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Meeting of the jury for the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
36 nominations encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the sixth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 43rd year.
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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation will meet this coming 31st May and 1st June in Oviedo. This is the sixth of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 43rd year. A total of 36 candidatures encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista Hotel.
As stated in the Foundation’s Regulations, 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 International Cooperation is to be granted the “individual or collective work, in cooperation with another or others, to develop and promote public health, universal education, and the protection and defence of the environment, as well as the economic, cultural and social advancement of all peoples.”
Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.
The members of the Jury will hold an initial meeting with the media at 11:00am on Wednesday 31st May in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” reception room (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am, after the group photograph. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.
The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Thursday 1st June, in the “Salón Covadonga” reception room in the same hotel (ground floor), following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.
Composition of the Jury
The Jury will be made up of the following persons:
- Gustavo Suárez Pertierra (presidente)
- Manuel Toharia Cortés (secretario)
- Pedro Luis Alonso Fernández
- Maite Arango García-Urtiaga
- Eugenia Bieto Caubet
- Francisco de Paula Bisbal Pons
- Andrés Conde Solé
- Beatriz Domínguez-Gil González
- Pedro Duque Duque
- Rodrigo García González
- Charo Izquierdo Martínez
- Iñigo Losada Rodríguez
- Mònica Margarit Ribalta
- Sophie Muller
- Sami Naïr
- Carmen Noguero Galilea
- Juan Carlos del Olmo Castillejos
- Ana Pastor Julián
- Rafael Puyol Antolín
- Isaac Querub Caro
- Ignacio Villaverde Menéndez
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