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International Balzan Prize for the Promotion of Research
Since 1961, the International Balzan Prize Foundation rewards outstanding scientists in the humanities and natural sciences as well as personalities from the field of arts and culture with a total of 3 million Swiss Francs. Based on an agreement for the joint promotion of scientific research and the dissemination of its results, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences organise, every second year, the „Interdisciplinary Forum of Balzan Prize Winners“.
Interdisciplinary Forum of Balzan Prizewinners
The «Balzan Prizewinners Interdisciplinary Forum» precedes the award ceremony and is comprised of presentations by that year's Balzan Prizewinners. This is followed by a discussion involving the audience. In addition to the contributions, panel discussions at previous forums focus on the research conditions that facilitate ground-breaking discoveries, on the importance of «excellence» in research and teaching and on the implications of the prizewinners’ achievements for science at large.
Florim Ceka
Reference person Balzan Prize
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
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