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Dear Rotarian Member,
On behalf of our President Didier Majau and the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to the 49th Leonardo da Vinci Award, which will be held in Tours, France on May 24th, 25th and 26th, 2024.
Registration is now open and we encourage all members to participate in this exceptional event.
Regarding hotels, we have decided to leave all participants free to choose. When making your reservation, please keep in mind that most ceremonies will take place in Tours except for the gala dinner in the Amboise castle. We will provide travel between Tours and Amboise for this part of the event.
Hilton Garden Hill :
https://www.hilton.com/fr/hotels/tufgigi-hilton-garden-inn-tours-centre
Hampton by Hilton :
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/tufhxhx-hampton-tours-centre
Les Trésorières :
https://www.les-tresorieres.com
Novotel :
https://all.accor.com/hotel/A312/index.fr.shtml
Oceania L'Univers :
https://www.oceaniahotels.com/oceania-l-univers-tours
Book yout hotel as soon as possible, as a major wine event will be taking place at the same time in Tours.
At the bottom of this page, you will find the link to the award registration page.
We are confident that you will enjoy this ceremony, both from a scientific and a Rotary perspective.
We look forward to meeting you in Tours !
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The idea for this prestigious award (Leonardo da Vinci Award), jointly emerged in 1973 in the minds of the Rotary Clubs of Florence and Tours. Leonardo da Vinci, painter, inventor, engineer, scientist and humanist, was born in Vinci in 1452, near Florence, and spent the last three years of his life at the Château du Clos Lucé in Amboise, near Tours, where he died in 1519.
The award was officially launched in 1975, with the immediate collaboration of the Rotary Clubs of Athens and Vienna. The clubs of Madrid (1981), Brussels (1983), London (1984), Würzburg (1984), Amsterdam (1989), Dublin (2006), and Copenhagen (2017) later joined. The prize, approximately €12,000, is awarded annually and successively in the eleven cities of these European Rotary Clubs.
The objectives of the Award are: to reward, promote, and support young researchers, creators, and professionals who have distinguished themselves in fields favored by Leonardo da Vinci: sciences, technology, arts, and letters.
Friday, May 24, 2024
6:00 pm : Reception of participants at the club office, Novotel hotel
7:30 pm : Departure for the home hospitality
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Tours Town Hall
10:30 am : Welcome coffee and croissants
Award ceremony presided by Monseigneur The Count of Paris
1:00 pm : Lunch cocktail
2:30 pm : Visit of the city
3:00 pm : Presidents' meeting
5:15 pm : Departure by bus for the royal Amboise Castle
Visit to the castle and the tomb of Leonardo da Vinci
7:20 pm : Gala dinner
11:00 pm : Return by bus to Tours
Sunday, May 26, 2024
9:00 a.m. Departure for Château de Moncontour, Val de Loire wine estate.
10:00 a.m. Visit to the wine museum, followed by a tasting.
11:30 a.m. Speech and handover at RC Athens followed by brunch.
The first prize was awarded on April 13, 1975, in Florence to the American painter Ben Long, presented by Pierre Annigoni.
The Rotary Club of Tours organized the 2nd, 6th, 11th, 19th, 28th, 38th, and 49th prizes on May 25, 2024.
1976: Jean Guillaume, Art Historian, presented by Professor Stegmann, received the prize, which was presented to him by the Count of Paris. The ceremony took place at the Chateau d'Amboise.
1980: Professor Philippe Maupas presents the laureate Claude Nodion, virologist, and the prize was presented to him by Michel Debré, former Prime Minister, at the Town Hall of Tours.
1985: Patrick Blettery, architect, is rewarded for his visionary project of an artificially installed city at sea.
1993: Frédéric Patat, biophysicist, presented by Professor Léandre Pourcelot, receives the prize from the hands of René Monory, President of the Senate.
2002: The prize is awarded to Frédéric Brochet, chemist and oenologist, and presented to him by Hervé Novelli, Member of the European Parliament, at the Vinci Convention Center.
2012: The prize rewards Nicolas Monmarché, doctor and computer engineer, and is presented to him by Yves Chauvin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005, at the Grand Theatre of Tours.
The annual and successive organization of the Leonardo da Vinci Prize by the eleven Rotary Clubs of major European cities Tours, Florence, Athens, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels, London, Würzburg, Amsterdam, Dublin, and Copenhagen, cities with indisputable cultural prestige, is part of a quality action that honors all the actors.
The organization of the 38th prize in Tours in 2012 was exemplary, an international event due to the diversity of participants' origins and their belonging to the Rotary Clubs of these European cities, and perfectly in line with one of the Rotary Club of Tours' objectives, which is to promote, on this occasion, the Tourangelle community to which it belongs, through the choice of the laureate and the quality of the organization.
Yves Chauvin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005, thus presented the prize to Nicolas Monmarché. Since his first steps in computer research, during his computer engineering studies, the recipient has been interested in ants. Among the biological wealth of these insect societies, many natural behaviors have been studied, modeled, and transposed to solve problems very far from the real ants' concerns, including classical computer science problems.
The field of application of ant simulation principles has been extended to many areas: information search on the web, designing websites accessible to people with disabilities, information dissemination in networks, robotics...
Nicolas Monmarché, a researcher in artificial intelligence at the University of Tours, has developed a new approach to modeling collective intelligence in animals. By studying the behavior of different species, Monmarché has identified a set of simple rules that govern how groups of animals make decisions together. Using mathematical models, he has shown how these rules can be applied to create algorithms for use in robotics, generative art, and sound design.
One key application of Monmarché's work is in the field of assistive technologies for people with disabilities. By integrating these mechanisms of collective intelligence, he has developed new tools and devices that can better serve the needs of those with physical or cognitive impairments. His work is both original and creative, reflecting the essential qualities of a Leonardo da Vinci Award winner.
The connection between zoological observation and mathematical modeling, and the application of this approach to fields like robotics and generative art, is a hallmark of the Leonardo da Vinci approach. Monmarché's research has important implications for health and disability, which are key areas of focus for the Rotary Club and its mission of service to others.