The winners of this year’s edition of the Lorenzo Natali Prize, which showcases the EU’s commitment to support journalists around the world, were announced on 26 at a ceremony hosted at the Residence Palace, in Brussels. The 2024 winners are: For the Best Emerging Journalist Prize: Jamaima Afridi was awarded this prize for her investigative […]
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Axencia Galega de Infraestruturas, among the winners of the Excellence i Road Safety Awards
On 15 november, the Commission announced the winners of the 2024 Road Safety Excellence Awards, recognising outstanding and innovative contributions to road safety across Europe. Each year, the awards reward the most outstanding contributions from the European Road Safety Charter platform – made up of organisations, authorities and companies – that have had a significant […]
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María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia awarded 2024 Sakharov Prize
The leader of Venezuela’s democratic forces and the opposition candidate in the July presidential elections will receive the 2024 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. © Miguel Gutierrez / EFE Parliament’s President Roberta Metsola announced the winners of the 2024 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in the chamber on Thursday, following the meeting of the Conference […]
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Investigation into missing unaccompanied child migrants wins the 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism
Lost in Europe on Wednesday won the 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for its investigation into the disappearance of over 50 000 unaccompanied child migrants. The investigation, run by media from Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and the UK revealed that at least 51 433 unaccompanied child migrants disappeared after arriving in […]
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EU-backed scientist David Baker, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
It is Nobel Prize time again, and an EU-funded researcher has once more made the cut. Laureate David Baker has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work on new protein development. American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his pioneering work in […]
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2024 Sakharov Prize finalists shortlisted by MEPs
Members of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Development committees have chosen the three finalists for the 2024 Sakharov Prize in a vote on Thursday. Following the secret ballot, MEPs selected the three finalists for the 2024 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. These are, in alphabetical order: – Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu, academic and anti-corruption activist in Azerbaijan; […]
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The Spanish project “Biogreenfinery” won the 2024 REGIOSTARS Award in the category “Green Europe”.
Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira, together with President of the Committee of the Regions, Vasco Alves Cordeiro, hosted the 2024 REGIOSTARS awards ceremony in Brussels as part of the 22nd European Week of Regions and Cities. The REGIOSTARS awards recognise Cohesion Policy-funded projects across Europe that encapsulate the impact and inclusiveness of regional development and have found solutions to common challenges that European regions […]
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Life+ Nature Guardians’ project from Spain and Portugal receives LIFE 2024 Citizen Award
During EU Green Week, the Commission announced the winners of this year’s LIFE Awards. The LIFE Awards recognise the most innovative, inspiring and effective projects funded by the EU’s LIFE Programme in three categories: nature protection, circular economy and quality of life, and climate action. Selected from LIFE projects across the EU, this year’s winners […]
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A Spanish institution among the 2023 Champions for Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
The Commission has announced the three winners of the 2023 Gender Equality Champions Award: Universitat Rovira i Virgili from Spain, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) from France, as well as the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest from Ireland. Each winner will receive a prize of EUR 100 000. Iliana Ivanova, […]
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