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Meeting of the jury for the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
34 nominations encompassing 13 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 44th year.
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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation will meet this coming 28th and 29th May in Oviedo. This is the sixth of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 44th year. A total of 34 candidatures encompassing 13 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at 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 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.
On the first day of the meeting at 11:00am on Tuesday 28th, 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 Wednesday 29th, 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:
- Gustavo Suárez-Pertierra (chair)
- Manuel Toharia Cortés (acting secretary)
- Pedro Luis Alonso Fernández
- Maite Arango García-Urtiaga
- Miguel Ballenilla y García de Gamarra
- Andrés Conde Solé
- Laura Díaz Anadón
- Pedro Duque Duque
- Gloria Fernández- Lomana García
- Rodrigo García González
- Luis García Montero
- Charo Izquierdo Martínez
- Mònica Margarit Ribalta
- Sophie Muller
- Juan Carlos del Olmo Castillejos
- Ana Pastor Julián
- Rafael Puyol Antolín
- Isaac Querub Caro
- Ignacio Villaverde Menéndez
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