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Comenius Prize 2016 awarded to Mr. Herman Van Rompuy

The winner of the Comenius Prize 2016 is the former Prime Minister of Belgium and former President of the European Council Mr. Herman van Rompuy. 

The prestigious Comenius Award was established in 2011 by the Foundation Comenius Museum in the Netherlands dedicated to spreading the ideas of the theologian,  educator and political thinker Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670), who was buried in Naarden.

Comenius Prize is awarded annually to a person, project or institution  acting in line with the ideas of Comenius , committed to the importance of education in an increasingly global society and supportive to society and social developments, or a combination thereof.

The independent jury, consisting of experts who are familiar in the fields of Comenius: education and education, religion and theology and politics and society, nominatest he candidate.

The prize itself is a glass made of Bohemian crystal (from Harrachov glass factory) with the inscription of the motto of Comenius: Omne sponte fluant absit violentia rebus; Let everything develop spontaneously and let violence be absent, the logo of Comenius and the name of the winner. This prize is not a cash prize.

Previous winners of the Comenius Prize are Robbert Dijkgraaf (2012), now director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, once home to Albert Einstein; Paul Schnabel (2013), for many years director of the Dutch Social and Cultural Planning Office and social researcher; Louise Fresco (2014), international and leading active in the field of the world food problems  and scientific research and Geert Mak, author of small histories placed in the context of world history and   suggesting thus that we are all citizens of one world.

The winner of the Comenius Prize 2016 is the former Prime Minister of Belgium and former President of the European Council Mr. Herman van Rompuy.  In view of the jury, he is - just like Comenius - able to bridge differences, focused on dialogue, unity and action based on the realization that the major problems in the world are resolvable with respect for values.

When announcing the winner of the Comenius Prize, Mr Van Rompuy recalled how Comenius found shelter in what was tolerant Nederland. Not as an immigrant to stay, but as a political and religious refugees in the hope to return  to his homeland.

Mr Van Rompuy will recieve the Comenius Prize on Saturday afternoon, April 2 in the Grote Kerk in Naarden.  It is possible to attend the Comeniusdag after  registration via the website www.comeniusmuseum.nl

There will be the traditional cultural program to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Jan Amos Comenius in the afternoon of 2 April in the Naarden Great Church. The program will also include young musicians from the V4 countries. The celebration will be attended by the Czech Minister of Culture, Mr. Daniel Herman.
Before the start of the main cultural program, at 12.45, the Ambassadors of the Visegrad countries along with the representatives of the municipality of Gooise Meren and the partner Czech city Uherský Brod will honor the memory of J. A. Comenius by laying the wreaths at the statue before the Great Church (Grote Kerk) in Naarden. 

 

Cena J. A. Komenského

Cena J. A. Komenského