PULSE team for "demonstrating the impact of European pulsar science on modern physics" (Andrew Lyne, Nicolo D'amico, Axel Jessner, Ben Stappers, John Seiradakis); the ESS (="European Social Survey") project, for "radical innovations in cross-national surveys; and the EURO-PID project for cutting-edge research on a group of over 130 rare genetically determined diseases known as primary immunodeficiencies". 2007 Winners: ""H.E.S.S. project": High Energy Stereoscopic System of telescopes for very-high-energy gamma-ray cosmic source detection" (Werner Hofmann, Michael Punch, Paula Chadwick, Thomas Lohse, Philippe Goret, Goetz Heinzelmann, Stefan Wagner, Helene Sol, Reinhard Schlickeiser, Luke O'Connor Drury, Ladislav Rob, Ocker Cornelis de Jager, Christian Stegmann, Andrea Santangelo, Michael Ostrowski, Rudak Bronislaw, Ashot Akhperjanian) "SynNanoMotors The realisation of some of the world's first working synthetic molecular motors and mechanical nanomachines" (David Leigh, project coordinator, François Kajzar, Fabio Biscarini, Francesco Zerbetto, Wybren Jan Buma and Petra Rudolf) "EPICA European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica" (Hubertus Fischer, Jean-Louis Tison, Thomas Stocker, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Massimo Frezzotti, Gérard Jugle, Valter Maggi, Michiel van den Broeke, Elisabeth Isaksson, Margareta Hansson, Erik Wolff) References External links Official site EU CORDIS FP6 site on the Descartes Prize Editorial policy for the promotion of science whatever the media Award page European science and technology awards Awards established in 2000 Orders, decorations, and medals of the European Union Awards disestablished in 2007