A highlight of the 2016 Eastern Partnership E-infrastructures Conference (EaPEC) was the presentation of the Eastern Partnership region’s first ‘Enlighten Your Research’ (EYR) awards. The EYR programme invites researchers to submit proposals that highlight how access to advanced networks, technologies and computation would significantly improve their research and discovery process. Presenting the awards to the first regional EYR winners, Walter van Dijk of SURFnet explained the evolution of the programme since its start in the Netherlands in 2007. Two awards were presented: to Yuras Hetsevich of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, for a proposal to create a mobile application that uses speech systems as well as audio and visual imagery to inform visitors about the history of cities; and to Naira Kocharyan of ASNET-AM on behalf of Armen Poghosyan of the Bioinformatics Group of the International Scientific-Educational Center of NAS RA, Armenia, who won with the proposal to study molecular dynamics of surfactants and phospholipid nanosystems. In this video they also explain their proposals.
