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Czech Head,
Česká hlava
Česká hlava s.r.o. (The Czech Head, Ltd.)
The project “Czech Head” exists since 2002 and represents several interconnected activities and initiatives which are described in separate sheets. Top event is a Czech Head Award for best individuals of research and technology.
To support research and technology development in the Czech Republic with the aim to make research and science more popular and enhance the prestige of scientists and researchers within the society.
The long-term goal of the Award is to make its prestige comparable to the Nobel Prize, however on the national level. The idea of the project resulted from the fact that there is a constant decline in the interest of work in research and from the fact that the level of scientific and technology knowledge across the society doesn´t increase in desirable pace which is reflected also in socioeconomic growth of the country.
The idea behind the Czech Head project is that the Czech society can become prosperous only if it can create a favourable environment for science, research and knowledge based society..
General public
Awards to established researchers, awards to young researchers
Awards to researchers, science popularization, conferences, private investment into science and research, activities to promote cooperation between research and application, etc.
National, international (international contest for secondary school students Innovating Minds).
In 2008 established affiliated company “Head of the Year” in the Slovak Republic.
The Czech Head Award has become one of the most prestigious Czech awards in the field of Research and Development; activities carried out in the framework of the Czech Head are among the most visible in the field of science popularization.
Successful initiative that makes science and research more visible for general public; supported by major Czech public mass media.
Petra Kinzlova
ICT Prague, Department of Science and Research
Member of CIAAU Research Team in ICT Prague