Dr. Marco Dorigo, the project coordinator and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence and swarm robotics research fields, has been awarded, in November 2003, the First EU Marie Curie Award, and in November 2005, the prestigious ซFNRS Prize - Prix Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlartป, worth 75,000 EUR, for his contributions to artificial intelligence and robotics.