Odysseus is a pan-European educational competition aimed at students 14 to 18 years old from schools around the European Union, designed to challenge talented young people on science.  Students wishing to participate must form a team of 2 to 5 members, with a teacher as a coach and prepare and submit a project on the themes of Solar System, Spaceship global cooperation and Co-evolution of life, using their knowledge, creativity and critical thinking.  All entries have to be submitted by the 15th of February 2013 and they will be assessed and scored on scientific knowledge, practical implementation and creativity, by highly experienced evaluators, according to predefined evaluation criteria.  Three entries per country — one for each theme category — will be chosen to move forward to the final round of evaluation, where national winners will be evaluated comparatively and the final four winning teams will be selected and win a once-in-a-lifetime educational experience in the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany and in the European Space Research and Technology Center of European Space Agency and the Space Expo the in the Netherlands, where they will receive their prizes (for more information visit http://www.odysseus-contest.eu ).