Young Forum of the STUVA Conference:
Three Winners Share Exciting Journey in Canada
Credit/Quelle: Popovic/Kube/Escherich
Credit/Quelle: Popovic/Kube/Escherich
Credit/Quelle: Popovic/Kube/Escherich
Credit/Quelle: Popovic/Kube/Escherich
Credit/Quelle: Popovic/Kube/Escherich
Credit/Quelle: Popovic/Kube/Escherich
When the STUVA Conference ‘23 opens its doors in Munich on November 8 this year, there will definitely be excitement once again. Because in the STUVA “Young Forum” competition, up to five young engineers will be given the chance to present their projects or research topics on the big stage and face evaluation by the attending expert audience. The rapidly increasing number of participants shows how popular this competition, now in its seventh year, has become among young professionals. With 17 submissions this year, an all-time record was set, which does not exactly make the pre-selection for the Scientific Program Advisory Board easy. We can therefore look forward to seeing who will make it to the final round this year and win the Young Talent Awwrd. As always, not only fame and honor await the winner, but also an exclusive trip to one of the major tunnel construction projects.
In the last three years, however, travelling was not the easiest thing to do ... At the STUVA Conference 2019, Dr.-Ing. Ivan Popovic of ZPP Ingenieure received the STUVA Young Talent Award for his presentation “New separation method for used bentonite suspensions: Fine particle separation by electroagulation – laboratory tests, prototype, site implementation.” But the anticipation of his planned trip to the Alto Maipo hydropower plant megaproject in Chile lasted only briefly. The outbreak of the Corona pandemic threw a wrench in all travel plans.
Two years passed quickly, and the 2021 STUVA...
