Press releases

ECODES has awarded its net zero emissions eco-label to the 2022 Princess of Asturias Awards, the tenth year in which they will boast this certificate.

Awards Week includes several environmental awareness-raising events featuring Laureates Ellen MacArthur and Shigeru Ban.

The EDP Foundation will provide two electric, four plug-in hybrid and two hybrid vehicles for staff to move around during Awards Week.

By acclamation of the institution’s Board of Trustees, she will take over from Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz as of December.

Maria Pagés, joint 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, will close the event with the flamenco performance entitled "Paraíso de los negros".

The programme of activities, sponsored by the Foundation and Philea, will take place on 19th and 20th October in Oviedo and Avilés.

Under the title “Busy with Words”, the meeting will take place starting at 7:30pm on Monday 24th October, in the Laboral Theatre, Gijón.

The Palacio Valdés Theatre in Avilés will host “Unpublished Mayorga”, an event in which Mayorga will read an unpublished text, with explanations about writing and dramatic representation.

Carmen Linares and María Pagés, joint 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureates for the Arts, together in a flamenco performance twenty-five years after last working together.

Under the title “Carmen and María. Two paths, but one gaze”, the event will be held on Thursday 27th October at the Prince Felipe Auditorium (Oviedo).

Both Laureates will feature in two individual performances that will open and close the Awards Week events.

The ceremony will be held on Friday 28th October at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo.