The MLNR Awards Gala

The MLNR Awards Gala aims to promote and reward the creative, innovative and inventive spirit of the Romanian people in areas vital to our collective destiny.

The MLNR Awards Gala aims to stimulate and develop knowledge in any field of research, including the social and human sciences, both through fundamental research and advanced research for the development of complex problems, by acquiring new knowledge about phenomena and processes, formulating and validating original hypotheses, conceptual models and theories.

The MLNR Awards Gala aims to promote original research and increase research capacity, with favorable implications for the international competitiveness of Romanian research.

Every year, on June 21, the MLNR awards 7 prizes of 10,000 euros each, during a celebration organized at the Romanian Athenaeum, for the following reference areas:

• Grigore Moisil Award for Exact Sciences;
• Henri Coandă Award for Applied Sciences;
• Carol Davila Prize for Medicine;
• Constantin Brâncuşi Prize for Art and Culture;
• Nicolae Titulescu Prize for Diplomacy and Political Science;
• Eugeniu Carada Prize for Economics;
• Spiru Haret Prize for Social, Environmental, Education.

The prizes are named after personalities representative of the field of reference and who belonged to the most respectable brotherhood in the world – Freemasonry.

The prizes are awarded to all Romanian citizens resident or non-resident in Romania, regardless of sex, religion or age, Masons or laymen, who during the year preceding the award ceremony have carried out a work, a discovery, invention or innovation, have issued a theory, theorem, equation, have developed a technique, method, procedure with macro-social impact in one of the 7 awarded fields or through the exercise of their profession or public dignity have brought important services or benefits to the country.

The MLNR AWARDS GALA is organized in partnership with the Romanian Academy, the Ministry of Culture and the Babeș Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, the University of Bucharest, the Romanian Academy of Sciences, the Carol Davila University of Medicine Bucharest, the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, the West University of Timișoara, the National Academy of Sciences of Romania, the Constantin Brâncuși National University of Arts Bucharest, the George Enescu University of Arts Iași, the Transilvania University of Brașov, the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, the University of Craiova.