The prize, which aims to maintain and further develop the cultural connections between Denmark and Italy, is given to a researcher connected to the Danish Institute in Rome. In his function as project director of the Danish-Italian excavation of Caesar’s Forum funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, where professor and centre leader Rubina Raja is co-director, Jan Kindberg Jacobsen is of an immense importance for the collaboration between the Danish Institute in Rome and the Italian archaeologists and cultural institutions.

Read press release (in Danish) here.

Read more about the excavation of Caesar’s Forum here.