SAS COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE FOR ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC COOPERATIONYAN FOR PAUTRAT, THE FRENCH ATTACHÉ
On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, the SAS commemorative plaque was handed over on the premises of the Slovak Academy of Sciences to Yan Pautrat, attaché of the Embassy of the French Republic for academic and scientific cooperation by Dr. Martin Venhart, the vice-president of the SAS for the Scientific Section 1. Yan Pautrat exceptionally contributed to the development of scientific relations between the SAS and its French partners.
As stated by Dr. Martin Venhart, the award is an expression of gratitude to Yan Pautrat for his tireless and extraordinarily active work in favour of developing Slovak-French scientific cooperation, especially the partnership between SAS and French scientific institutions. "This cooperation is not only declared on paper but has concrete results," he emphasized.
Yan Pautrat organized a visit by the previous director of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Jérôme Heurtaux, which resulted in the signing of a cooperation agreement between SAS and CEFRES. "He became a member of the SAS-CEFRES Joint Expert Commission, where he helped intensify French-Slovak scientific cooperation with his ideas and support," said a member of the Presidium of SAS, Dr. Michal Kšinan. He also highlighted a significant share of Y. Pautrata, an important mathematician, on the creation of the Joint Mobility Grant of the French Government and the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the field of social sciences and humanities for young scientists, and contributed to the implementation of the SAS-CEFRES mobility grant for PhD students. Y. Pautrat contributed significantly to the creation of the flagship of the French-Slovak scientific cooperation program TANDEM CNRS-SAS. "Thanks to Yan Pautrat's initiative, SAS employees are given the opportunity to implement or extend their ongoing scientific stay in France beyond the originally allocated financial resources," M. Kšiňan mentions this side of the merits of the award-winning scientist and also recalls his participation in organizing lectures and conferences at the bilateral and multilateral basis. In this context, M. Kšiňan strongly stressed the co-organization of the conference called Thirty Years of Independence for the Czech and Slovak Republics (1993-2023) held on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the SAS and the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Slovak Republic or the lecture of Professor Antoine Marès called Central Europe Through French Eyes.
"It is a great honour for me to receive this award - the SAS commemorative plaque," said Yan Pautrat in his acceptance speech. He emphasized that it is a pleasure for him to cooperate with people in Slovakia, especially with the scientists of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and he speaks of a very close and friendly cooperation. He particularly appreciates the willingness, passion for science, enthusiasm and creativity that he sees in Slovakia, and highlights the effort of young people to know more and discover new things and phenomena.
Edited by Andrea Nozdrovická