Eureka Prize 2024

The Institute of Astrophysics is excited to announce that  2024 Eureka Prize has been awarded to Dr. Maria Eleftheriou of the Prototypical Highschool of Heraklion.

The prize recognizes educational activities that are inspired by the most attractive and at the same time the most dynamic part of fundamental physics today: Astronomy. The purpose of the prize is to exert a small positive effect on a long-term trend of degradation in the quality of scientific education in Greece, which often focuses on a sterile examination-based learning system, with the background and final judge of their efforts the national exams.

Among the excellent candidates for  2023 the committee selected Dr. Eleftheriou for her original project entitled "The distant light of stars through the life of Annie Jump Cannon" which was implemented during the 2023-24 academic year.

The prize is accompanied by a cash prize of € 3,000 of which € 2,000 will be given to the award-winning teacher and € 1,000 at his / her school in the form of laboratory or other equipment intended for the Astronomical Laboratory of the school which can be ordered from «Πλανητάριο Θεσσαλονίκης».

More information, in Greek, are available from the web page of the prize:  eurekaprize.gr