The 2006 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2006 "Images of Research" competition in the categories "Fascination of Research", "Faces of Research", the winner of the audience prize and the shortlist, a selection of the best photos submitted in 2006. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Category "Faces of Research":

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Category "Additional nominations":

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Kurt Fuchs, Fotograf

This photograph was awarded 2. place in the category "Fascination of Research".


In the future, soccer balls will report to the referee when they are inside the goal. Their electronic interior will ensure that the position of the ball within the soccer field can be determined precisely to within one centimeter. To guarantee that the electronic components reliably report all important data, the smart soccer balls have to be put thoroughly to the test - here at the antenna hall of the Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Systems (IIS) in Erlangen.

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