Prince of Asturias Awards 2008

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THE CALL FOR THE 2008 PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS NOW OPEN

THE CALL FOR THE 2008 PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS NOW OPEN

The Prince of Asturias Foundation has begun distribution of the pamphlet containing the official announcement for candidatures and rules for the 2008 Prince of Asturias Awards. Thus, the period for presenting candidatures for these Awards - which are all international in scope and which are now being held for the twenty-eighth time - is open. This pamphlet is sent to research centres, academies, universities, the diplomatic corps and major figures world-wide.

Thousands of pamphlets are mailed in Spain and distributed by special courier service elsewhere.

There are eight Prince of Asturias Awards: Communication and Humanities, the Arts, Letters, Social Sciences, Technical and Scientific Research, International Cooperation, Sports and Concord. They are intended, to quote the Foundations Statutes, "to reward the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanistic work performed by individuals, groups, or institutions world-wide."

The deadline for proposing candidates is March 14th 2008. This date is extended till July 25th for the Concord and Sports Awards.

Each of the Prince of Asturias Awards has its own jury, made up of specialists in the area, with the exception of the Concord Award jury, which is made up of the Patrons of the Prince of Asturias Foundation.

Since the Prince of Asturias Awards were inaugurated in 1981 they have acquired considerable international prestige. The grand presentation ceremony is traditionally held in autumn at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias. It is presided over by H.R.H. the Prince of Asturias, accompanied by H.R.H. the Princess of Asturias and is attended by outstanding figures from national and international social and cultural circles.

Each of the eight Prince of Asturias Awards comprises of a symbolic emblem - a Joan Miró statue - a cash prize of Euro 50,000, an insignia bearing the Foundation´s arms, and a diploma.


Prince of Asturias Awards 2007
Prince of Asturias Awards 2007

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Ingrid Betancourt, Clara Rojas y Consuelo González del Perdomo, nominadas al Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia

Ingrid Betancourt, Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez del Perdomo nominated to the Prince of Asturias of the Concord

Ingrid Betancourt, politics of Colombian and French nationality kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2002, has been proposed together with the hostages recently liberated Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo, like candidate to Prince of Asturias of the Concord Award for several personalities and international organizations, as informed sources near the Foundation that grants the awards. The meeting of the juror entrusted to trump the prize will take place next September.
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SUMMONED THE PRIZE TO THE EXEMPLARY VILLAGE OF ASTURIAS 2008

The term of presentation of candidacies for this award, which reaches already nineteenth edition, will finish on August 14.

The Foundation Prince of Asturias has begun the distribution of more than thousand copies of the leaflet that contains the Summons and Regulation of the Prize to the Exemplary Village of Asturias 2008, in nineteenth edition. The Foundation summons this award from 1990 and in its economic endowment, of twenty-five thousand Euros, the Government of the Principality contributes to fifty per cent.

The Prize to the Exemplary Village of Asturias has constituted along its editions in one of the initiatives of the Foundation of more wide and better reception inside the Principality, on the " people having been destined to reward, village, population, landscape space or human group of the Asturias that has stood out in a notable way in the defense and conservation of its natural, environmental environment, of its historical, cultural or artistic patrimony, or also in the accomplishment of communal works or other excellent manifestations of solidarity ".

CONVOCADO EL PREMIO AL PUEBLO EJEMPLAR DE ASTURIAS 2008

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OVER 200 CANDIDATURES FROM THIRTY-FOUR COUNTRIES IN CONTENTION FOR THE 2008 PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS

More than two hundred candidatures from over thirty-four countries across the five continents have been nominated for this year´s Prince of Asturias Awards, now being held for the twenty-eighth time.

The nomination period closed at 2 p.m. today, Friday 14th. Figures will be swelled during the coming weeks by nominations made at Spanish embassies and consulates abroad, as well as by candidatures proposed by the members of the Juries for each category, who have until two days before the Jury is convened.

Nominations for Sports Concord and Awards must be in by 25th July, as the corresponding Jury meeting will take place in September.

OVER 200 CANDIDATURES FROM THIRTY-FOUR COUNTRIES IN CONTENTION FOR THE 2008 PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS

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THE JURIES IN CHARGE OF GRANTING THE 2008 PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS IN ITS 28TH EDITION ARE TO BEGIN MEETING ON 20th MAY

THE JURIES IN CHARGE OF GRANTING THE 2008 PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS IN ITS 28TH EDITION ARE TO BEGIN MEETING ON 20th MAY

More than 150 public figures are to make up the eight juries (one for each category) in charge of granting the Prince of Asturias Awards and are to begin convening next 20th May. This year marks the Awards´ twenty eighth edition.

Deliberations are to take place at the Hotel de la Reconquista in Oviedo according to the following schedule:

MAY
Arts:......................................................20th and 21st May
International Cooperation:......................27th and 28th May

JUNE
Scientific and Technical Research:.........3rd and 4th June
Communication and Humanities:..........10th and 11th June
Social Sciences:..................................17th and 18th June
Letters:...............................................24th and 25th June

SEPTEMBER
Sports:........................................2nd and 3rd September
Concord:....................................9th and 10th September

The members of the corresponding Jury will be holding a press conference on the first day of meetings at 10.30 am, right before the deliberations are set to begin. The Jury´s decision is to be made public at 12 pm on the second day of deliberations of each of the juries.