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Princess of Asturias Awards 06/09/2017
The jury meeting for the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
39 nominations from 17 different countries are in the running for this award, the seventh of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, and which are now in their XXXVII edition.
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The meetings of the jury responsible for awarding the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the seventh of eight international awards that will be bestowed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, will be held on June 13th and 14th. The awards will be bestowed this year for the XXXVII edition in their history. Thirty-nine candidatures, from seventeen different countries, have been nominated for this award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista Hotel, Oviedo.
As stated in the Statutes of the Foundation, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research shall be conferred on those “whose research, discoveries and/or inventions constitute an outstanding contribution at an international level to progress and social well-being via the promotion and advancement of mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, medical sciences, earth and space sciences or technological sciences, including those disciplines corresponding to each of these fields and their related technologies.”
The Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the accolade, a cash prize of €50,000, a diploma and an insignia.
The members of the Jury will hold a first meeting with the media at 11:00am. on Tuesday 13th in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. The jury will then elect a president from amongst them. The jury secretary will be appointed by the Foundation.
Their decision will be made public at 12 noon (GMT+2:00) on Wednesday 14th in the “Salón Covadonga” of the hotel (on the ground floor), and jury members will then be available for interviews.
The reading of the jury’s decision will be transmitted via Hispasat satellite (America and Europe). In addition, there will be a live Internet broadcast at the Foundation's website: www.fpa.es
Jury composition
The Jury, which is to meet at the Reconquista Hotel, will be made up of the following members:
- Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
- Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin
- Miguel Delibes de Castro
- Pedro Miguel Echenique Landiríbar
- Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz
- Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal
- Álvaro Giménez Cañete
- Bernardo Hernández González
- Clara Menéndez Santos
- Sir Salvador Moncada
- Ginés Morata Pérez
- Enrique Moreno González
- Teresa Rodrigo Anoro
- Inés Rodríguez Hidalgo
- Manuel Toharia Cortés
- Santiago García Granda (acting secretary)
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