The Leonardo da Vinci Medal is the highest distinction SEFI can bestow. The Medal is awarded by the Administrative Council to living persons who have made an outstanding contribution of international significance to engineering education.

   Since its institution in 1983, the Medal has been awarded to:

• Mr. Jacques Delors (France)
• Prof. Heinz Zemanek (Austria)
• Sir Monty Finniston (United Kingdom)
• Prof. John P. Klus (USA)
• Prof. Antonio  Ruberti † (Italy)
• Prof. James C. I.  Dooge (Ireland)
• Prof Hubert Curien (France)
• Sir Robert Telford (United Kingdom)
• Mr Jean Gandois (France)
• Prof. Fritz Paschke (Austria)
• Prof. Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz (United Kindom, Poland)
• Prof. Teuvo Kalevi Kohonen (Finland)
• Prof. Niklaus Wirth (Switzerland)
• Senator Pierre Laffitte (France)
• Prof. Niels I. Meyer (Denmark)
• Mr. Santiago Calatrava (Spain, Switzerland)
• Prof. Joaquim A. Ribeiro Sarmento (Portugal)
• Prof. Giuliano Augusti (Italy)
• Prof. Gulsun Saglamer (Turkey)
• Prof. Ingemar Ingemarsson (Sweden)
• Mr Paul Soros (Hungary)
• Prof. Ole Vinther (Denmark)
• Prof. Jean Michel (France)
• and in 2009, in Rotterdam, H.R.H. Prince Friso van Oranje-Nassau (The Netherlands)

   H.R.H. Prince Friso (on the left) receiving the Medal from President Steinbach