In the intimate environment of the Small Congress Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, top scientists of the Slovak Academy of Sciences were awarded again this year. The awards of the Slovak Academy of Sciences are the highest award for the creative activity of its scientists. Compliance with strict pandemic measures divided the award ceremony into two days and by individual science departments. The SAS Awards were presented on Monday, June 28 and Tuesday, June 29, by the President of the SAS, Prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc., in the presence of the President of the SAS Assembly, RNDr. Katarína Gmucová, CSc., and the Vice-Presidents of the SAS for individual departments of sciences – Mgr. Martin Venhart, PhD., Prof. RNDr. Karol Marhold, DrSc., and RNDr. Miroslav Tibor Morovics, CSc.
The invitation to the ceremony was accepted by Ľudovít Paulis, State Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, and on Tuesday also by the Vice-Chairman of the Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for Education, Science, Youth and Sport Jozef Habánik.
As Ľudovít Paulis, State Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, said in his ceremonial speech, the awarded scientists are only a sample of top scientists of the SAS who can compete with scientists abroad, and the SAS itself is an institution that has very high-quality scientific potential.
Awards of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for 2020 in the 3rd Department of Social Sciences
The pandemic situation last year and this year showed how extremely important social science fields are for the present. “It was the Third Department of Sciences that showed us the way to survive this difficult time with its research,” emphasized the President of the SAS prof. Pavol Šajgalík, and also emphasized the importance of free research.
Award-winning top publications for the 3rd Department of Sciences
In the Scientific Monograph category, the following awarded:
Jon Steward, Ph.D., Ph.D. habil. phil. et theol., Institute of Philosophy SAS
In the Norwegian Register category, the following prizes were awarded:
Mgr. Ing. Miloš Kosterec, PhD., Institute of Arts of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
As part of the 2020 SAS Awards ceremony, the Slovak Academy of Sciences handed over a letter of thanks to the former presidents of the SAS, academician MUDr. Ladislav Mach, DrSc., and prof. Ing. Štefan Luby, DrSc., on the occasion of their life anniversaries.
Photo gallery from the SAS Awards 2020
Edited by: Andrea Nozdrovická
Photo: Katarína Gáliková