International Award

Leonardo da Vinci

Rotary Clubs

Florence/Italy London/England
Amsterdam/Netherlands Madrid/Spain
Athens/Greece Tours/France
Brussels/Belgium Vienna-Ring/Austria
Dublin/Ireland Wuerzburg/Germany

Introduction:

In 1975 the International Prize Leonardo da Vinci was founded on the initiative of Florence Rotary Club and with the collaboration and support of Tours, Athens and Wien-Ring Rotary Clubs. In the following years other European Clubs joined the initiative and more precisely:

1981 Madrid Rotary Club/Spain
1983 Brussels, Rotary Club/Belgium
1984 London Rotary Club/England
1984 Wuerzburg Rotary Club/Germany
1989 Amsterdam Rotary Club/Netherlands
2006 Dublin Rotary Club/Ireland

As we shall see in the rules, with this initiative we intend to award a prize, to young researchers who distinguished themselves in any field of activity. The title of the Price "Leonardo da Vinci" -, whose genius covered every branch of human knowledge confirms, the promoting Clubs, precise intention to consider this prize open to any discipline of art, sciences and letters.


Rules
Art. 1 The institution aims at drawing the attention of the public
opinion to young men of great talent who distinguished themselves in any field of human activity.


Organising Club and Prize-winners

1975 - FLORENCE Ben Long, Painting
1976 - TOURS Jean Guillaume, History of Art
1977 - ATHENS Stavros Valasakis & Constantinos Palaiologos, Sculpture
1978 - WIEN-RING Otto Prohaska, Mechanics of Biology
1979 - FLORENCE Alberto Bologni, Music (Violonist)
1980 - TOURS Claude Nodion, Microbiology
1981 - MADRID Ferdinando Lopez Vera, Geology
1982 - ATHENS Dimitris Sgouros, Music (Pianist)
1983 - WIEN-RING Ingeborg Hochmair-Desoyer, Acoustics
1984 - FLORENCE Giovanni Bonvicini, Nuclear Physics
1985 - TOURS Patrick Blettery, Architecture
1986 - BRUSSELS Elskens - Misra, Physics
1987 - LONDON Evelyn Glennie, Music (Percussion)
1988 - WUERZBURG Dietrich Lorke, Anatomy
1989 - MADRID Julian Agust Sanchez, Neurochemistry
1990 - AMSTERDAM Joost van den Toorn, Sculpture
1991 - ATHENS Leonidas Kavakos, Music (Violonist)
1992 - WIEN-RING Helmut Deubner, Architecture
1993 - TOURS Frederic Patat, Engineering Mechanics
1994 - FLORENCE Fabrizio Rossi Prodi, Architecture
199S - BRUSSELS John Schmidt, Music
1996 - LONDON Joanna Quinn, Graphist (Animation)
1997 - WUERZBURG Klaus Ospald, Music (Quartet Conductor)
1998 - MADRID Eig Omada & Inventive Group (Creator of Drawings)
1999 - AMSTERDAM Benoit Hermans, Painter
2000 - ATHENS Nikolaos Frantzolas, Painter
2001 - WIEN-RING Renate Motschnig, Mathematic (Informatics Research)
2002 - TOURS Frédéric Brochet Oenology
2003 - FLORENCE Roberto Vittori, Astronaut
2004 - BRUSSELS Françoise Rosier Art Restauratorer
2005 - LONDON Sidsel Dorph-Jensen Silversmith
2006 - WÜRZBURG Rebecca Basile Natural Science (Zoology)
2007 - MADRID Emilio Benito Garcia Hospital Nursing
2008 - AMSTERDAM Ties Rijcken Engineering
2009 - Athen Dionysios Grammenos Music(Clarinet)
2010 - Wien-Ring Julius Brennecke, PhD (Biology (Molecular Biotechnology)
2011- Dublin David O'Reilly (New Media)

Next assembly in Tours from 1th.of Junetill 3rd. of June 2012

Invitation RC Tours


History-Premio-Leonardo.doc by Mrs. Massini, Secretary General of Premio Leonardo