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The President of the Republic's Cultural Foundation gives educational and science awards
15.06.2010
President of the Republic's Cultural Foundation announces a competition for the Educational Award and the Special Physical Sciences Award for 2010.
The supervisory board of the Cultural Foundation shall choose three educational award winners from the applicants. The awards are 75,000, 55,000 and 45,000 EEK and are financed by Sampo Pank. The special award amount is 60,000 EEK. The award is financed by Skype Eesti.
The President of the Republic’s Educational Award can be presented to people connected with the field of education at all levels of study, who have achieved outstanding results as teachers, faculty members, directors of educational institutions, compilers of textbooks and methodological materials, by initiating and implementing practical innovations in the field of education, or developing educational policy as an education official.
In the context of the President of the Republic’s Special Physical Sciences Award, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, bioinformatics and gene technology are considered physical sciences.
The President of the Republic’s Special Physical Sciences Award may be presented to people: who have excelled as teachers and/or faculty members of physical sciences at any educational stage; whose students have been recognized in international competitions or achieved good results in physical sciences competitions; who have compiled physical sciences textbooks and methodological materials; who in the course of teaching physical sciences have initiated and implemented practical innovations.
The deadline for submitting nominations is the 24 th of September 2010.