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Meeting of the jury for the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
47 nominations encompassing 15 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the second of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 44th year.
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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities will meet this coming 29th and 30th April in Oviedo. This is the second of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 44th year. A total of 47 candidatures encompassing 15 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Barceló Oviedo Cervantes 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 the Communication and Humanities is to be granted to “the work of fostering and advancing the sciences and disciplines considered humanistic activities or any activity related to social communication in any of its forms.”
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.
On the first day of the meeting at 11:00am on Monday 29th, there will be a family photo of the jury members in the hotel’s “Salón Regenta”, followed by a meeting with the media, immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. 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 Tuesday 30th, in the “Salón Regenta”, 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:
- Víctor García de la Concha (chair)
- Óscar Loureda Lamas (acting secretary)
- Luis María Anson Oliart
- Rosa María Calaf Solé
- Irene Cano Piquero
- Gabriela Cañas Pita de la Vega
- Concepción Cascajosa Virino
- Adela Cortina Orts
- Estrella de Diego Otero
- Miguel Falomir Faus
- Taciana Fisac Badell
- Álex Grijelmo García
- Alma Guillermoprieto
- Miguel Ángel Liso Tejada
- Catalina Luca de Tena y García-Conde, marquesa del Valle de Tena
- Miguel Ángel Oliver Fernández
- Enrique Pascual Pons
- Carmen Riera i Guilera
- Diana Sorensen
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