European Astronomical Society (EAS) awarded the 2013 MERAC prize for the Best Early Career Researcher Observational Astrophysics to Elisabetta Caffau for the discovery of a very primitive low-mass star in our Galaxy. This 20 000 € prize is financed by the MERAC foundation (Mobilising European Research in Astrophysiocs and Cosmology). For more information, read the article on the Observatoire de Paris website.