The Cornerstone Award is one of the ITU technology awards by Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK and Tekniska Föreningen i Finland TFiF.
The Cornerstone Award is given to authors of scientifically and commercially meritorious research. VTT’s Serpent code is a new-generation calculation code for modelling neutron and photon transport and interactions. It is one of the most widely used and internationally best known tools for computational modelling of nuclear reactors. The award is given to the research team currently developing the code.