Out of many excellent proposals, 14 high school teams were selected as winning entrants in the 2012 European CanSat competition. The following winning teams will be launching their CanSats at Andøya Rocket Range in Norway, in April 2012:

• Yes, we Cansat! - Höhere Technische Lehranstalt für Informationstechnologie, Ybbs an der Donau (Technical High School for Information Technology), Austria
• DJ AUXALTation - Sint-Pieterscollege Jette, Brussels, Belgium
• Jecnaci - Secondary Technical School SPSE Jecna, Prague, Czech Republic
• Stella Nova Viking Red One (SNoViR I) - Haderslev Katedralskole, Haderslev, Denmark
• SatElite - Lycée Alfred Kastler, Talence, France
• Icaromenippus 3D - 3rd General Lyceum of Mytilini, Strati Myrivili, Greece
• Rocket - Crescent College Comprehensive School, Ireland
• ENFoRCE (ENrico Fermi Research Cansat Experiment) from Istituto Tecnico Industriale (I.T.I.S.) Enrico Fermi, Roma, Italy
• The Flying Dutchcan - American International School of Rotterdam (AISR), The Netherlands
• Navican - Heimdal Videregående Skole, Trondheim, Norway
• Azorean Shearwater -  EBS Santa Maria - Vila do Porto (Azores), Portugal
• Bolyai - Székely Mikó Theoretical High School; Saint George (Sfantu Gheorghe), Romania
• Alpha - Bearsden Academy, Scotland
• DeLaCosa - Colegio Retamar, Pozuelo, Spain

In addition, a back-up team was selected:

• Aspire - St. Paul's School, London, United Kingdom

The final selection was based upon a number of key criteria, including the scientific and technical merit of the proposed mission, the programme of outreach associated with the team’s experiment, the distribution of work between the team members and the time that could be allocated to the project at school.