The Estonian Science Photo Competition (Estonian: teadusfoto võistlus) is a photographycompetition that aims to popularize science and make more science related images freely available.
The competition was first held in 2006 (image collection process started already in 2005[1]). In 2006 and 2007 it was organized by an Estonian science journalist Tiit Kändler.[2][3]
It was relaunched in 2011 and organized by wikipedian Ivo Kruusamägi.[4] It was now held in Wikipedia and the submitted images were given under free licence.[5] Competition also took place in 2012[6] and 2013.[7]
In 2015 this event was held as a part of European Science Photo Competition.[8] This contest involved 40 countries, over 2,200 people, and nearly 10,000 images.[8][9] This was again organized by Ivo Kruusamägi and it won the 2nd prize of the Estonian Science Communication Award in the category of science and technology communication via audio-visual and electronic media.[10]
In 2017 it was held as a worldwide Wiki Science Competition and it once again collected around 10,000 images.
Maxim Bilovitskiy from Estonia also won the Non-photographic media category in the European Science Photo Competition 2015[9] and in Wiki Science Competition 2017.[11]