The meetings of the juries responsible for granting the 2025 Princess of Asturias Awards will commence on 29th April

Around 160 public figures will make up the eight Juries responsible for granting the 2025 Princess of Asturias Awards (one for each Award). The first jury will meet this coming 29th April. This will be the forty-fith edition of the Awards conferred annually by the Princess of Asturias Foundation.

Deliberations will take place at the Barceló Oviedo Cervantes Hotel and at the Reconquista Hotel. The specific location of each meeting will be made known together with the announcement of the corresponding Jury, in keeping with the following schedule:

APRIL

• Arts: 29th and 30th April

MAY

• Communication and Humanities: 6th and 7th May
• Literature: 13th and 14th May
• Social Sciences : 20th and 21st May
• Sports: 27th and 28th May

JUNE

• Concord: 3rd and 4th June
• Technical and Scientific Research: 11th and 12th June
• International Cooperation: 17th and 18th June

On the first day of each meeting, the members of the corresponding Jury will pose for a group photo at 11:00am, following which they will meet with the media, immediately prior to the beginning of deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. Each jury’s decision will be announced at 12 noon (GMT+02:00) on the second day it meets: in the Salón Regenta function room, in the case of the Barceló Oviedo Cervantes Hotel; and in the Salón Covadonga function room, at the Reconquista Hotel.

As is customary, the presentation of the Princess of Asturias Awards will take place in October in a solemn ceremony presided over by Their Majesties The King and Queen of Spain, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía. Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of €50,000.

Nominations submitted

At the close of the period for submitting nominations, namely 6th March last, the Foundation’s offices had received 354 candidatures from 60 countries. 

Laureates from previous years and members of the Juries –provided they do not present nominations for the Award in the category corresponding to the jury of which they are a member– may submit nominations up to six calendar days before the date on which the jury corresponding to the category for which they put forward such nominations is constituted. 

Furthermore, those who have submitted nominations include prestigious universities, academic and cultural institutions, research centres of international scope, Spain’s ambassadors and representatives of the accredited diplomatic corps in Spain.