THE JURY MEETING FOR THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 2008
The meetings of the jury responsible for awarding the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the third of eight international awards that will be bestowed by the Prince of Asturias Foundation, will be held on June 3rd and 4th . The awards will be bestowed this year for the twenty-eighth time in their history.
The Prince of Asturias Awards aim, to quote from the Statutes of the Foundation "to reward the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanistic work performed by individuals, groups or institutions worldwide." As part of this spirit, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research "will be bestowed upon the individual, work group or institution whose discoveries or research represent a significant contribution to the progress of humanity in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Earth and Space Sciences, as well as their related technical aspects and technologies".
There are 43 nominations in the running for this Award - excluding those that the members of the jury might themselves propose before the jury is called to session - from Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela and Spain.
The Award is endowed with fifty thousand Euro, a sculpture created and specially donated for the Awards by Joan Miró, a diploma and an insignia
Members of the juries will hold an initial meeting with the media at about 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday 3rd in the "Salón de Consejos" of the hotel (on the first floor), immediately prior to being formally convened and starting their deliberations. The jury will then elect a president from amongst them. The Jury secretary will be appointed by the Foundation.
Their decision will be made public at 12.00 a.m. on Wednesday 4th in the Salón Covadonga of the hotel (on the ground floor), and jury members will then be available for interviews.
The reading of the Jury's decision will be broadcast by CNN+ and Euronews and the signal will be openly transmitted via the Hispasat and Intelsat satelites. In addition, there will be a live Internet broadcast at the Foundation's website:
Fundacion Príncipe de Asturias
THE JURY MEETING FOR THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 2008