CELSA Service to Society Awards

CELSA wants to honour those colleagues of our universities who have performed way beyond their duties in order to service their community and mankind in general. In this way, CELSA stresses the importance of service to the community as a main task of universities.

To qualify for the award:

• one has to be nominated by professors of at least two CELSA member universities;
• the nominee has to be a member of the academic staff of one of the CELSA member universities;
• nominees are in principle individual persons; exceptionally the award may be given to a limited number of persons. Institutes and organisations do not qualify.

Following criteria are taken into account in this selection process:

• the nominee has to have carried out excellent research and/or excellent academic teaching;
• the nominee has performed this research and/or this teaching paying a more than average attention to the need to service the community. Doing research or teaching which by itself (due to the subject matter e.g. medical research) has a positive social impact is not sufficient. To qualify, the nominee has to have gone beyond the professional exercise of his/her duties; a significant extra social dimension of service to the community has to be demonstrated

Award Winners

2021

• Prof. Dr. Kristof De Witte - KU Leuven
• Prof. Dr. Ruth Tachezy - Charles University in Prague

2020

• Prof. Dr. László Rosivall - Semmelweis University

2019

• Prof. Rok Zupančič - University of Ljubljana