction we talk about our goals and the reasons why we chose this theme to work with. In The theoretical foundations is given the knowledge about the basics of earthquakes and their effects on our lives. In The experimental methods along with developmental sketches and ideas of the model are shown ways of performing measurements and obtaining the experimental results. The work has confirmed the hypothesis: the house that we had protected it in a way that allows it to move more freely of the substrate gives better conservation re-sults during the earthquake than ordinary houses. Key terms: Earthquake, Pro-tection against earthquakes, Free movement.

646. Protection against earthquake

Zvonimir KovačevNikolina Maglić

Croatia

Croatia

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Water is vital, yet 95% of the water entering our homes goes down the drain. This focuses on saving those extra 95% by strategically placing two drains for one sink. One drain to drain used water and the other to re-circulate clean water. This experiment uses a storage bin, a funnel, a faucet, a water pump, and a small tub to build a sink that recycles water instantly. It utilizes the fact that the presence of an object in the path of the water stream (from the faucet) deflects it, compared with its unobstructed path. All used water went down the drain that rids of used water, while all unused water was recycled for further use in the storage bin that is placed directly under the drain that re-circulates clean water, saving at least 40% of the water. Overall, this sink, uses simple materials and recycles water im-mediately and effectively.

International project abstracts521. Recycling Water

Sanna Darwish

Kuressaare’s climate is one of the mildest in Estonia. It is located on a signifi-cant bird migration way. There are always a lot of birds in winter in Kuressaare. There are lots of suitable places and food for birds. People like small birds and feed them, but they do not like black and big birds. In two years, the birds were counted at a ten separate times, at about 1100-1300. There were many speci-mens of small birds in Kuressaare but a large number of jackdaws and Hooded crows. There were 4000-5000 Jackdaws in Kuressaare in 2009 and 2000 crows. Waste management is now reorganized in Kuressaare. A large number of Jack-daws and Hooded crows were starving and they started to eat small bird’s food in bird feeding houses. The solution is a birds feeding house that starts to mew like a cat when a big bird comes in.

556. The birds wintering in 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 in Kuressaare

Kaspar Mölder

Aerosols are “dust” suspended in the air. They are of natural origin, sandstorm, volcanic tephra, pollen or forest fire or coming from human activities, factory fumes, exhaust fumes. Aerosols have a first-order role they can act on climate change, snow melt, human health. It is therefore useful to know their nature or their quantity. The dustracker is made of plastics, it includes: • A box P.V.C trans-parent protection • A PVC pipe • A paper filter. • bathroom ventilation fan. This tracker is used to trap particles, dust, smoke, sand, pollen... suspended in the atmosphere: aerosols. This trap is done by air aspiration through a filter. The aero-sols presence change according to weather conditions. We found that the wind increases the amount of aerosols while the quantity of aerosols strongly decrea-ses in rainfall episodes, aerosols are subtracted from the atmosphere and plated on the ground. It is therefore natural hazards amending the rain of aerosols.

706. Atmospheric dust tracker

Sarah BernetAlexandre Longhi

Egypt

Estonia

France

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We sometimes hear talk about the climate effects of aerosols. We then thought about some questions; • What are the aerosols? What is their origin? • How can we detect them, measure them, identify them? What are their effects on climate and health? For this, we worked in different ways, with our scientific workshop: conducting experiments to discover the concepts of meteorology (How clouds form? Origin of wind and precipitation? Role of atmospheric pressure?). We are also interested in solar radiation and clouds. In partnership with CNES, we par-ticipate in the international campaign aerosol measurement. Equipped with a photometer and a weather station, we conduct regular surveys that we save ev-ery day on a website online data. We try to compare our results with official data (satellite data, laboratory analysis of air, etc.). We construct graphs.

International project abstracts742. Calisph ‘Air: Head in the Clouds

Roxanne VivienGuillaume Fédor

An apparatus which makes possible to simulate the atmospheric dusts’ influence on the absorption of the light. It is an experimental model made up of a closed circuit with PCV pipes. At one of the extremities we fix successively various sour-ces of light (halogen lamp, infra-red DEL). In front of the light source we can use, in special places, monochromatic filters. At the both extremities of the main pipe, two photosensitive cells connected to computers realize measurements. With a syringe, aerosols are sent out successively, sands, volcanic dust. Two fans assure the displacement of the aerosols in the circuit. The light’s quantity which has crossed the cloud of aerosols is evaluated, recorded by the cells; the results are translated graphically. Results: We characterized the behavior of different aerosol vis-à-vis light and IR.

743. Aéroatmolux

Séraphin LescanneCorentin Sablé

With posters “water, a vital ressource” exposed in our college, and to make aware all of our students on the necessity to preserve this fragile, natural resource and that we need humanity to learn to deal with it like a precious commodity, the students of the scientific workshop have made this game. Using the Montessori method by which the students “learns by himself”. The students have created the fabrication plans, assembled and painted the different pieces, researched on the internet, made, printed and plastified their questions and finally put down the rules of the game.

744. European year of water: creation of a game

Emilie FontanelJosian Beneschi

France

France

France

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“Water “ is very essential to both living and non-living creatures. With the chemi-cal residues, oil split, ghost nets, wrecked ships, volcano eruption in sea, acid rain and heavy metal residues, our oceans suffer a lot with many pollutants. If we do not pay attention to marine conservation, the food chain will be destroyed and violated mostly since the fishes, shells and other sea food will be polluted by the existing disasters. Besides, the most important effect is that our drinking water will be polluted. As a result, we cannot have enough clean water to drink. Drinking polluted water will be harmful to our health and create many strange diseases. With the aim to protect our oceans, to arouse the attention of the teenagers and to enlarge the coverage of marine conservation to the kids and students, we decide to design the simple educational multi-purpose under-water robots to perform some “Ocean protection-tasks” such as cleaning oil split on sea surface, picking up the rubbish, ghost nets and wrecked ships, testing the volcano eruption.

750. Multi-purpose underwater robotics

Chun Wai Lo

Hong Kong

Until the end of the 19th century there used to be several lakes and marshland in the area. The draining canal called Dong-ér canal detouring the town in the west and the north was constructed in the 20th century. Today only a lake called Sóstó and Fejeték Marshes can be found here. While searching for crude oil in the second half of the 20th century, the inhabitants also found thermal water and they built a bath on the thermal water spring. The used warm water flows into the Dong-ér canal. We wanted to get to know what effect the thermal water had on the water quality of the canal. We measured the water temperature, the aci-dity and alkalinity, the dissolved oxygen, nitrite, nitrate and phosphate content on 3 spots. The first site (Bridge, SWS-01) is located in front of the place where the thermal water flows into the canal.

465. The effect of thermal water on the water of Dong-ér Canal

Kata Balázs-PiriKrisztian Szécsi

The rapid process of growth and development of plant so that resulting in rapid harvest cycle is the dream of all farmers. It is a challenge for us to make a product that can accelerate the process of growth and development of the plant, both enhancing the quality of these plants. In this research tested the product on horticulture crops through hydroponics system. This product consists of a set of hydrogen reactor, which will supply hydrogen to the needs of plant. The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the hydro-gen reactor applications on the growth and development of horticulture crops. Outcome of this research will also be beneficial to increase hydroponic farmers’ income. Other benefits can also improve environmental quality by increasing the supply of oxygen in the environment when used with a large scale.

566. Application of hydrogen reactor to accele-rate the growth and development of horticul-ture crops using hydroponics system

Muhammad Fikko FadjrimiratnoMuhammad Harliansyah Wasis Wildan

Hungary

Indonesia

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Exporters and importers use a method to prolong the storage-life of tropical fruits by dipping the fruits into wax (paraffin) to keep the appearance, freshness and moisture. This method is dangerous and because paraffin (wax) is a hydro-carbon compound which is inorganic and undigested in our digestive system. Ripening of a fruit is obtained by ethylene. Ethylene is an organic compound that consists of carbon and hydrogen. Ethylene can be broken down by electrical current through carbon bars and flowing this current through the water to the fruits. By sparying aloe vera extrtact to the surface of fruits. Aloe vera contains a protein that is useful to prevent bacteries enter the fruits since its function as a natural anibiotic substance that is safe, doesn’t change the colour, teste and smell of the fruits. Futher more aloe vera gel has no side effect and digested in our digestive system.

567. Preserving tropical fruits with DC electric current and Aloe vera coat

Lesna ChristwinarsoFaishal Majid

Indonesia

This study aims to determine whether gadung bulbs can be used as a bio bat-tery that is environmentally friendly, and this study aims to find out about the benefits of battery gadung as a means of recycling batteries as we know all kinds of waste such as used batteries that can be charged (rechargeable) B3 waste (hazardous and toxic materials). if not carelessly discarded or recycled, then the content of heavy metals and other hazardous substances in batteries can pollute water and soil. One way to recycle batteries is to make bio-batteries, and in this study we make bio-battery.

581. Utilization gadung tuber (dioscorea hispi-da dennust) as a bio battery that is environmen-tally friendly

Muhamad Ganiswara Afif KharismaAdib Priyogo

Until now there has been no research or information about the utilization of waste cocoa skin as activated charcoal. This study aims to utilize the waste cocoa skin becomes activated charcoal, given the proportionally cocoa skin contain elements of high cellulose. Activated charcoal is still active until now considered as adsorbents applicable so that their use are needed for various processes, one as an adsorbent to improve the quality of used edible oil. Growing businesses of fried food has made some affect which until now has not received much atten-tion, namely the increasing amount of cooking oil. In general, traders fried foods using cooking oil are continually in a very long period of time, without ever be-ing replaced and just add some fresh oil. These conditions lead to decomposition of components of oil. The result of the decomposition has a negative effect on oil quality and flavor and nutritional value.

604. Manufacture of activated charcoal of co-coas skin using natural activators as an absor-bent in the regeneration of edible oil

Cut Yuniati AnasRauzah Munziah

Indonesia

Indonesia

37


Saving Energy with Climate Design Towns and villages around the world have completely different structures. Many factors like history, culture, social relation, accessible materials in the area and the geographical situation all together can affect the utter and interior design and shape of the urban or rural architecture. In the parts with specific climate, this is the climate which plays the more impor-tant role in defining the design of buildings. By categorizing Iran’s climate, we can recognize three acute climates: - Central and southern parts: hot and dry climate (desert) - Northern parts: Hot and humid like tropical parts (coastal plain) - Northern west parts: dry and cold / alpine climate (mountain chain) We study about every traditional climate design in Iran and will show how we can using climate design to saving energy in modern design.

131. Saving energy with climate design

Amirhossein KashaniadibJavad Tavakolibanafshehdaragh

Iran

A lot of plastic waste is produced in our daily lives that often are not recycled for use again due to various reasons. In this project we want focused on a way that we can convert the waste plastics to the graphite and artificial diamond with chemical methods and processes. Largest and most widely used plastic is poly-ethylene with chemical formula, C2H4 (2 Carbon and 4 Hydrogen) that are like as the chain with continuous N times. After heating the chain of C2H4 (Plastics) to the near melting point that the combination of links are weak, we add Fluo-rine element to this melted plastics. In this step the Hydrogen can be separated from the plastic by Fluorine. Now we have Fluoride (HF) and Graphite (C). We can convert Graphite to the artificial diamond in high temperature and pressure condition.

140. Planning clean recycling waste plastic as graphite

Mohammad Mahdi Fathi Miraraz Ala

Iran

The main purposes of our project is finding a(n): ecologically pure, effective and cheap way to extract petroleum from water with the ability to use the petroleum again for industrial services without losing its initial properties and without lo-sing the lives of the millions of creatures out there.

208. Cleaning oil spill

Zana Nahro SubhiMustafa Talaat M.Ameen

Iraq

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Transportation is one of the main problems because of traffic jam and pollution. The most common example is the physical use of roads by vehicles. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between vehicles slows the speed of the traffic stream, congestion is incurred. As demand approaches the capacity of a road (or of the intersections along the road), extreme traffic congestion sets in. When vehicles are fully stopped for periods of time, this is colloquially known as a traffic jam or traffic snarl-up. Traffic congestion has a number of negative effects. Most countries are confronted with environmental pollution which is a global problem. As we know some countries have high solar energy so they shouldn’t ignore this energy but they have to utilize it efficiently. The system is made of electric light rail trams in which we use solar panels to convert sunlight directly into electricity.

640. Solar powered electric light rail tram sys-tem

Sara Khalid Hadi ChawishliLaza Saadi Mustafa Senjawi

Urban greenery is an essential feature of life quality in a city and its inhabitants. Our project propose the use of mowings, obtained by the regular maintenance operation of green spaces in a city, as a source of renewable energy: they are employed in a anaerobic digestion plant in order to produce energy by biogas. To conduct the study we calculated the quantity of biomass from mowings with-in to municipalities of Pontecurone and Tortona, and also the potential produc-tion of biogas (methane,CO2 and other gaseous), refering to a type of continous anaerobic digestion plant. The data examinated bring out the fact that the conversion of this material is twice advantageous, as on the one and it contribute to reducing the impact of the urban environment. If the municipalities pooled in the management they can have economic benefit.

282. Sustainable urban greenery management

Nicolò Cervetti Matteo GarbelliAlessandro Naliato

Iraq

Italy

Bees are a crucial component in the food chain. They pollinate the 90 commer-cially important crops worldwide, including most fruits and vegetables, nuts and oilseeds. A world without bees means mostly meat-free diet, the rice and corn crops, no cotton for the textile industry, with no gardens and wild flowers, no birds and animals. Without bees, the world economy will lose 26 billion pounds and 200 million British. Unfortunately in the U.S. and many other countries each year to 35-40% of bee colonies killed by unidentified reason. Experts believe that the bees are on the verge of extinction. Only native bee populations are resistant to diseases, they are not infected with viruses of the genotype and survival is very high. It is important to keep them. If bee colonies continue to die out and no one will find the cause, then the world will most likely only native bees!

382. Retention of native bees

Assel DarushovaDilnoza Kakhkharova

Kazakhstan

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The importance of the project lies in the fact that the fluctuating asymmetry of birch was used to study the degree of environmental pollution. Because of the small number of populations of this species in the city, it have never been taken up as a bioindicator before. The experimental procedure: 1. The analysis of scientific literature, which allowed us to establish the validity of the method of fluctuating asymmetry in birch assessment of environmental pollution. 2. The degree of air pollution in the areas of school preparation institutions in the city of Taraz. The obtained result showed that 19 kindergartens (82%) of Taraz city are located in very dirty air environment (more harmful 0.070). Two kindergartens (4%) - № 11 and № 17 are located in the contaminated area (0,061-0,070 anxiety).

498. The monitoring of the air at the territory of children agencies in the city of Taraz based on fluctuating asymmetry of birch

Akbota Sugurgali

Kazakhstan

Earthworms are being used to assess the ecological status of soils in recent years, as it is agreed in International Standard ISO 11268-1. Biological testing is used to determine the integral toxicity of soil in order to verify that the quality of the soil satisfies the requirements. Biological tests, that use worms, play an important role in the evaluation of remediation, that are contaminated by pollutants. The importance of the chosen topic lies in the fact, that for the first time earthworms have been used for monitoring and assessment of the ecological status of soils in the city of Taraz by secondary school students. The results of a threeyear moni-toring of the soil can be taken as the basis of ecological mapping of the city of Taraz.

500. Biological identification role of earth-worms in determining the toxicity of the soil

Aizhan AitekovaAliya Abdrakhmanova

In this scientific project we want to present the usage and the production of worldwide alternative kinds of energy. As a result of new scientific and tech-nological progress, the necessity of energy is increasing day by day. Natural re-source of fuel that allows production of energy is not endless, therefore it’s time to produce alternative ways of energy as substitution to them. Alternative sour-ces of energy are the sources that renovate by natural tendencies. That means sun, wind, water, geothermal water, heat of soil, biological energy of fuel. The ba-sic question of this scientific project is to show the using possibilities and impor-tance of alternative types of energy in Kazakhstan’s economy according to how developed countries master it. Tasks of the research work: * to demonstrate the effectiveness of alternative energy resources; * to determine commercial types of energy resources, which develop much more intensively; * to find out ways to escape from global energy.

549. Worldwide enforcement of alternative energy sources and its development in Kazakh-stan

Aigerim KulekeyevaZhibek Sharden

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

40


Research objective: using new methods of research of the time numbers, deve-loped in the theory of dynamic chaos, to investigate dynamics of time changes of solar activity (СА). Investigation phases 1. The analysis of a fortune of a ques-tion on the nature and time dynamics of solar activity is made. 2. The analysis of time dynamics of solar activity during the periods of its maxima and minima is carried out by a method of Takkensa of reconstruction of dynamics of difficult systems. Dimensions corresponding аттракторов are defined. 3. It is shown that dynamics СА though also very difficult, but deterministic, i.e. in it there is no ineradicable element of stochasticity. Thus attractor СА fractal, hence, in the sys-tem presented by time number СА, the chaotic fluctuations characterized high sensitivity to entry conditions and essential unpredictability, i.e. dynamic chaos should be observed Results can be used for forecasting СА.

535. Multifractal properties of solar activity

Shinggis KuantayevIslam Barinov

Kazakhstan

The largest stationary source of air pollution in Kosova is the power plant outside of Prishtina. We want to reveal precisely the capacity of toxic gas absorption of fly ash which is obtained from the coal power plant in Kosova, we want to make a special filter system by using fly ash and we want to use it for central heating systems in Kosova to decrease the emission of these gases: CO2 , CO , SO2, NOx. The fly ash that we use in Kosova has basic character. We know that the gases which are released by the combustion of the coal are acidic oxides CO2, SO2, NOx. We have experimented and found out that these gases can be absorbed by fly ash due to the acid-base reaction. The pH of the solution and the amont of releasing gases has decreased.

187. Fly ash filtration in central heating systems

Bertan PacariziArt Gunga

In our contemporarily world of today, in many fields of science, cheap, reliable and efficient ways in achieving a goal have been sought by many scientist and instructions rather than, seeking the same goal through more expensive and less efficient means. Likewise, many studies have been carried out to determine the effectiveness and reliable factors in removing phenol from wastewater using low cost absorbent. As in this regard coal power plant in Kosovo possesses a risk to the environmental and thus the people since it emits toxic pollutants, especially phenol. Kosovo has a coal power plant which releases substantial amounts of phenol during the coal conversion processes that contaminates the natural wa-ter streams, and soil. Phenol is considered to have toxic effects on human health even when present in small concentrations. Thus this project is focused on used tea waste as an alternative absorbent in order to remove phenol.

251. Used tea waste absorption for removal of phenol from synthetic and industrial waste water

Fitim CenaBajram Pirana

Kosovo

Kosovo

41


The growing amount of waste substance such as fly ash, used tyres, etc. have been resulted in an environmental problem. Recycling waste tyres has been widely studied fort he last 25 years in applications such as asphalt pavement, waterproofing systems and membrane layers. Fly ash is a waste substance which is produced from coal power plant in Kosovo after the burning of coal. The ther-mal power plants have problems in safe disposal of hazardous fly ash. The aim of the project is making construction materials from waste substances to use them as a composite materials for isolation on houses roof and to build garden walls. If these materials are suitably utilized, the pollution and disposal problems may be partly reduced.

252. Wastes on roof and wall

Dritero RekathatiLeonit Hoxha

Kosovo

Now as primary sources oil products (34.9 %), coal (23.5 %), natural gas (21.1 %), nuclear fuel (6.8 %) and renewed sources - a wind, the sun, hydro- and biofuel (13.7 %) are used. It has led to that for 50 years emissions of carbonic gas in at-mosphere have increased in 4.5 times and today make 20 х 1012. It is natural that one of the primary goals of modern power - searches of ways of overcom-ing of environmental problems - it is necessary to pass to new energy sources. So what can we do to make any changes, even they will be tıny? We suggest to use HFC(Hydrogen Fuel Cell) for extraction of energy of the house. Such method wanted to use widely in transport and served to replace transport on gasoline. By our search we have found out that withdrawal HFC is not only water, but also heat.

105. Generating heat and electricity from hy-drogen and oxygen at home

Omurbek NazarovTemirlan Seitaliev

Population growth increases requirements for the foodstuffs. The basic manu-facturer of the foodstuffs is the agriculture. The aspiration to receive is more agriculture - economic production stimulates creation of artificial single-crop systems instead of natural that leads to their destruction, but wide use of single-crop systems leads to pauperization and degradation of natural ecosystems, as an example to it is served by application of pesticides and others chemicals in agriculture. Chemicals operate not only on separate kinds as it would be desi-rable for person, and on all live. Besides application of nitric fertilizers conducts to accumulation of chemicals and nitrates in human body and turn the person grows old faster and its immune system weakens. Given project includes pro-cessing of a human waste: excrements, urine and a food waste. This project pro-motes restoration of biological circulation of substances. Thereby the person will return nutrients in soil which will promote development biogenesis.

137. NEW.system of waste recycling

Atai Samyibek Uulu

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

42


In recent years, researches have began on alternative methods of pest ma-nagement that is not harmful to environment and human health. One of those methods are pheromones, which benefits are high selectivity, easy biological de-gradability and safety for humans and animals. Pheromones are chemicals that determine mating behavior of insects. Pheromones produced by female insect attract male insect and this enables efficient usage of pheromones in pest con-trol. There are many works on this subject. In insects these pheromones are in small quantities.

257. Using of sex pheromone traps for biologi-cal control of apple pests

Aijana KaraevaAidai Osmonova

Kyrgyzstan

Nowadays people have big health problems due to environmental factors, con-ditions of work, uses of food which contain chemical materials. Nature and side effectless treatment methods are the more useful than chemical treatments. As a solution, we aimed to study the usage of date fruit. It contains high nutritional and medicinal value and is also a cheaper source of energy and nutrients. They contain niacin (nicotinic acid). They are really effective solution for treatments of backache. Niacin, vitamin of the B complex which is necessary for the health of the nervous system, the gastrointestinal tract and muscles. When they are taken regularly, they will reduce backache. This project reports proving of its uses in treatment of backache. In this project, we aimed to study the usage of date fruit. - To treat backache - For side effectless treatment - For cheaper treatment - For useful treatment - For natural treatment.

446. Healing comes from date fruit (Phoenix dactylifera)

Uran OmurbayevArtur Nesterov

Now forests are one of the most important problems in our world. They pro-tect soil from washout, regulate thawing of snow, improve a drain of the rivers, soften a district climate, give valuable wood and fruits. Forests percentage in Kyrgyzstan by 2009 is 4.25%. Mountain forests in Kyrgyzstan do not form large massıves or solıd girdles, and scattered by seperated plots and groves on slopes of mountains, gorges and rivers. Most wide – spread forests are fur tree nut – fruıt and archa.

448. Ecology Project

Askar TinaliyevAbdel-Akhat Mulyukbaev

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

43


The research „All rivers flow to the sea” has been done in Latvia, around Rujiena region. It is written by two students of Rujiena Secondary school - Luīze Reuta and Linda Čukure. The purpose of the research is to determine whether climate changes affect the quality of water of the rivers nearby. Different chemical pa-rameters in several rivers – Ruja, Saprasa, Ola, Seda – were determined. The re-search concentrates on the quality of the water of nearby rivers. 4 samples were taken from river Rūja, from each – Saprasa, Seda and Ola – one sample was taken. To determine the quality of the water different measurements were taken – tem-perature, conductivity, pH, the concentration of oxygen and phosphates, water hardness.

734. All rivers flow to the sea

Luīze ReutaLinda Cukure

Latvia

EU citizens are concerned about potential effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from mobile phones on human health. The aim of our study is to design and test protective cases for mobile phones in order to reduce their EMR. We used stainless steel yarns to make 2 types of shielding materials. These fabrics were used to design protective cases for mobile phones. It was found that the most successful protective case can reduce EMR by 90% down to a safe level. We have noted that the distribution manner of conductive yarns in the fabric is very important for protective features of the material – a mesh of conductive yarns inserted in woven fabrics is more effective than knitted fabrics made entirely from the same yarns. Our tests show that the use of protective cases does not influence mobile phone connectivity or battery discharge time.

363. Protective case for mobile phones

Dobilė Minkutė

The aim of the research is to prove the hypothesis, that the clean water flowing oxygen concentration is higher than in stagnant and polluted water [1, 2]. The aim of the project - to identify and to compare the amount of oxygen, water tur-bidity and water quality assessment by the smell in flowing water (Vilnelė river in the center of Vilnius, at the district of Užupis) and in stationary water (residential area in the pond).

586. Content of the oxygen in natural water – water, as a source of health, indicator

Adomas HendriksonJulius Rancevas

Lithuania

Lithuania

44


Garlic, grown in a controlled environment, was exposed to either herbivory, copper excess or both stresses. Chlorophyll content in the leaves was measured using a photospectrometry method, FRAP assay (Ferric reducing antioxidant power) was carried out and allicin content was determined using HPLC. Cay-man glutathione assay kit was also used to determine glutathione content in the leaves, but molecules from our matrix inhibited the kit from working properly. The experiment should verify that the plant’s allicin metabolic pathway is af-fected by different biotic and abiotic stresses, and that these stresses also affect chlorophyll synthesis which was verified by trend. Fungi infestation and other physical illnesses indicated that the plant was affected by the simulated stresses. Whereas allicin content in the leaves remained unaffected by copper. One could estimate, that the plant used an alternative pathway to synthesise the essential defense molecule.

441. Defense of garlic against heavy metals and herbivory

Charel WohlAmel Muharemovic

Luxembourg

We measured the resistence of fresh chicken eggs. Therefor, we constructed a device to apply pressure on the eggs. Then, we made a link between the thick-ness of the shell and ist stability.

745. Chicken egg „breakability“

Pit SchwartzBob Bertemes

The target of the launched study was to find out if there is a difference between dried and fresh yeast with the regard to their alcohol- and CO2-production. We performed several experiments with a different setting each time (type of yeast, temperature, different sugars). At the end of each experiment, we measured the quantity of CO2 produced by the yeast. To determine the amount of alcohol pro-duced, we centrifuged the yeast-sugar-water-solution, placed it in a pycnometer and weighed it. From these values we calculated the density of alcohol. The pro-duced quantity of CO2 by dried yeast was always higher than with fresh least. As the quantity of dried yeast is equivalent to ½ a cube of fresh yeast, we had to take three times more of this yeast to get comparable results. So we did the experi-mented again and could then deliver the proof of evidence for our hypothesis.

748. How do dried yeast and fresh yeast differ in terms of their alcohol and CO2 production?

Eloïse JennesVanessa Klapp

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

45


This study is concerned with the Chemical composition and antimicrobial activities of essential oil of endemic Pinus peuce (Macedonian Pine). Pinus sylvestris(Scotch Pine) and Pinus heldrechii(Bosnian Pine) The aim was to observe Chemical composition and the antimicrobial potential of these pine extracts as well as to use the products of pines for soap production and the remaining parts for paper making. Pinus peuce branches were from Mountain Pelister, Mace-donia, Pinus heldreichii and Pinus sylvestris branches collected from Faculty of Forestry. Chemical composition determination was done in Biology department. Experiments for paper and soap making were done in our school lab. After the 24h period of incubation Candida spp was affected by all pine trees while other microorganisms are affected by different species of different oil concentration. Pine species had Chemical composition. The products are used to make soap and the remaining parts recycled for paper making.

57. Chemical composition and antimicrobial activities of pinus peuce, pinus heldreichii and pinus sylvestris in additional recycling of the waste products for paper making and natural herbal soap

Gorazd KonjanovskiMiroslav Drndalov

Macedonia

Our goal is to present an efficacious way to recycle and regenerate cellulose by using already utilized materials. It is greatly important to show all the envi-ronmental and economic benefits of our exclusive method. So far, no effective method for ecological cellulose recycling has been found. The most common methods for obtaining cellulose require environmentally dangerous chemicals. The actual project is the chemical dissolution and hydrolysis of waste cellulose. We used old paper and wood saw, hydrolyzed with sodium hydroxide and dis-solved in Schweizer’s reagent’, a complex compound. The cellulose recovered was 80-95%. No waste products are generated. Instead, all obtained products can react with each other to produce the starting materials. This makes our method stand out in the sense of it being efficiently repeatable and greatly re-ducing the rate of tree cuttings worldwide as it can be universally applied to any type of cellulose-containing materials.

261. The cellulose cycle - a novel, environmen-tally friendly and cheap method for cellulose regeneration

Marko KoevskiNikola Petrusevski

The purpose of this project is to produce a cost-effective, easily made and envi-ronmentally friendly biodiesel, that will represent an alternative to the old fos-sil petroleum and will replace it, thus resolve the present energy crisis. Finally, with our project, toxic mushrooms, that belong to the group of non-edible fungi brought to nature. We found a wicked, simple and inexpensive way of producing biodiesel. We tried 5 different organic solvents for extracting the oil contained in mushrooms. The oil content, depending on the solvent used, differed from 0.1% to 51.4%. By use of transesterification method we converted the oil obtained in the greatest amount, i.e. the one extracted by acetic acid, into biodiesel and glyc-erin. The conversion took place for 95%. Our main aim was to distinguish which organic solvent has the greatest ability to extract the oil from the mushrooms.

511. Finally, toxic mushrooms endowed the na-ture: a wicked, simple and inexpensive way of producing biodiesel

Zorana AndonovicAjra Sinanova

Macedonia

Macedonia

46


Mercury and its more potent form, methylmercury are able to enter living tis-sues and bioaccumulate via the food chain before reaching its toxic level in hu-man body. Mercury ingestion by human, primarily through fish consumption, has been reported to cause numerous health problems. Hence, it is imperative to find a natural, easy, quick and cheap solution to tackle this environmental health problem. We have discovered that a naturally occurring substance in gar-lic called allicin, which has a similar action to selenium in deactivating mercury by sequestering or chelating mercury, rendering mercury inactive and unable to damage the human body. We attempted to investigate which herbal plant that is the best at deactivating mercury and its optimal concentration needed for maxi-mum mercury deactivation. Our results showed that garlic is the best candidate for a mercury deactivator and maximum mercury deactivation (>90%) could be achieved using 1.5% garlic concentration.

267. GARFISH Hg Deactivator

Nadhirah Izyan Mohd AzizanSiti Raudah Nasruddin

Malaysia

There is a considerable need for the dyes removal from textile wastewater. Dis-charge of this wastewater into receiving stream cause damage not only to aqua-tic life but also to human beings. Most of the dyes are not easily biodegradable and thus colour may still remain in the effluent. In this work, the potential fea-sibility of banana stalk based activated carbon (BSAC) for removal of methylene blue (MB), malachite green (MG) and remazol brilliant violet 5R (RBV) from aque-ous solution was investigated. The BSAC prepared was mesoporous in nature with relatively high surface area with total pore volume of 0.315 ml/g. Batch ex-periments were carried out to study the adsorption isotherm with the initial dye concentration of 5-25 mg/L. The highest dye removal of 93.0%, 88.4% and 83.8% were obtained for MB, MG and RBV dyes, respectively for initial dye concentra-tion of 5 mg/l. The results indicated that BSAC was an attractive adsorbent for removing basic and reactive dyes from aqueous solutions.

305. Once ignore now hero: banana stalk based activated carbon (bsac) as low cost adsorbent for basic and reactive dyes removal

Shadiswaren A/L ParameswaranAnis Sabihah Binti Aidid

After some researches, we found that the biggest contributors to global war-ming are industrial facilities such as power plants and factories. A lot of green-house gases are also produced by the open burning and rubbish in incinerators. Our team is researching and developing an idea to trap the greenhouse gases produced by these facilities. We plan to capture the gases in the fumes such as carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), and other gases by pumping it through a stream of moving water. The gases will be dis-solved in the water so that they will not be released to the air. Then, the water will be cleaned so that the water may be used again. This way, we can reduce air pollution and the amount of water used to purify the fumes.

374. Go green fume purifier

Mohd Emil Abidin Bin Mohamad EmlaIman Nurhakim Bin Muhammad Hakim

Malaysia

Malaysia

47


Save them with traditional medicines! In Africa, particularly in Mali, malaria is the most common disease that causes about 2 million deaths in the continent and 2000 deaths in Mali per year. The first reason why lots of people die from ma-laria is that they cannot afford to buy the medicines. We’ve found two traditional medicines costing almost nothing. Firstly, we found a plant which prevents peo-ple getting the disease. We got the oil of this plant and mixed it with vaseline. By using this special cream, people can protect themselves. Secondly, we found a natural healer product after getting the disease. And these are the leaves of some fruit trees and the fruits themselves. Therefore, if people use these tradi-tional products, it won’t be necessary to use harmful insecticides. The amount of the harmful gases in the environment will decrease.

607. The helping of nature

Balla Moussa Traore

Mali

Today is increasingly clear to see how the ecosystems that surround human be-ing have been affected by several factors, mainly the anthropomorphic which cause more problems in situations such as increased body mass in people, waste generated by humans on natural resources. All this has led to severe effects to the environment, principally the elements that integrate the biosphere (clima-tological, geological and hydrological), which have affected them to the popu-lation such as health effects on human and in natural disasters that cause loss human and economic. Situations that are manifested by the lack of culture of civil protection for prevention as well as the lack of attention to people about di-saster warnings related to the phenomena that nature presents. So we consider this as the objective of our project: Transcending to the community about the great environmental damages that is caused unconsciously on the ecosystems in which we live.

37. Anthropomorphic factors damage to the biosphere

Santiago Garcia Lomeli

Due to excessive use of polluting fuels, resurfaced alternatives as biogas, re-sulting from biodegradation of organic waste by methanogenic bacteria in an-aerobic environment, composed by methane (70%), carbon dioxide (20-30%) and small amounts of hydrogen, nitrogen, hydrogen sulphide. Objective: Take advantage, this alternative, creating biodigesters (reactors to degrade biomass) adapted on schools, to produce biogas by processing the discarded organic matter at the same institution; analyze the efficiency of organic fertilizer versus chemical fertilizer. To build biodigesters were used: two containers (20 liters), stop cock system, gas output system. But, how useful is the alternative, if only a few countries know it and practice it?. Therefore, it is intented disseminate and share the project through a blogspot and lectures to people in order to forging environmental education, promoting the culture of taking natural alternatives and creating a model of eco-sustainable school to take conscience and amend damage we have caused.

321. ECOmbustible Orgánico

Maria Fernanda Castro

Mexico

Mexico

48


Nowadays energetic drinks have become very popular, and their demand has grown. This situation led to this question: do these energetic drinks cause any mutagenic effect? The objective of this study was to know whether the Arabic mouse’s cells of peripheral blood present cytogenotoxic damage when they are exposed to the chemical components of this product. To determine this effect, an analysis was made to test the number of micronuclei in the polychromatic cells and the toxicity %. The statistical analysis (ANOVA and the Dunett p<0.05 test) allowed us to conclude that the chemical substances that energetic drinks contain causes mutagenic damage and toxicity in the Arabic mouse’s cells of pe-ripheral blood.

542. Citogenotoxicity and teratogenicity of an energy drink in Arabic mice

Estefanía de Allende BecerraElián Vega Galeana

Mexico

The Mechanical Prosthetic Arm applies knowledge on gears and wireless com-munication for the construction of a useful and economical arm for people with different abilities. The main objective is the construction of a mechanical pros-thetic arm with the advantages of being practical, light, useful and affordable, covering the needs of people with physical disabilities and also bringing to any person the economic facility. This prosthesis is controlled and operated with the feet’s movements which allow amplifying the user’s physical faculties. The pro-totype provides structural qualities that allow its modernization and improve-ment. This project was created with the purpose of contributing to social wel-fare; strengthen the self-esteem of those who doesn’t have some of their limbs, given that it is designed to perform the person’s arm natural movements. It is important to highlight that the mechanical arm can be made with recycled ma-terials such as: plastic, wood, metal pieces and plastic gears.

631. Mechanical prosthetic arm

Alejandro Urias Camacho

The water problems around the world, like the one that happened in our last project “Enviromental Emergency: El Ahogado”, where we have determinated the social and environmental problematic of pollution of this zone, were kee-ping it on different stages, this has motivated different governmental actions to solve the problem. Pointing with this, that the problem can’t be forgotten, and having in mind that the problem persists. Now we focus in a larger and nearer area in this zone: The Chapala Lake, it has been exposed to several sources and levels of pollution, like municipal discharges of diferent communities, waters of agricultural return, and residual waters poured by industries, coming from the Lerma river. The principal idea is that environmental problems like the Chapala Lake and basin “El Ahogado” are suffering, can be happenig in many places all around the world at this moment, making a worldwide environmental disaster.

36. Once upon a time in the lake of Chapala

Katia Aldhara Plaza Palacios

Mexico

Mexico

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Actuality of the present project comes from the necessity of energy saving. The project represents a software product for the automated calculation of electric and thermal energy consumed in household use over different periods of time (over a day, month, six months, five years). The program makes the automated calculation of electric and thermal energy as well as their cost. It allows to calcu-late power efficiency and ecological compatibility of the housing. The program contains characteristics of principal household appliances with parameters of their power consumption as well as their usage. If desired the user can enter his data and perform necessary settlements. The project’s author is sure that the worked out program will leave no consumer of blessings of civilization indiffer-ent and will make everybody if not to reckon with global problems energy sa-ving even though to calculate their own costs.

International project abstracts60. The energy efficiency calculations program

Ahmed Umbatov

Numerous bioplastic products have been developed around the world using bio-degradable sources, all in the hope of decreasing global oil production, reducing pollution and diminishing the domination of plastics in our landfills. However, this potential is nowhere near fully utilized. Studies have been conducted to find out the properties of biodegradable raw materials such as corn and potato, but none have specifically targeted the Pinus sibirica. This project sought to find out the feasibility of pine nuts as an alternative raw material for starch-based plastic production. Different variations were utilized to determine whether or not the amount of pine starch and plasticizer affect the properties of the products. Their properties were analyzed physically by employing three tests: flexibility, texture and heat tolerance. The results of the study confirmed that pine starch can be used as an alternative material for producing starch-based plastic.

589. Bio-based organic plastic from pinus sibir-ica

Azjargal NaranbayarDelgermaa Bataa

The freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera has attracted much in-terest in recent years due to its interesting life cycle, ecology, ability to produce valuable pearls and, most importantly, decline which has left many populations extinct or seriously depleted. Mussels are important to food webs, water qua-lity, nutrient cycling, and habitat quality in freshwater ecosystems. They greatly influence food webs by filtering tiny suspended materials such as algae, bacteria, zooplankton, and sediment from the water. Mussels are an important source of food for predators such as river otters and muskrats. Any changing at the envi-ronment such as, heavy metals contamination, ammonia, chlorine level stops their reproduction, shell formation or extra shell ring formation at the their shells, quality nacre formation, pearl quality, filtering property, and many pro-blems until the human health depends on to their filtering quality.

288. An introduction to freshwater mussel pearls as biological indicators, effects of heavy metal and ammonia for the formation of pearl and so-lutions usingolla filiculoides for removing heavy metals and ammonia for better pearls

Oak Soe Aung

Moldova

Mongolia

Myanmar

50

Lawsonia inermis known as henna is a woody and flowering plant found in North Africa and South West Asia. Henna has been reported to have analgesic, hypo-glycemic, hepatoprotective, immunostimulant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral, antiparasitic, antitrypanosomal, antidermato-phytic, antioxidant, antifertility, tuberculostatic and anticancer properties. But these properties using for human. The aim of present study is an attempt to eva-luate the antibacterial property of henna for solving plant problems, using henna versus synthetic pesticides, anti viral property for legumes and other plants and solving fungal problems of plants with the henna. Why henna? Because it has no pesticides, mycocides. Different solvents including ethanol, petroleum ether, chloroform and water were used to prepare extracts of henna leaves. These ex-tract used as a spray and applied directly to the plant leaves. And the results are desirable, it is organic and no side effects.

International project abstracts289. Natural alternatives to synthetic pesticides arthropod control (aphids) by lawsonia inermis (henna) with different solvent extracts anti-bacterial, antiviral and antimycotic property of henna for the plants

Aung Auza KyawSwan Htet Yan Naing

Myanmar

Production of hair shampoo using Eco friendly Cocoa Pods: you have added a document Cocoa pods are a waste in the western part of Nigeria.howerrer re-search has shown that they are rich in potassium hydroxide which is used as lye a raw material for making soaps. Lye is a powerful base (alkali) that can be created using rain water and wood ashes. Lye created from wood ash is potas-sium hydroxide (KOH) whereas commercial lye is composed of sodium hydro-xide (NaOH). Modern chemical engineering has all but replaced the traditional method of producing lye. For many homestead applications the difference in chemical formulae are inconsequential, but there are exceptions. You only need two ingredients to make lye: wood ash and water. Collect rainwater - it should be free of chemicals and excessive mineral levels that are found in city and well water. Using wood ash from broad-leaved hardwood trees will result in better quality

664. Production of hair shampoo using eco friendly cocoa pods

Bunmi ObagbemisoyeOguntimehin Bummi

There has been an increase in the population of people living in the Niger Delta in Nigeria due to discovery of crude oil in that area in the last 30 or so years. this has led to increased agricultural and industrial and other human activities in that area. increased activity has lead to discharge of large quantities of wastes such as pesticides, heavy metals, fertilizers, residues, sewage sludge, atmospheric fallout and transgenic organisms. all these lead to an increase in toxicity in the environ-ment.. the purpose of this study is to identify the sources of pollution and find possible remdiation measures to check their release and effect on the ecosystem.

666. An investigation into environmental pol-lutants in air, soil and water in the Niger Delta and possible remediation measures

Ogidi ChianugoAbadi Tochukwu

Nigeria

Nigeria

51


Industrial waste water contains pollutants such as nickel, cadmium, phenol and lead. This leads cause of many global problems such as oxygen depletion, fish kill, and ecological degradation of aquatic life. This project removal of nickel, cadmium, phenol and lead from industrial water by using tea waste as a natural adsorbent is checked and proved. I prepared sample solutions of lead (Pb), cad-mium (Cd), nickel (Ni) and phenol (C6H5OH) with 5 different concentrations of 5, 10, 15, 30 and 100 mg/l. I performed the experiment using 3 different tea waste adsorbent: 0.5g, 1g, 1.5g I mixed certain amount of each pollutants sample of 5mg/L, 10mg/L, 15mg/L 30mg/L and 100mg/L in synthetic water with certain amount of used tea waste of 0.5g, 1g and 1.5g and waited for specific time of 60 minutes. I have analyzed the different filtrates obtained by a spectrophotometer and recorded the concentration of each pollutant separately.

366. Get the pollutants out: removal of harmful pollutants from industrial waste water by tea waste

Ussama Khan K. Baloch

Pesticides are being used all over the world for many years to save the crops from the pests but these pesticides have many side effects which now become a problem for the world many birds fishes and even human being are affected by these pesticides. In our project we are introducing an environment friendly pesticide which has no side effect and it is very effective against the pests as well as it is also a useful fertilizer. Yes this is the ash of the wood which has the ability to kill the pest or stop their growth and save our crops from these hazardous insects.

598. Enviroment friendly pesticide

Mir Khan Rind

Pakistan

Pakistan

Food preservation is the process of treating and handling food to stop or slow down spoilage and thus allow for longer storage. Preservation usually involves preventing the growth of bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and other micro organisms. Many processes designed to preserve food will involve a number of food pre-servation methods. There are many traditional methods of preserving food that limit the energy inputs as well. Nowadays chemicals are used for preservation of food items. The chemicals with their antimicrobial nature inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi or other microorganisms. But these chemicals also affect the taste and the quality of the food. Instead of these chemicals we decided to use natural products as antimicrobial additives. In this case grapefruit peel is one of the option which is known with antimicrobial character. Also grapefruit stands for a long time without spoiling that’s why we’ve used grapefruit.

603. Preservation of food by grapefruit peels

Muhammad Usama Kiyani

Pakistan

52


The purpose of this project is to provide a comparative analysis to highlight the characteristics of each type of agriculture (organic, traditional, and genetically modified agriculture) in Romania as well as the impact on environment. In order to make this research we used a trowel and the laboratories put at our disposal by the OSPA (Office of Soil Survey and Agrochemical Testing) to analyze the soil sample and the parameters values from DSV (Direction of Health Conditions for food safety). In conclusion, this research helped us realized that not every type of agriculture is proper for all regions. The final results of the project and the effect on the environment is a great motivation for us to make an accurate analysis.

299. Automated system using Artificial Intelli-gence to recognise traffic jams or other natural disasters like hurricanes, fires, etc.

Ionut Alexandru Budisteanu

Romania

Oil spills is a form of pollution which is difficult and complicated to deal with. Cleanup and recovery from an oil spill is difficult and depends upon many fac-tors, including the type of oil spilled, the temperature of the water and the types of shorelines and beaches involved. Oil spill is a form of pollution. The term often refers to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters but oil spills account for only about five percent of the oil entering the oceans. The Coast Guard estimates that for United States waters sewage treatment plants discharge twice as much oil each year as tanker spills. So cleaning up oil spills from water is an important environmental issue. In our project we tried to find a practical way to solve this problem. Using basic principles of fluid mecha-nics and magnetism, a simple but effective method.

747. Oil spill cleanup electromagnetically

C. Diana Ioana AnastaseOnu D. Crina Florinel

The purpose of this project is to provide a comparative analysis to highlight the characteristics of each type of agriculture (organic, traditional, and genetically modified agriculture) in Romania as well as the impact on environment. In order to make this research we used a trowel and the laboratories put at our disposal by the OSPA (Office of Soil Survey and Agrochemical Testing) to analyze the soil sample and the parameters values from DSV (Direction of Health Conditions for food safety). In conclusion, this research helped us realized that not every type of agriculture is proper for all regions. The final results of the project and the effect on the environment is a great motivation for us to make an accurate analysis.

571. Comparative analysis of the different types of agriculture

Claudia Ioana Maria ZeicuMihalcea Alexandra

Romania

Romania

53

Our project is about nanotecnology in enviroment and medicine. How nanotec-nology can be green and how nanotecnology can help in our ecosystem.

International project abstracts572. Enviromental nanotechnology

Laura LagoAmelia Campos

In our project Domotic and environment we are going to explain few things about the domotic; the domotic or home automation is the advanced funciona-lity provided by the control system of a home. The control system is a compute-rized and intelligent network of electronic devices, sensors and actuators that will monitor and control the mechanical and lightning systems in the house. We are going to guide it to the environment, because researching about domotic we had noticed that it is possible to save a lot of energy using this system and au-tomating a lot of actions in a house. Adittionally we have guided the project for disabled people or with some physical limitations because with domotic, we can make their life easier. Then to use the elements of our domotic system we are go-ing to use an application that mix a pressure carpet and a software called TICO.

583. Domotic and enviroment

Antonio PérezVictor Loscos

In Dushanbe one of the most important issues is Water problem. It comes ex-pensive to use powerful filters everywhere in areas in which channels are being polluted. There are different dangerous impacts of channel water pollution in citizens of our state Dushanbe. With the purpose of prevention of our citizens in Province- Dushanbe we decided to make an effort in finding out solution of cleaning leakage (channel) water from bulky garbage by using paddle wheel. Channel paddle wheel is the first cheapest and effective channel water garbage collecting method in the world. It helps water to be filtered and collected au-tomatically to a container that is unloaded weekly (or monthly). It helps also to avoid people from different sickness. Water filterer collects garbage mechani-cally with the power of water leakage only. So it is free from any charge, however it is economically profitable when some organic wastes are used as fertilizer and recycling materials.

346. Cleaning of channel water by using paddle wheels

Bezhan KhudoyarovKhayom Mudugov

Spain

Spain

Tajikistan

54

It was noted that in the surroundings of Tajik aluminum plant there is air pollu-tion, water degradation, soil contamination, food destruction and general envi-ronmental degradation. All these factors are negatively reflected on the health of local population. The factory’s wastes include highly toxic substances such as hydrogen fluoride, sulfuric anhydrate, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants such as: copper and chromium. However, microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, algae and yeast are known to tolerate and accumulate heavy metals as well as some plants. The first objective of the present study was to use rhizobus, mucor fungi group and allium cepa, lactuca sativa plants which showed the best tole-rance and absorption capacity, were used in the practical cleaning of a polluted area. The second objective of us was to use the non-useful products of previous experiments for organic fertilizers in the cultivation of other plants such as le-gumes which need heavy metals in a particular level.

International project abstracts584. Bioremoval of ecotoxicological impact of heavy metals by the use of microfungi and com-mon vegetables in Hisor Valley in Tajikistan

Amonullo AbdulloevPiran Ahmedov

Pesticides USES: In our world most important working area is agriculture since, our life depends on it. So getting enough and fresh food is one of the most im-portant problems for our world. In the world each year more than one million tons chemicals are used as pesticides and also billion dollars are spending for these chemicals which are used direct pay, health cost, environmental problems and also time loosing. In our searching, we found that there are two important mistakes on pesticides uses; one is pH effect which mean that pH of water di-rectly affect our pesticides efficiency. And other is Pesticide handlers often like to combine two or more pesticides and apply them at the same time. Such mix-tures, often called tank mixes, can save time, labour, and fuel. These properties must be displayed on label of pesticides.

489. The novel pesticides labelling system

Iskandar KarimovOzar Tufalonov

Energy production and cleaning the environment is very important in the world. Our project is about taking pure water of Lake Sarez, producing electricity and using the water for people and irrigation, which is already a potential danger for about 6 million people. Lake Sarez has a volume of nearly 17 billion cubic meters The natural dam (called the ‘usoi’) which holds back the lake is located at an altitude of 3200 meters. It is the highest natural dam in the world. Our aim is to remove pure water by using large water pipes over the usoi dam and produ-cing the electricity. Because of possible landslide, dynamite or other explosive methods are not suitable over the usoi dam. In our project a system similar to the siphoning could be used and water can be removed slowly and safely.

656. Sarez Lake - catastrophy turns to energy and useful water

Dilshod AgishevMehriddin Gulomov

Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan

55

Cashew nuts come from the southern region of Tanzania, Mtwara. During their processing, the shells of the cashew nuts are removed and thrown away as waste. We have therefore taken it upon us to reuse these wastes (i.e. the shells) to produce charcoal and use it for the benefit of the environment.

International project abstracts383. Miracles of cashew nut shell (how one waste converted to three best)

Alwi Habib Nuru

Recently human beings use the vehicle which requires petrol products to be operated for transport and this definitely pollutes our environment by emitting poisonous gasses such as Carbon Monoxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxide, etc. In this research we designed a vehicle which has clean technology that gives minimum harm to environment, uses energy efficiently and also conserves en-ergy.

417. Direct drive environment friendly vehicle

Hafidh Juma AmeirNassor Mattar Nassor Al Tiwany

Due to poor living conditions, the majority of Tanzanians suffer from malaria -a preventable disease that can have a serious negative impact on pregnant women and young children. Zanzibar is a typical malaria endemic area. Malaria is the number one killer among children in Tanzania. Mothers who contract ma-laria during pregnancy run the risk of having low birth weight babies, maternal anemia, impaired fetal growth, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, and prema-ture babies. In this research we mainly focus on how to prevent Malaria by using lemon grass and its products in Zanzibar Island in Tanzania.

585. Natural mosquito repellent: lemon grass

Mahfoudh Farid MahfoudhMubeen Nadir Mohammed

Tanzania

Tanzania

Tanzania

56

Science project “Efficiency Brazier walls reflect heat from the Recycled materials” is to study of the recycled material that is the best retaining the heat and the process of making the high efficiency brazier. Because nowadays the amount of cutting down wood is increasing day by day because of high demand of wood products. So it causes scarce resources. Therefore we use wood for many needs of our life, such as building houses, producing paper, making pencils and other educational equipment. Also we use them as firework and charcoal. The produ-cers realize that there is a way to reduce the using all the environment problems will be lowered.

International project abstracts276. Efficiency brazier walls reflect heat from the recycled materials

Sirisopa HoffmannKunlanit Chaodamrong

The purpose of this study is to determine the potential of copper absorption of Monoraphidium sp. and Scenedesmus sp. as a new alternative method bio-logical wastewater treatment. Two microalgae species, Monoraphidium sp. and Scenedesmus sp. were used. Microalgae was cultured in Jaworski’s medium (JM) with copper concentration of 0.21 and 0.29 mg/l. The growth of cultured objects was measured by optical density (OD 665 nm) and whole count method. It was found that at the end of the test, the copper quantity in the medium with of 0.21 and 0.29 mg/l concentration used to culture Scenedesmus sp. became 0.13 and 0.20 mg/l respectively. The copper decrease equaled to 38.10 % and 31.03 % respectively. For the JM used to culture Monoraphidium sp.

537. Potential of copper absorption of mono-raphidium sp. and scenedesmus sp.

Nattaphorn Buayam

Thailand

Thailand

Studies for protection against corrosion, which has become more important as industrialization emerged and become a load on the national economy, form the basis of fighting corrosion. In this study, the purpose was to prepare durable coatings which are resistant against corrosion and abrasion, and can decrease the rate of corrosion on iron. For this purpose, we used natural tannin, which we have chosen as an inhibitor for iron (st37), on the acrylic insulation material “butyl acrylate – styrene” copolymer in different concentrations and conducted accelerated corrosion experiments in chlorine environment. While the inhibition activity of intrinsic insulation materials was 41%; this rate was 95% for coating containing 2% and 10% of tannin and 89% for coating containing 5% of tannin. The addition of tannin increased the anti-corrosive effect of the coating as well as the efficiency of the barrier formed against corrosion and acted as an inhibitor.

141. Observing the inhibition effect of tannin-added acricultural raw materials and zeolite

Yusra Salman

Turkey

57


In this project it is aimed to produce nanofibers from PVA/water with a high cy-lindirical collector rate at 5000, 6000 and 7000 rpm and compare their orienta-tion and tensile strength. When the SEM pictures were examined the orienta-tion of nanofibers at 5000 and 6000 rpm are unordered but nanofibers at 7000 rpm are more aligned. Average fibre diameters of nanofibres obtained by 16% by mass solution of PVA/water by using electrospinning were 245 nm at 5000 and 6000 rpm but 240 nm at 7000 rpm. As the spinning rate of the disc collec-tor increased the elasticity, stress at max force and tensile strength at break for nanofibers inreased. Results verify our hypothesis.

231. Stronger nanofibers at higher cylinderical collector rates in electrospinning process

Mustafa Rusen OzorucAsya Kadic

Turkey

The purpose of the project is to produce umbrellas which provide benefit from sunlight without harm to people, also we aimed to inform people about dama-ges of sunscreen and raise awareness about it. People use sunscreen for protec-tion from UV because UV radiation causes chronic skin, eye and immune disea-ses, mostly skin cancer. But sunscreens are almost more dangerous than UV. We made an experiment to find out how fish and marine gastropod respond to the sunscreen. We repeated this experiment many times with different grammages of sunscreen. We got the same results. With this we proved fishermen’s observa-tion. If people shouldn’t use sunscreen than what should they do. Because UV radiations are too dangerous to ignore. We experimented on the protectiveness of umbrellas that we produced. First we used five coverings in different types that absorb UV. We covered glasses and made several absorption spectrum mea-surements. Then we chose the most advantageous.

135. The damages of sunscreen and protection ways from ultraviolet rays (uv) “without” sun-screen

Handenur CaliskanBengisu Omercioglu

From past to present, humanity has faced significant losses of life result of oc-curing injuries for various reasons. Some of the herbal and chemical substance which are using to stop bleeding are hazardous substances on human health. I have worked for progress on a biocompatible substance which doesnt cause a permanent damage. Coagulation factor plays very big role in the prevention of bleeding. Thrombin immobilized to calcium alginate beads for this objective. Result of optimization work on 5calcium alginate beads: pH5, EDC 3mg, starter thrombin activity 0,6U, incubation time 1hour, incubation heat 37°C was in cal-cium alginate beads activation with EDC. I’ve seen bleeding was 50% less. Re-calcification test results showed us developed product can reduce the bleeding time. Our new product is better than the other smilar product, because biocom-patible, easy to prepare and economic. Product is easy to use and important for first treatment.

244. Thrombin immobilized alginate based medical product that reduce coagulation time: new generation band aid

Özce Durak

Turkey

Turkey

58


Wheat germ is known as “the golden secret of nature, the heart of the wheat, and the life source“. Wheat germ has natural vitamin E and is known as “embryo“ in Turkey. This substance provides for the reproduction and germination of seeds. It contains many nutritional derivatives such as vitamins A, E, B1, folic acid, phos-phorus, thiamin, zinc, magnesium, manganese, and chrome. It has a high fiber value and gives the feeling of satiation. To produce 1kg of wheat germ it takes 1000 kg’s of wheat. Wheat germ is not well known in Turkey; therefore, it is not consumed as much. In Europe and the USA, it is consumed commonly and con-sumption is suggested for every age group. Only “celiac patients” and others, that aren’t supposed to consume fibers, should avoid wheat germ. In thıs study, our aim was to draw attention to the evalution of wheat germ.

409. Assessing the waste of wheat germ, the heart of wheat

Sezin ErsoyEge Mehmet Akman

Turkey

The salination degree of some fields of Dashoguz state is high. But looking at this situation, it is inappropriate to leave these fields. Plants generally get their nutri-tion from soil and soil solutions. Assimilation of nutrition significantly depends on concentration of soil solution and salt balance. We made some research on ni-trate ion absorption degrees of plants on salinated soil and normal soil samples in some lands of Dashoguz state. Nitrogen and other elements are absorbed by the roots of the plants. The 4 samples were taken in order to grow the plants in different kinds of soil. Boiled, filtered solutions’ pH amount was measured, and the results were taken. The soil samples were placed in special containers and the wheat was planted in the containers. After 30 days the growth of the wheat was examined with «НИТРАТ тест» machine and the measurements and the re-sults were taken.

454. Research on nitrate ion absorption degree of plants in salinated soils of Dashoguz state

Alisher MatyakubovIlyas Rashidov

City population growth rate precedes world population growth rate at 1,5-2 times. City population composes 40% of world population. As it is known, the air of big cities comprises 10 times more aerosol and 25 times more different gases. More over 60-70% of air pollution is made by traffic. At the result, it brings chan-ges in the city’s microclimate. For this reason the wind is rare in interior parts of the city and increased humidity along with decreased ultra-red rays gives rise to multiply of illness-bearing bacteria. Plants stabilize cities climate. When we say plants we don’t merely mean cultivated plants. They are wood, park, lawn and trees. Sometimes, plants thatdoesn’t suit to a particular environment are planted and they demand care which results in dry out. In our city (Dashoguz) this parti-cularly results in salinization of soil and changes in underground water resources.

529. Environmental condition of Dashoguz city and its suburbs

Suray HudaykulyevaOgulsoltan Soyunova

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

59


Besides the harmful effect of animal poison it is also used for curing some di-seases because of its beneficial natural ingredients. One of the useful poisons is bee sting. Most of the human beings believe that honey is useful but sting is not. But recent researches show that not only honey and but also poison is beneficial because both of them are used for treatment of some diseases. The most recent researches show that dead bees are also used as therapeutics to treat some di-seases. In addition, specially prepared solution by boiling them is also used as antibacterial agent to kill streptococci. But, there is a big problem for getting bee sting without killing them. To solve this problem, I have designed Bee Sting Machine (BSM). It is made up of two parts: sound generator and poison collector. By this way, we get pure bee poison without killing them.

550. New designed bee sting machine (bsm) and usage of dead bees in medicine

Nurgeldi BazarovBerdimuhammet Annageldiyev

Turkmenistan

Energy, fresh water requirement and air and environmental pollutions are vi-tally important problems. So we designed this project to suggest a very efficient way for solving these problems. We designed A Smart and Environment-friendly house (SmartEcoHouse-SEH) which consumes very little amount of energy pro-duced from natural sources without emission of pollutants and water with almost no release of wastes into environment. In our project, many important old and new environmental-friendly techniquescategorized into five (5) groups accor-ding to their functional similarities are used. 1. Getting energy from natural sour-ces without emission of any kind of pollutants. 2.Reducing energy consumption. 3. Reducing removal of waste water. 4. Recycling of used materials. 5. Different functions accordingly. In our project, there are many different discoveries to save energy and to protect environment by using natural sources without emission of harmful materials. Although construction of extraordinary SmartEcoHouse is expensive, I strongly suggest making extraordinary SEH instead ordinary house.

551. Environment-friendly smart-eco-house

Guvanch CharyyevSylapberdi Bayjanov

The aim of my work is to analize the situation of thown out plastic in my city of Bolgrad, Odessa (Ukraine) region and to model a factory for its processing. The structure of my work is as follows: theoretical part, the survey, the analyzing of thrown out plastic waste, scheme of the manufactory for sorting and crushing plastic, the installation for processing plastics into ready to use diesel fuel, gas-oline and soot based on catalytic cracking and pyrolisis, the 3D modeling of the factory, the building of the factory, a list of literature used and an appendix. The work is done in 41 pages.

570. Engineering a factory for processing plas-tic waste into diesel fuel, gasoline and soot

Pavel Dolgotyor

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

60


Transportation of oil with tankers is connected with possible unforeseen spills of oil products which will cause oil slicks on the water surface. To reduce the envi-ronmental damage from possible accident, we have to limit these slicks on water, and then utilize them. There are various devices for protecting coastal areas from oil spills with a view to evacuating them in a less dangerous place. Their main problem is the necessity of permanent protection units and their maintaining with additional facilities. We have designed a device that limits the leakage area of oil slick immediately after hitting it on the surface of water. The method of limiting surface of the oil slick prevents an environmental disaster, using conve-nient metal floats.

623. Methods of preventing the water pollution with oil products by limiting the surface area of oil slick and moving oil from submerged tanker

Artem Mateush Igor Zinchenko

Ukraine

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons are major environmental pollutants. In this re-search we studied whether or not fish bone apatite and fish bone apatite mixed with 6% iron oxide amendment accelerates the degradation of PAH’s. Soil sam-ples were sieved and subjected to partition extraction process. The fraction con-taining the PAH’s evaporated to a volume of 0.5 milliliters by bubbling nitrogen gas through the sample. The final samples were analyzed by chromatography mass spectrometry. Results show that five out of seven studied PAHs degraded to a higher degree in both treated (T) and untreated (U) soil samples compared to iron oxide (Fe6) soil samples. This observation could be explained by the lower red-ox potential of Fe6 soil which might have prevented reduction of PAH mo-lecules, by either iron- or sulfate-reducing bacteria or both.

195. The effect of bioremediation of soil with fishbone on the amount of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Samantha TurnquestCourtney Chavis

Metal contamination in drinking water is a global concern in remote areas with-out infrastructure. The purpose was to create magnetite from rust to test for reduced levels of cadmium and arsenic from lake and deionized water. The hy-pothesis was that magnetite could reduce these concentration levels. Magnetite was created out of dried soap, vinegar, water, and rust. The metals were tested in the two waters with two different concentrations (10 and 15ppb). Controls contained no magnetite. They were placed in tubes and placed on shaker. Metal concentrations were determined. The magnetite removed approximately 78% of cadmium from lake water, 52% from deionized water and approximately 64% of arsenic from lake water, 9% from deionized water. The hypothesis was cor-rect and all data was statistically significant. The use of common items to sustain drinking water is a step towards achieving potable water to those lacking acces-sibility to electricity and water systems.

392. The potential use of turning rust into mag-netite nanoparticles to reduce levels of cad-mium and arsenic (v) from lake and deionized water

Autumn Rose Greenfield

United States of America

United States of America

61

212. Sustainable cooking

Dutch project abstracts

Electrospinning is a very simple, cost-effective and versatile process to produce functional nanofibers from various polymers, polymer blends, sol-gels, compo-sites and metal oxides. Moreover, improvement of nanofibers functionality be-comes more of an issue by adding functional additives into polymer matrix. As an example; TiO2 nanoparticles are used for this purpose because of its exceptional properties such as long-term stability, nontoxicity, and photocatalytic activity. After the electrospinning process, the PVP/TiO2 nanofibers were calcinated in an oven for the formation of pure anatase TiO2 nanofibers. The TiO2 nanofibers were analyzed by SEM, TEM, XRD and EDX. These TiO2 nanostructures are com-bined with polymeric spheres by emulsion polymerization and trapped by two filtration unit in glass chamber. Then, UV light is exposed to dirty water includes these photocatalytic nanocomposites in order to purification of water.

696. Highly photocatalytic nanocomposites for water purification system

Furkan BulbulTunahan Turna Halil Ibrahim DingerMuhammed Oztan

Some people cook every day, some people cook once a month, but everyone cooks sometimes. Most people cook without thinking about how much energy they actually use. We hear people talking about sustainable meat and vegetables and you can find a lot of information about these subjects, but there isn’t a lot of information about the energy you use when you cook. And that while a few simple things can save a lot of energy. One of the things we discovered in our project is that there’s a possibility to cook everything in one pan by just using a colander. And without losing taste! You use only 35% of the energy of what you normally use. When each household cooks in this way once a week, we save in the Netherlands 38,6 million euros a year. It’s easy for everyone, because you only need a colander.

Kim van den EijndenJanine Hageman

Sint Joris College

Gymnasium Juvenaat

The fuel cell provides a combination of advantages that will lead to a place in the future World of energy. It is an efficient source of energy and produces extremely low exhaust fumes. It also has few moving parts and a potential long life span with low costs of maintenance . Nowadays more companies are making progress considering the use of fuell cells- Cars with fuel cell engines have the potential to be clean and silent- which will lead to a clean and better (less vulnerable) envi-ronment. The world is therefore now ready for the introduction of fuel cell tech-nology. In 1995 it first became clear that fuel cell technology was worth looking to. In the 21th century, it could become the only possible solution.

712. The fuel cell

Abdurrahman Celik

Leidscherein College

62

224. Environmentally friendly red ink


Solar Water Heater - It makes me warm! A solar water heater is an appliance which you can use to warm your water with help of sun radiation. Our plan was to make an existing solar heater more efficient, and to lower the costs of building one so people who live in warm areas can warm their water easily and cheap. Cold water (A) runs through an isolated vessel (B), it goes through the solar col-lector (C) heated by solar radiation (D), where the water in the vessel is heated and hot water can be released (E). The water temperature in the vessel is at the top (F +) higher than the water at the bottom of the vessel (G-). What are the pos-sibilities for performance improvement? Much light is not used because it is not well absorbed. We want to improve this.

702. Solar-water-heater

Joel LandJelle van Dijk

Ink is harmful for the environmentally and for the human health, because it con-tains volatile organic compounds (VOC) and heavy metals. Therefore we have thought about it. We have found an alternative. We have made ink from red fruit: paprika powder, red cabbage and cherry tomatoes. Thereof paprika powder was the best one. The ingredients are: steel wool, green soap, vinegar, potato starch, tea and the paint from the fruits.

Coriena de Heer Suzanne Maljaars

Nuborgh College

Calvijn College

A solar cooker is a device the uses solar-radiation to heat the food and even to boil water. We have some new ideas to improve the solar cooker. We will de-monstrate how to use the solarcooker and make a short manual with only simple drawings. We also have plans to spread the knowledge of ‘’how tot use a solar-cooker’’ tot people living in places where the sun-intensity is sufficient.

371. Solar cooker improvement

Danny HoltusJoachim van de Weg

Nuborgh College

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700. From GHG to sustainable energy


Daily millions people in Africa must run obtain water. Africa surrounded with ma-rine water. On the most places the much rain. But by financial problems they can exploit sea water and rain water not well. We have considered a project in which we can this way cheap and environmental possible sea filter water. We want use also of sun energy. We want build an installation in which the marine water is transported by environmental resources to the tanks. Then it will be sifted by a filter as a result of which we of the dirty. In the next step water will be warmed up using sun energy. Of course is this not enough water let cook. For reason we use external warmth to distil water. We condense to mist which we catch as a result of which we drinking water have won marine water without salt.

657. Water in Africa

Hilal SofuAllysha Sewradj

It is possible to catch methane-gases from cow manure and use that as fuel: called Biogas. The cow manure gets mixed with water or urine. This mixture is then set in a large concrete tank. The gas gets formed here by its self. Because the density of the gas is lower than the manure, the gas arises. All the arisen are caught in the upper layer that again is connected with the tube leading to the house. This tube is connected to a faucet so it is possible to use the gas when needed.

Duha Durmus Fatmanur Uyar

Cosmicus Montessori Lyceum


We want to catch cow farts through pipes and exhausters. Scientific sources has shown that cow farts includes methane and nitrous oxide. Methane is lighter than oxygen but nitrous oxide heavier than oxygen. Methane is 23 as worse than CO2 and nitrous oxide 310 as worse than CO2. Scientific sources has shown that oregano works well against cow farting. These studies also show that the more animals you fattening the more harmful substances are released during their farts and poop. we want exhausters to absorb gasses, purify and re-use in cylinders.

295. Catch cow farts

Ronald EversJelmer Jobse

Calvijn College

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709. Efficient sunray usage


The use of manure for the digestion of biomass can be optimized by preproces-sing the biomass. This research concentrates on the digestion of roadside grass. This type of grass is not used for feeding the cattle and has no other usefull pur-pose. However, digestion of thsi grass is very hard. In our research we preprocess the grass in different ways in order to take lignin out of the grass. Lignin is a mo-lecule in grass cells. In this research we want to find a way to remove the lignin and digest the grass even better. If there is a cheap way of removing the lignin, we could digest grass and save a lot of money on the mowing. Preprocessing can be boiling, grinding or cutting the grass, which could all lead to a better biogas production.

708. Optimizing biogas output by pre-process-ing biomass

Arnout FrankenMarc LamainBryan Verveld

After researching we found out that people don’t use the sun very smart. They are forgetting about the UV radiation, which is invisible to our eyes. The solar panels these days are way too expensive, they are only getting useful after many years. We found the solution to these problems with our ESU (Efficient Sunray Usage) project. We made “UV windows” which convert UV radiation into visible light and a special kind of paint on a transparent material which bends the sun-rays that come into the material to come out of the sides of it.

Sergey Dragomiretskiy Esmee Koopman Bram van den Pol Timon van Zijp

Bonhoeffer College

Bonhoeffer College

We have idea that can make the difference between a stinking rotten world with-out live and a world that’s a better place (without killing gasses and cow’s). I am talking of course about the “vacuum engine”. It’s a series of pumps put in work by electricity that will put a vacuum go around to pull the thing that will let the wheels rotate in a moving way. See the drawing of the system at the annex. The size of one pump will between a tea cup and a bottle water. And there is no push out.

701. Vacuüm motor

Thijs Vermeijden Rover Vos Stijn van Batum Daniel Bons


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723. Power plant


We think the desert is the next place to farm and produce energy. Our idea, is to build an energy plant, combined with a glass house in the desert. We use the one thing that deserts have: the sun. We achieve electricity production through the heating of high towers by mirrors, that reflect sunlight onto a tower. On top of the tower, there is a block of salt, which becomes really hot and turns water into steam. This steam goes through a set of steam turbines, which are connected to dynamos that make electricity. With the excess sunlight of the towers, a basin of seawater is heated. This water evaporates and is captured. This way, the water is cleaned from the worst pollution. The water is brought to glass houses, where it is used for growing plants. This way we put dead land at work

715. Dead land at work

Duco van Buuren Reinoud PinoAnne BreurMaarten Besten

In this world, we have a problem with the environment. Our fossil fuels will be gone in a few years. So we need new energy sources. That’s why we’ve got this idea. Almost all the energy we spend is generated out of fossil fuels and they generate al lot of CO2. With this new and durable energy source, we can solve both of the problems. We thought it would be a good idea to look at the possi-bilities of this energy source. We’re looking for a way to use it on a large scale. We were thinking about using this technique in the Amazon jungle, to produce a lot of energy at a time. If you fill one m2 with grasses you can generate 3 watt. So a m2 in the Amazon generates just as much, we could generate 7.000.000.000.000 m2 times 3 watt equals 21.000.000.000.000 watt continuously.

Veerle Dijkstra Hans Jan WesterhofRick Westland Jan Willem Mijnheer

Bataafs Lyceum

Bataafs Lyceum

This report presents a new way of lighting highways. An energy neutral sensor measures if cars drive over it by using magnetism.The lampposts only turn on when there’s a car nearby that requires it. As the sensor we use a vertical coil in the pavement. When a car drives over it, electrical power is generated. On this signal the lampposts turn on. We’ve altered the lampposts themselves a bit too. The lampposts we use contain 12.5 watt LED lamps, with a faster response and a longer lifetime than the usual low pressure sodium lamps. Solar panels are also installed on every lamppost so that more than enough energy is generated. The paybacktime is eleven years and no external power is needed after the construc-tion is completed. Using our idea at a new highway will cost 8500 euros per kilo-meter, only 0,057% above the regular construction costs.

710. Selective street lighting on solar energy

Karina Boekhoudt Floris Cornel Remy Maseland

Bonhoeffer College

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728. The Capillary action


Our projects intention is to clean water in poor countries with filters that prevent people from catching diseases like diarrhea that will lower the death rate. If less people get infected by diseases there will be needed less vaccinations so rich countries won’t have to send much vaccinations to poor lands which will save money. With this money we could build houses and schools so every kid can be educated cause vaccinations cost very much. Big companies will build shops and other needed buildings in this poor countries so the welfare of that countries will also go up. There also will be more and better jobs to take. This can all happen by cleaning their water.

727. Water factory

Nilofar SekandarMelanie BlumeKars Veldkamp Menno van Houten

We want to generate energy with the capillary performance of water. To generate energy with this device you don’t have to use a lot of materials. The materials you do need are very cheap, so it isn’t very expensive. Our idea was to bring up water by using a bundle of capillairs. When the water has reached the desired hight, the capillair is bend down a bit. Then the water will attach to a little needle in the end of a capillair. The water will fall off the needle. The falling water will reach a water wheel. The wheel will spin and that will generate energy. The generated energy will be stored in a Storage Battery. The proces will continue, without any other ef-fort. The reason why this is a good idea is that you pratically dont need anything and it doesn’t need any energy to work.

Lilian BerenpasMarijn BorninkhofChris BuijvoetsJoris Schuuring

Bataafs Lyceum

Bataafs Lyceum

Nowadays there are tons of big factories and cars out in the World, especially in the big cities. Those factories and cars leave dangerous toxic substances in the air. Those substances react with water in the atmosphere and uv-rays of the sun. This is, in short, how smog is created. Smog is a danger to us all. It contains a lot of dangerous substances that react and cause things like ozon near the ground. This can be a problem for a lot of people, because they inhale such substances from the air. Smog mainly arises when there’s no strong wind that can prevent a large density of a certain dangerous substance. So we came with a solution: big fans. We designed a stylish fans on top of big skyscrapers and other buildings in a city.

724. Smog - blow it away

Michiel Wiggers Anne KoningJorn Quattrocchi Jesse de Boer

Bataafs Lyceum

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427. Sea pollution by oil


What is biodiesel? Biodiesel is made from pure vegetable oil, but with a chemi-cal additive. Methanol must ensure that the vegetable oil less viscous. This may simply be started with low temperatures. However, the chemical methanol has a downside: this component will wear out much sooner. Every year, the tiles must be replaced by the diesel pump. The use of pure vegetable oil without the chemi-cal additives so, the government wants to stimulate not. In the Netherlands only a few people and companies that need the approval.

729. Sunflower oil fuel

Raouf Taha Tfaï Ishak Perk Fatih Topal Ibrahim Bal

Like we all know, is there a lot of oil in the sea. But what most of us do not know, is that 47% of all the oil in the sea there because of the natural oil leaks in our seabottom. We want to absorb the oil from the source, separate it from the water and make biological fuel of it.

Tessa van GemerenLinda Huiskamp

Hervormd Lyceum West

Het Assink Lyceum

The greenhouse effect is a big problem which concerns the whole world. The greenhouse effect causes changes in the climate all over the world. By compa-ring most common protein sources with our new alternatives (insects & algae) we can investigate which protein source can feed the world in the future. Diffe-rent protein sources have different needs. Energy consumption, the amount of space and food needed, those are the things you have to deal with. But which protein source is most durable? Cows. First of all, if you want to use cows for pro-tein source you need a lot of space. Lots of farmers have 0,25 hectare land per cow. They eat 40-100 kilogram a week and drink 150 liter water a week. The re-quired machines produce a lot of greenhouse gases, the cow also produces al lot of bad gas. The cow produces 300 gram methane gas each day.

323. Protein sources

Alwin van der LoopSjoerd Veenstra

Ds. Piersoncollege

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670. Anoxic waters


Due to the desertification and urbanization in the world over the past years, man-made deserts are expanding at an alarming rate of 75 m² per day. That is approximately the average square surface of our houses! Bases on the teaching of Masanobu Fukuoka, we have ‘’updated’’ the One-Straw Revolution. Our idea is to expand the first technique of natural farming: seed bombing. Back in the day before anarchists were throwing clay balls in our gardens, Fukuoka used these balls to slowly but effectively reprogram the ecosystem where we live together with insects, plants and other organisms. We have continued from here with ex-perimenting with different kinds of soil in the Netherlands. Podzol is the most compatible and strongest type of clay you can find in Northern Europe. We are determined that this will be the next big step in guerrilla gardening.

713. Advanced seed farming

Furkan KarapinarMehmet Yildiz

Situation and problem to solve: Dead zones, also called anoxic waters are oxy-gen-depleted areas that can be found all over the world. One of the causes for these anoxic waters is euthrophication, which is a result of an increase in chemi-cals in water. Eutrophication is also caused by natural causes such as coastal up-welling and a change in wind patterns and in water circulation. A concerning consequence is hypoxia, because of oxygen depletion organisms die. In less than twenty years the oceanic deadzones have increased in size and the number has grown from 162 to 405 zones. Oceanic areas that are known to be ‘dead’ can be restored. This can be done in several ways. More and more dead zones occur, this number can be reduced. If farmers stop dumping chemical fertilizers into the ocean, which causes the main cause eutrophication, a big aspect would be dealt with.

Veerle RookLaura van der LastMaaike Haagen

St. Gregorius College

Farel College

People that live in warm and dry climate countries often have trouble farming their own food. This is, on a large scale, a big problem since many people live in areas like these. Import costs too much for these people, of which many are considered ‘poor’. This means that they often can’t buy food, and don’t have the experience to farm themselves. They will often even have lack of food, making it hard to live. We hope that with our help there will be more food for those people in the future, which they have grown themselves or bought from the local farmer (this is cheaper than imported food, of course).

671. Grow crops in dry areas

Jochem RaatsMartijn DamPascal Muskee

Farel College

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307. Promotion eco-friendly meat


Description of project: Make more countries use deposits because it’s better for the environment. In Holland we use deposits and we think it would even be bet-ter to let more countries use deposits. The idea behind deposits is to hand in/sub-mit beer bottles, plastic bottles and beer crates (with beer bottles in it) to reuse them by melting them into new bottles instead of cleaning them. The other idea is to keep the price of packaging materials low. Description of problem: The problem is that in most western countries, unlike Holland, have the wrong mindset. They simply throw away their plastic bottles. Which is not good for economy, they have to reproduce these bottles every time. It is also bad for the environment, because it takes a lot of oil to produce so many plastic bottles.

699. Recycle by deposits

Jason van FeliusDaan van GorpRianne AchterbergTim Commandeur

According to a survey of ‘varkens in nood\’ is eco-friendly meat still on ave-rage 80% more expensive than normal meat! This leads to fewer people buy eco-friendly meat by the price difference. If we ensure that eco-friendly meat is cheaper, will that lead to more buyers of eco-friendly meat. And that ensure a better environment. We have a plan to ensure that eco-friendly meat become cheaper. This plan will be explained later in this report. It’s going to be a main line of the plan, small changes can still occurs. The plan is based on the Dutch tax-system. So in short : We want to make eco-friendly meat cheaper and ‘normal’ meat more expensive with the aid of a tax system.Mark Joosse

Bas Meeuse

Farel College

Calvijn College

A design of a house, completely independent from the rest of the world. The house provides its own energy, food and water. All wastes are turned into harm-less substances that will be returned to nature or recycled. Therefore all the as-pects that are needed for this process are taken into account while designing the house. However we have ensured that, despite these obstacles, the house looks attractive and it will be a pleasure to live in. Yet we made the design as if the house is in a community of families with their own features. For example one cul-tivates grain, while another family will keep bees. The family in our house keeps cows for milk and meat that will supply the whole community. In the future we will need more and more houses built this way to protect the earth against global warming. Thus it’s a house of the future.

707. Natural living

Cathelijne KoksKim Wandel

Stedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem

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249. Desertbloom


Our life is based on electricity. Without electricity we won’t live such a life as we do now. Our sources for electricity are now fossil fuels, and they are nearly used up. Our idea can be a part of the solution for this problem. We are going to gene-rate electricity from waves. We do this by putting a big air balloon on the waves. If you have ever tried to put a beach ball in the water, you will have noticed that it comes up immediately. This is basically the principle our model uses, and we have done improvements to make the waves higher, and generate more electri-city.

309. WavEnergy

Bart FluitWouter BootRobert de Bruijne

The dessert, it’s very dry. Dust storms are regulary part of the desert. The dessert is such dry that we think, we have to irrigate the dessert. But how? We think there is enough water in the Mediterranean Sea, but that water is salt. And salt water isn’t good for people, not good for the plants and for the animals. We have to desalt the water. And again: But how? We have for that problem a idea.Niels Verhaar

Christina Poppe

Calvijn College

Calvijn College

Our INESPO project is about solving water problems, using solar power. Filthy water is a big problem in countries like Ethiopia. There are a lot of diseases in the water. To solve this, different organisations have helped to place wells in a lot of villages. Unfortunately, these wells aren’t indestructible and because of these broken wells some people have to walk distances of over 10 miles to the nearest village which still has a working well! We want to make sure that these wells are repaired. To help the Ethiopians we have thought of a workshop, which can be given in the small villages. We will use a small show model to teach them about the different parts and how to repair the broken pump.

726. Water problems in Ethiopia

Kim HaverlagJulian Buissant des AmorieJoyce KruytMaarten van Schalm

Farel College

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697. Charge any USB device by riding your bike


The purpose of our project was to design fitness equipment with which kinetic energy of the users would be converted into electric energy. Besides this we have also designed a buildings in which it would all take place. This building had to be designed in such a way that no warmth or energy would be wasted. Furthermore the building itself had to provide in its own energy-demand by using sustai-nable systems, like solar panels and geothermal generated energy, and of course by using the energy generated by the sporting equipment. At last we did some research if there would be a market for our concept: sustainable fitness. We did this by doing surveys amongst visitors of gyms.

714. Sustainable fitness

Stan SteeghsRaymond van Dijk

Our prime objective is being able to charge a usb device (iPod, MP3) by creating an alternative energy conversion system. We intend to use a bicycle. Due the motion of the bicycle, kinetic energy is created in the wheels. That energy can be converted to electrical energy which will be used for charging any usb device. - There are 300 million iPods sold to date. Apple has a market share of 78% which means that there are more than 384 million MP3-Players/usb devices worldwide. - 30 kWh is needed to charge an usb device. - The average electricity price is 15¢/kWh. (Dollars) If we multiply the amount of usb devices sold with the costs of the energy needed to charge an usb device. It will result to 384m*(0.15*30)= 1.728 billion dollars. For comparison with that money you can give more than 100 Dol-lar to every citizen in the Netherlands.Murat Mercan

Muzaffer ÖztoprakEnes Gurcuoglu

Gymnasium Apeldoorn

RSG Lingecollege

CO2 is a great environmental problem, because it will pollute the atmosphere. But if there is too much CO2, the earth will warming up. And that isn’t good for the life on the earth. The poles will melt than and the water warms, so the water rises. Then we have to build a higher dune and so on. And very many creatures on the earth are not resistant to the heat and will die. This can already happen when the temperature 1oC raise.Our idea is an invention that purifies CO2 out of the atmosphere. When NaOH exposes to the open air, it will react into natriumcarbonate. We build something like this on an airplane or a car or something. Then, the wind will blow through the filter. The more air comes through the filters, the more CO2 will be returned out of the atmosphere. And that’s exactly our goal.

266. Ecosaver

Ardjan SturmDennis DingemanseNiels-Jan Wisse

Calvijn College

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698. Bioluminescence in informational mark-ings


314. Oil absorber

Nisa PolatRuveyda CoskonMeryem BasogluSafa Kaplan

This report contains a research about the possibilities to apply bioluminescence in various ways for a better environment. A special focus is given to street ligh-ting.

Burak Bayram Kadim Akbulut

Cosmicus College

Ds. Pierson College

S.S.S. Program (Salt Sweet Sea) Our goal is to turn the abundant sea water into drink water as cheaply and efficiently as possible so that even poor countries can use it. It can also be used to get drink water in a shipwreck if it is made more com-pact. We are going to do this with the reversed osmosis method. The reversed os-mosis method purifies water by forcing/pushing it through a membrane at high pressure. If we can make or even find a cheap and effective membrane that’s also compact we will have reached our goal.

313. Salt-sweet-sea program

Rami YounesMaksud DisliDavid KanaarBerat Kaya

Cosmicus College

We have found a solution to all the oil thanks that contaminate all our seas, oceans and the animals who live in the water or near the water. Our project de-pends on a big towel that absorbs all the oil that a broken tanker lost when it had an accident. The towel will be thrown on the oil/water surface to actually absorb the oil. And because oil and water do not mix, it will be easier to only suck up the oil. That is because the towel is sprayed with a special element that absorbs oil and repel the water.

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591. A constructed wetland: sustainable and ef-ficient


Exhaust fumes are a major threat to the environment. Besides cars, there are also the last time a lot of scooters and mopeds, which contribute to this pollution. Netherlands is basically a country of cyclists. We have devised a project which we can ride “electric” bicycles, with 0% CO2 emissions. In short, it means that we will assemble a cordless drill on the bike, which will be powered the rear wheel. This will enable us to ride about 8 km/h with the bycicle, without kicking the pedals.

694. The electric bicycle

Safa YilmazDursun SarikayaRakib Sardar

A constructed wetland is a swamp which can clean water in a way that it is not harmful for the environment anymore. Bacteria and plants live in this swamp and they help to clean the water. In this way a constructed wetland is an ecological solution to clean water.It is also low in use of energy. The cleaned water can be used for different purposes, like toilet water or irrigation water. It also is no pro-blem to discharge it on surface water. It does not cause pollution. We have made our own constructed wetland in a rainwater ton. We have done some research with regard to the decrease of phosphate and ammonium in different circum-stances (different kinds of polluted water and different temperatures). We have also done some research about the decrease of bacteria, after it fled through our wetland. We came to the conclusion that our constructed wetland works.

Ruth van RoemburgEllen van Wesel

Dominicus College/ Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen

Gertrudiscollege

In Rotterdam there is a big problem with the street litter in the center of the city. For this, we investigated and found a solution for this problem. Therefore we used fall wind between the big buildings and gravity to get the street litter in our trashcan.

315. Wind garbage collector

Kubra Akca Norien GulMelanie Lopes AndradaDilara Ozdemir

Cosmicus College

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692. Using potatoes instead of batteries


Our project aims to decrease the use of electricity in houses. We want to achieve this by combining two different ideas. The first idea is to sell electricity on a month based subscription like a phone subscription. Everyone buys the needed KW of electricity that she/he will be using. The idea is that every household will not use more electricity than the amount they pay for. So we can make people aware of the electricity usage in there house. The second ideas is the use the na-tural resources of the country in favor of the household. We will take Netherlands as example; we have a lot of rain. What we want to do is collect all the rainwater and run in thought a dynamo and use the generated electricity. The generated electricity will be used inside the house as a support system for the subscription.

711. Maximum output from rainwater

Kurat AkyuzMusab UluçayMuhammed DerinNaim Ulucay

We want to generate energy from potatoes and in this way use potatoes instead of harmful batteries.

Furkan KocBilal Sahiner

Caland Lyceum

Titus Brandsma Lyceum/ Maaslandcollege Oss

We have find a solution for the probleem of industrial smog. The solution is: we want to cast water into a siphon in the funnel. The substances will solve into the water. Then we will drain the substances into the freezer. The smog will freezed, then we can drain it.

18. Industrial smog

Jordi WoutersWouter de VoogdTon de Heer

Calvijn College

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662. Cigarette fume


This project is about creating electricity using light weight turbines. These tur-bines are driven by the slipstream of cars, which are passing through.

693. Slipstream Turbine

Yunus Emre TosunKursat Tosun

Besides the many beauty ailments, there are the serious consequences of smo-king that may affect our health and most lasting effects. We want this project to demonstrate what it does to the body when you inhale a cigarette. Below we have some facts about the harmful effects of cigarette listed plus some of the biological effects of the substances that you inhale.

Murat KayaTarik Kilic

Pallas Athene College

Fons Vitae Lyceum/Amstel Lyceum

Free energy can be captured from the sun,wind and water. But that isn’t the only way. There is another method to get free energy – this is through the earth itself! Temperatures within the earth can rise up to almost 9000 F (5000° Celcius) in the earths core. At 10 km (6,2 miles) the earth’s heat is around 260°C. It is heat like this that can be used to make a lot of energy on the surface. This type of energy is then called geothermal energy. In this project we have designed a model of a power plant that can convert heat into electricity. This can be done by vaporisa-tion of a fluid at a certain depth.

254. Earth warmth vapor engine

Jorke KooijengaMenno GilhuisJesse Hummen Tijmen Beemster

Cygnus Gymnasium

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Organizers

INESPO is the International Environment & Scientific Project Olympiade. It is first organized in 2009. Students from all over the world in the age of 13 till 18 can participate in INESPO. By organizing INESPO the Cosmicus Foundation wants to point at the worldwide environmental problems and create awareness of these issues.

The Cosmicus Foundation is the initiator of INESPO. It is an intercultural organiza-tion which organizes educational, cultural, social and scientific activities. There are eight student associations, two secondary schools and two primary schools. Besides that the Cosmicus Foundation publishes an opinion magazine four times a year and it is also involved in diversity projects and organizing networking and cultural trips. More info at www.cosmicus.nl.

LVDO promotes from the government sustainability in education. Through net-works like Sustainable PABO, Sustainable Secondary Vocational Education and Sustainable Higher Education supports LvDO a good embedding of sustainabil-ity in education. More info at www.lerenvoorduurzameontwikkeling.nl.

The GLOBE program is a network of 24,000 schools in 111 countries doing scien-tific research together with scientists all over the world. In the Netherlands and in the region Europe-Eurasia, GLOBE is coordinated by SME Advies. SME Advies also coordinates some other relevant sustainability programs such as Energetic Schools and the Dutch part of the international Eco Schools program. All these networks are used to inspire students for the Sustainability Olympiad. More info at www.globe.gov.

Since 2000 IVN has already involved 20.000 students in sustainability with its Schools for Sustainability program by letting them come up with solutions for real sustainability issues for businesses and organizations. Besides that IVN orga-nizes various local and regional events annually. More info at www.ivn.nl or www.scholenvoorduurzaamheid.nl.

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Affiliated Full PartnersAt this moment there are two kind of organizations with whom we have a mutual agreement. The first type is Affiliated Full Partners in different continents. Dutch projects who are the winners of the National INESPO Olympiad are send to their events. These organizations are sending their winning projects to our international contest. They have also the authority to qualify projects from other countries.

I-SWEEEP, the International Sustainable World (Energy, Enginee-ring, and Environment) Project Olympiad is a science fair open to middle and high school students organized by the Cosmos Foun-dation. ISWEEP takes place at Houston USA and works with local, national, and international science fair organizations to bring to-gether the top-ranking participants and qualifying projects from these competitions.

MOSTRATEC, the International Science and Technology Exhibition is organized and hosted by Fundação Escola Técnica Liberato Salza-no Vieira da Cunha in Brazil, in collaboration with public and private institutions. Since 1994, MOSTRATEC has been held in International character, becoming one of the most important educational events in the country. The fair is destined to the exhibition of science and technology related research projects in the different areas of hu-man knowledge, developed by high school or technical/profes-sionalizing education students from Brazil and other countries.

MILSET Europe is a European non-governmental, non-profit and politically independent youth organisation, created from member organisations of MILSET (International Movement for Leisure Ac-tivities in Science & Technology) holding their seat in Europe. These organisations work in the field of education, focusing on the or-ganisation of science-and-technology activities for young people.The science fair aims at promoting scientific projects created by children and young people around the world through an exhibi-tion in a multi-cultural environment, also allowing the participation of institutions which want to assist young people in their projects.

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Authorized Affiliated National CoordinatorsSecond type of agreements we have are with national Olympiads in different countries. Only these organiza-tions are authorised to send winning projects from their country to INESPO. Students or schools from these countries who want to participate at INESPO, have to participate in their national Olympiad first.

Austria Wirtschaftsservice Dansk Naturvidenskabsformidling The Young Scientists of Slovakia

Federazione delle Associazioni Scientifiche

e Tecniche from Italy

Society for the Promotion of Science & Technology from

Nigeria

Mexico Science Expo Korea Science and Engineering Fair

Hong Kong International Science Fair

Indonesian Science Project

Olympiad

Division of Clus-ter and Boarding

Schools from Malaysia

I.C.I.J.A. from Spain

Jonk Fuerscher Lëtzebuerg

London International Youth Science Forum from United Kingdom

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