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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Nacho Alarcón, Íñigo Picabea and Sylvia Fernández de Bobadilla, winners of the Salvador de Madariaga European Journalism Award
The Salvador de Madariaga European Journalism Prize celebrates three decades. The jury has just announced the winners of the 2024 edition. The winner in the written press category is Nacho Alarcón, from El Confidencial; Íñigo Picabea, from Radio Nacional de España, for radio, while Sylvia Fernández de Bobadilla, from Televisión Española, has been awarded in […]
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Discover the winners of the EU Contemporary Architecture Awards 2024
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the Winners of the 2024 edition after the jury visited the 7 finalist works. The award ceremony will be held on 14 May in Barcelona. After visiting the finalist works, the 7 members of the international jury picked the Study Pavilion on the […]
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European Commission announces winners of the New European Bauhaus 2024 Awards
The Commission today announced 20 winners of the New European Bauhaus (NBE) 2024 awards, for the fourth consecutive year, organised with cohesion policy funding. These awards reward outstanding projects and initiatives that combine sustainability, inclusiveness and aesthetics, demonstrating how the European Green Pact transition can practically enrich the lives of individuals and communities. The […]
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The Forum for the Future of the EU, Spanish winner of the Charlemagne Youth Prize 2024
The project Forum on the Future of the EU, by “Equipo Europa”, has been the winner in Spain of the 2024 edition of the Charlemagne Youth Prize. The aim of this project, which was carried out in the context of the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council and the European election year, is to bring […]
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A Spaniard among the three winners of the EU Prize for Women Innovators
The Commission has announced the winners of the 10th edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The winner of the “Emerging Innovators” category is María González Manso, CEO and co-founder of tucuvi, which automates follow-up phone consultations using empathic artificial intelligence. In the Women Innovators category, the winner Rana Sanyal (Turkey) is the Chief […]
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