The new year starts with great news for the talented pupils, who are interested in designing educational software, as well as for the teachers involved in creating innovative learning solutions: the second edition of the SIVECO Cup - competition meant to designate the best educational software solutions - was launched!

The contest is organized by SIVECO România, being supervized by the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, and with the help of PC Magazine media partner, aiming at maximizing the creative potential of young people from the undergraduate study level.

"This year, we expect a lot of high quality software. The experience gathered during last year edition and the success experienced by the "Cantemir Voda National College" from Bucharest at the ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN exhibition are real incentives for this year competitors. On the other hand, we can also see an improvement in terms of creation environment: every high school has a fully equiped and performant IT laboratory, where pupils learn not only informatics, but also mathematics, phisycs, biology and chemistry assisted by AeL. This eLearning platform developed by SIVECO Romania integrates interactiv lessons - models for the teachers and pupils interested in developing similar aplications", states Prof. Radu JUGUREANU, E-content Responsible at SIVECO Romania.

The most significant change that has occured in the SIVECO Cup 2004 rules is that the competition is now divided into 6 sections: Mathematics and/or Computer Science, Phisycs/Chemistry/Biology, Literature, History and/or Geography, Technology, Inter-disciplinary), in order to offer equal chances of going into the final to applications from various fields of study.