Competitions

Dr. h.c. Ing.Štefan Rosina AWARD

About Competition

POLYMER INSTITUTE OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, as one of the organizers of the international conference “Polymer Materials in the Automotive Industry PMA & Slovak Rubber conference SRC 2025 in the interest of awarding extraordinary results and outstanding works of research, development, and innovation in areas belonging to the conference topics, announces the competition

„Dr. h. c. Ing. Štefan Rosina Award“

for individuals or collectives in category:
Innovations with application potential

Competition Criteria

• Innovativeness and technical level of the subject of the competition proposal
• Potential economic, business, environmental, and social benefits and protection of intellectual property rights
• Multiple proposals can be submitted to the competition, while only one application can be submitted for one subject
• The application does not have a prescribed format but must contain all the attributes described in the first two points of the competition criteria. The length of the application should be between 3 and 5 pages of A4 format
• The period for sending applications is from October 1, 2024 till January 31, 2025
• The evaluation of applied innovations will take place during the period from February till April 2025

Only individuals, research groups, or companies operating in Slovakia can participate in the competition

Presentation of Awards

From the submitted applications, the committee will select one innovation, which will be awarded by a
diploma and a financial reward of 1000 Eur.

The awards will be presented during the conference.