Awards Presented by Other Institutions in the Czech Republic

ČESKÁ HLAVA (Czech Intellect) - A project designed to support the Czech Republic´s scientific and technical intelligentsia.

This project encompasses an assortment of scientific and intellectual efforts, aimed at popularising science and enhancing the social prestige of Czech technicians and research scientists as the main creators of economic prosperity of the country. Awards for an outstanding result achieved in the fields of research and development are presented on the basis of competition in eight categories. Seven of them are under responsibility of a professional jury. The Government of the Czech Republic, upon the suggestion of the Research and Development Council, makes the final decision on winners of the National Award of the Government of the Czech Republic "ČESKÁ HLAVA" (Czech Intellect).


The Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic presents:

• Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for Research

Proposals for recipients of this award may be submitted by directors of Institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), the President of the ASCR and others by 30 September of the calendar year. .


The "Talent of Josef, Marie and Zdenka Hlávka" Foundation presents:

• The Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates of Prague public universities, Brno Technical University and young talented academics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (to age 33)
• The Josef Hlávka Medal to honour doyens and founding figures of Czech science and arts in recognition of their lifelong activities in support of Czech science, arts and scholarship
• The Josef Hlávka Literary Award for the best publications of scientific literature
• Josef Hlavka Extraordinary Award to commemorate an extraordinary scientific or artistic piece accentuating the Czech as well as European cultural and humanistic tradition

Proposals for this Award and Medal recipients are submitted to the Board of Trustees of the Josef Hlávka Foundation by the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic by 31 July of the calendar year. Academy Institutes are to submit their recommendations to the ASCR President until 30 June of the calendar year.


The B. Jan Horáček Foundation to the Czech Paradise presents:

• PRAEMIUM BOHEMIAE prizes

Foundation prizes are presented to individuals (or groups of individuals) who have made a considerable contribution to the development of scientific fields, such as economics, medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics and the protection and preservation of nature. The Board of Trustees of the Foundation nominates a professional commission for every scientific (or artistic) field in which a prize is to be awarded, which is composed of at least three members recommended by supreme scientific or art institutions (e.g., Czech Rectors Conference, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Learned Society of the Czech Republic). These commissions submit lists of candidates to be presented with Premium Bohemiae prizes to the Board of Trustees of the Foundation which makes the final decision on the prize recipient in a calendar year.