The way EUYSRA projects differ from a regular assigned lab to be performed for a course is that the members develop and dictate the terms of their own experiments by pursuing team generated ideas. Through the brainstorming and development of experimental ideas as members of teams (usually formed within a department), templates for small scale scientific research experiments become formed, which are then presented to the research committee who evaluate whether or not to proceed with the research having considered the cost and time to be spent on each project. If acknowledged by the research committee, a team will be allocated to one of the many laboratories available to the society. Whilst under the supervision of a lab supervisor, the teams will learn about research conduct, presentation and discussion of experimental results (which later become published on the society web page).
 

Members can join one or several departments as listed below:

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Engineering

• IT

• Medicine

• Physics/Mathematics

• Psychology

 

These departments serve as platforms for members to brainstorm and develop their experiments in familiar academic environments, whilst being guided and organized by the department head. Here they may find that an experiment is not limited to a certain academic field and may require assistance from another department (i.e. a joint engineering and medical venture) which allows for cross departmental cooperation.

 

If there is sufficient amounts of interest in creating a new department, then we would be happy to initiate such a department.

The society, whilst primarily acting as a catalyst for scientific innovation and hands on experimentation, is at the same time a highly academic society which aims to broaden the scientific knowledge of its members through presentations of fellow members or guest speakers whilst also being enticing with lively debates.