{"id":10978,"date":"2015-03-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/news\/european-best-engineering-competition-2015-in-bratislava\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:02:44","slug":"european-best-engineering-competition-2015-in-bratislava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/event-report\/european-best-engineering-competition-2015-in-bratislava\/","title":{"rendered":"European BEST Engineering Competition 2015 in Bratislava"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dQr4Cw-f0-40669.jpg\" style=\"float:left;margin:0px 10px 10px 0px\" alt=\"\" \/>On March 11th and 12th 2015 at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, the <b>local round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.best-bratislava.sk\/sutaze\/ebec2014\/ebec\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EBEC<\/a><\/b> competition was held for Bachelor and Master degree students who want to prove they can link theoretical knowledge acquired at university with practice. One of the event&#8217;s&nbsp;partners was our company, <b>MicroStep spol. s&nbsp;r. o.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>EBEC, <b>European BEST Engineering Competition<\/b>, is a&nbsp;pan-European engineering competition organized by BEST for students of technical colleges and universities. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.best.eu.org\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BEST<\/a>, <b>Board of European Students of Technology<\/b>, is a&nbsp;constantly growing non-profit and non-political organization that gives students from all over Europe the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and learn about other cultures.<\/p>\n<p>The first category of the EBEC competition titled &#8220;Team Design&#8221; took place at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of SUT. Teams were given the task to construct a&nbsp;device according to the specification and out of assigned material. After several hours they presented their devices in front of an expert panel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pUzAcM-f0-40670.jpg\" style=\"float:right;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;\" alt=\"\" \/>The next day, the category &#8220;Case Study&#8221; took place at the premises of the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of SUT, where contestants addressed theoretical issues. The intention was to move the line of students&#8217; thinking and take them to a&nbsp;little unconventional track of exploration for new theoretical solutions to the given topic.<\/p>\n<p>Each category has one winning team that will go to the <b>regional round of the competition in Prague<\/b> in April. Winners of the Bratislava local round will compete there with winners from Kosice (Slovakia), Hungary and the Czech Republic. Winners from Prague will pass to the <b>EBEC Final<\/b> that will be held in August this year in the second largest Portuguese city of <b>Porto<\/b>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStep supported the local Bratislava round of the EBEC competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10982,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions\/10982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsl.sk\/microstep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}