OREANDA-NEWS. August 04, 2010. The Bank of Lithuania is seeking for nominations for the 2010 Vladas Jurgutis Award, to be submitted by 1 September this year, reported the press-centre of Bank of Lithuania.

The award of LTL 50,000 will be granted for significant contributions (monographs, textbooks, scientific publications, dissertations) to the field of  Lithuanian banking, financial, monetary and macroeconomic research over the last five years. The winner will be announced and presented in an award at the ceremony held in November, on the day of birth of Vladas Jurgutis, an academic, professor and the first Governor of the Bank of Lithuania in the pre-war period.

Starting in 2008, the Bank of Lithuania grants the award that was established in 1997 together with the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, an institution which brings together the country’s most distinguished scholars.

“It is a prestigious economic award among scientific researchers, granted by the Bank of Lithuania and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences to encourage scientific research in the field of finance and economic studies,” said Prof. Vaidievutis Geralavicius, head of the award committee and a board member of the Bank of Lithuania.

Nominees for the award may be proposed by natural and legal persons. Nominations must be submitted to the Bank of Lithuania (address: Gedimino pr. 6, LT-01103 Vilnius) and must include a Letter of Support from the nominator (whether natural or legal person); Curriculum Vitae of nominee and description of nominee’s scientific research and a list of relevant publications; nominee’s publications for which he/she is proposed to be awarded, and reviews of the submitted publications.