Next Tuesday (20 June), the Royal Castle in Warsaw will host a ceremony to present the Copernican Prizes, awards for outstanding scientific achievements of groundbreaking importance and international scope. The winners will be revealed on Monday, 19 June at a press conference.
The awarding of the prize is one of the tasks – within the framework of the National Copernican Programme – of the Copernican Academy, established in September 2021, and is intended as a form of recognition of the achievements of researchers pushing the boundaries of previous knowledge of humanity.
Exceptional award for researchers
The Copernican Prizes are awarded for outstanding scientific achievements of ground-breaking importance and international scope. The award – in the form of an individual cash prize of PLN 500,000 – will be presented for the first time this year. The Academy awards a maximum of two such distinctions per year.
From 2023 onwards, the Copernican Academy will award the Prizes annually, consecutively in one of the categories: astronomy, economics, medicine, philosophy or theology or law. According to the regulations, the laureates become members of the Academy on the date they receive the Prize.
The laureate is selected by the Presidium of the Academy, while the candidates may be proposed by: The President of the Republic of Poland, the Prime Minister, the minister responsible for higher education and science, the Chamber of the Academy, 10 members of the Academy or one of the laureates of the Copernican Prize.
Winners and Award Ceremony
This coming Monday (19 June), a press conference will be held at the Press Centre of the Polish Press Agency at ul. Bracka 6/8 in Warsaw, during which this year’s, and therefore the first ever, winners will be announced.
The awards gala itself will take place on Tuesday 20 June, in the Grand Hall of the Royal Castle at 6 p.m. Admission for invited guests. Broadcast on: