Medal

The Vietsch Foundation awards a Medal of Honour on an annual basis.

Who will be eligible to be awarded the next Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour?

The Medal of the Vietsch Foundation is awarded annually to honour people whose initiatives led to a lasting organisational set-up or a service that is of great value to the research and education community.

Eligible are demonstrable, sustainable achievements in the set-up of a new organisation or service that help accellerating innovation in support of science research and higher education. The Medal can be awarded to the innovators as well as to those who have built on that innovation and made it sustainable. In case of proven collaboration, the Medal can be assigned also to different individuals involved in the process.

Nominating people who you consider are worthy recpients of the medal:

Send an e-mail explaining the reasons that you find the proposed candidate worthy of such an award to: nominations@vietsch-foundation.org

Medal Award 2023
Medal Award 2023The Vietsch Foundation awards the 2023 Medal of Honour to Arjan Xhelaj. The recipient of the 2022 medal of honour of the Vietsch Foundation is Arjan XRead More
Medal Award 2022
Medal Award 2022The Vietsch Foundation awards the 2022 Medal of Honour to Natalia Manola. The recipient of the 2022 medal of honour of the Vietsch Foundation is NatalRead More
Medal Award 2021
Medal Award 2021The Vietsch Foundation awards the 2021 Medal of Honour to Laurel Haak. Laurel L. Haak, Founding Executive Director of ORCID, is the recipient of the 2Read More
Medal Award 2020
Medal Award 2020The Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour is awarded annually to individuals or teams that have developed new ideas or demonstrated sustained organisatioRead More
Medal award 2019
Medal award 2019The 2019 Medal of Honour was awarded to Claudio Allocchio, senior technical officer for advanced applications and security at GARR, for the demonstratRead More
Medal award 2018
Medal award 2018The Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour is awarded annually to individuals or teams that have developed new ideas or demonstrated sustained organisatioRead More
Medal award 2017
Medal award 2017John Boland, outgoing Chief Executive of HEAnet, Ireland’s National Education and Research Network has been awarded the Vietsch Foundation’s medalRead More
Medal award 2016
Medal award 2016Jan Gruntorád, Director of CESNET, the association operating the Czech Republic’s national e-infrastructure of the same name, was awarded the medalRead More
Medal award 2015
Medal award 2015The first Vietsch Foundation medals of honour have been awarded to Andrew Cormack, Chief Regulatory Adviser at Jisc and Roland Hedberg, senior researRead More