The Foundation is to extend "Awards Week" to mark the 10 years HRH The Princess of Asturias has been Honorary President of the institution and following her coming of age

The Princess of Asturias Foundation is to expand the activities of “Awards Week” to mark the ten years Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias has been Honorary President of the institution and following her coming of age. To this end, a special programme has been put together featuring Laureates from previous years and their work.  There will be fifteen events in all, which are to take place between the 12th and 26th October, coinciding with this year’s “Awards Week”.

Ten Laureates are to participate in the aforementioned events: Carmen Linares (2022), María Pagés (2022), Ingrid Daubechies (2020), Juan Mayorga (2022), Siri Hustvedt (2019), John Banville (2014), Leonardo Padura (2015), Jeffrey Gordon (2023), Lindsey Vonn (2019) and Teresa Perales (2021). In addition, Mary Beard (2016) and Sandra Myrna Díaz (2019) will feature in a special edition of the “Taking the Floor” educational programme that will be launched in November.

This initiative draws on the precedent of the visit in 2023 by Martin Cooper (joint 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research), who returned to Asturias within the context of the Awards Ceremony and met with engineering students and schoolchildren, among other activities.

Tenth anniversary of "Taking the Floor"

As part of this commemoration and also to mark the tenth anniversary of this project, the Foundation is to launch a special edition of the “Taking the Floor” cultural programme for schools in the Principality of Asturias. This novel programme will commence in November 2024 and continue throughout 2025, reaching out to include a selection of primary, secondary and vocational training schools in other Spanish regions.

The Foundation has a firm commitment to those scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind’s universal heritage. In addition to commemorating the coming of age of its Honorary President, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias, this special programme is an example of the Foundation’s constant efforts to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge, to provide role models and to inspire new generations through the legacy of its Laureates.