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Prize awards

  

Giving prizes to Czech and Slovak children

Medals were presented to 76 prize-winning children from Czech schools at the ceremonial opening of the exhibition in the garden of the Lidice Gallery on 1 June 2017. A medal went also to Xénia Volčková, a girl from Prešov, Slovakia, who took part in the competition as an individual and to three medalists from Logoyskaya detskaya shkola isskustv in Belarus.

The same day saw crystal palettes given to the winners of the highest awards – the Prize of the ICEFA 2017 Panel of Judges for Czech entrants was presented to three medalists and a director Martina Funtánová and an art teacher Eva Bartošová from the Art School Nové Město pod Smrkem. The Prize of the ICEFA 2017 Panel of Judges for foreign entrants went to two medalists and two art teachers Olga Tishina and Vsevolod Romankov from GBOU School No.1955 in Moscow, Russia.

The opening witnessed other certificates and prizes for child winners from Czech organizations go to representatives of their respective schools (if present at the opening ceremony), still other ones were sent to Czech schools by post on 19 June 2017. The same day saw letters of thanks sent out to the Czech schools that have not been awarded. We entreat all the schools that have received an award to ensure prompt presentation of the certificates to the winners and then send a photo of the presentation event to the curator.

On 14 June 2017, the prizes for Slovak children were handed over at the Czech Embassy in Bratislava, other certificates and letters were sent by post.

Presentation of prizes to foreign entrants

The prizes for foreign entrants as well as the letters of thanks for the non-awarded schools will be handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in Prague to be distributed to the representative offices in the respective countries – to the nearby ones in regular deliveries by car (August, September 2017), to the remote ones by air, as per the schedule of diplomatic cargoes (September - December 2017).

The way the prizes are subsequently presented to the winners in the respective countries depends on the established practice and circumstances of individual embassies (or as the case may be, Czech Centers). In most cases, the award-winning children are invited to a ceremony at the embassy, with some refreshments and a cultural program, to receive their prizes from the ambassador of the Czech Republic in person. In other cases, the ambassador or a representative of the embassy of the Czech Republic abroad visits the prize-winning schools. If the location of a school is too far from the capital, the embassy sends the prize by post.

If you would like to know when a prize-giving ceremony will take place, you may refer to the embassy of the Czech Republic in your country by email (in September 2017 at the earliest).