The Slovak Academy of Sciences Awards for 2021

From left: prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc., president of SAS; Jozef Chudík, RTVS; Mgr. Tereza Štolcová, PhD., PhDr. Karol Pieta, DrSc. and doc. PhDr. Matej Ruttkay, CSc., IA SAS; Mgr. Michal Kšiňan, PhD., member of the presidium of SAS (Photo: K. Gáliková, SAV).

On 30th of June 2022, a ceremony was held at the SAS Congress Centre in Smolenice, where the Slovak Academy of Sciences awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research, international scientific and technical cooperation and popularisation of science were presented.

The Slovak Academy of Sciences award for popularization of science and social applications of science was awarded by prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc., the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, to: PhDr. Karol Pieta, DrSc., doc. PhDr. Matej Ruttkay, CSc., Mgr. Tereza Štolcová, PhD., Mgr. Zbigniew Robak, PhD., from the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and to Róbert Benkovits, Marína Juríčková and Jozef Chudík from RTVS (Radio and Television of Slovakia) for the series of popular scientific documentary films “Slovak Archaeologists,” which in an accessible way brought to the public significant Slovak and foreign archaeological sites mapped by Slovak experts.

All documentaries about Slovak Archaeologists can be viewed in the RTVS archive:

Bojná hillfort

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/201018

Princely grave from Poprad

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/201677

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/202258

Excavation of Slovak team in Guatemala

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/136059

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/137242

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/139063

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/140372

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/142089