French Embassy in Vienna Awards Academic Palms

Lifestyle & TravelMore+ ♦ Published: January 25, 2023; 23:57 ♦ (Vindobona)

The French Ambassador to Austria, Gilles Pécout, presented the Academic Palm to four personalities during a ceremony at the Embassy in the presence of the Austrian Federal Minister for Europe and Constitution, Karoline Edtstadtler.

Teachers and staff of the Lycée français de Vienne (LFV) were awarded academic palms. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons /Julius Jonathan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Academic Palms, or in French Ordre des Palmes académiques (the Order of Academic Palms), is a national award bestowed on outstanding academics and teachers for their contributions to universities, education, and science.

This award, granted by the Minister of Education, honors individuals who have rendered exceptional service to national education and contributed to the spread…