After a five-month selection procedure, 30 participants were selected for the 2013 Millennium Youth Camp. In its third year, the event attracted more than 1600 applicants from more than100 countries.

Kemira has contributed to the creation of the event all the way from the idea stage. MYCamp will take place in the Helsinki area on June 9 to 15. During the week, the participants will visit the University of Helsinki and Aalto University and participate in the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize gala. They will also get a chance to meet the Technology Prize finalists.

The water team in the 2013 MYCamp has an exciting geographical makeup: two participants come from Africa, one from Australia, one from Canada, one from Thailand and one—the only boy this time—from Romania. In the last stage of the selection procedure, the applicants prepared project plans about micropollutants in water systems.

On June 12, the team will visit Kemira’s R&D Center in Espoo, where they will be instructed by professors Tuula Tuhkanen from the Tampere University of Technology and Olli Varis from Aalto University, supported by Dr. Tatjana Karpova and Ilkka Pollari, Director, IP Management, who is the chairman for the water team, among other Kemira’s scientists.