A total of 20 Nobel laureates, who are part of the jury of the King Jaume I Awards, will come together next June to hold an event in Valencia in defense of the recognition of the Albufera Natural Park as a Nature Reserve. Biosphere. The scientists recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who will meet in Valencia on June 3 and 4 to choose the winners of the 36th edition of the Jaume I, will participate in an event scheduled at the Science Museum in in favor of conserving biological diversity and offering sustainable livelihoods to the local communities surrounding the natural park. At the beginning of 2024, Valencia City Council started the process to present the candidacy of this natural space to UNESCO.
The juries will announce the seven winners of the awards among the 232 candidates, of which 25% are women, who have submitted to this year’s edition in the categories of Basic Research, Economics, Biomedical Research, Clinical Research and Health Public, Environmental Protection, New Technologies and Entrepreneur.
The executive president, Javier Quesada, and the president of the Valencian Foundation of the King Jaume I Awards, Vicente Boluda, presented this Tuesday the news of this edition, which took place at the Nau Cultural Center.
The awards program will not have changes compared to other years and the day of June 4 will begin in the General Captaincy with the reading of the Declaration of the Nobel Prize winners. Afterwards, the jury meetings will take place in which the seven winners of the 36th edition will be deliberated. And after it, the winners will be proclaimed at the Palau de la Generalitat.
This year, the jury for the awards will be made up of nearly a hundred people, of which 20 are Nobel Prize winners in different disciplines, two of whom will attend for the first time as a jury in Valencia. These are Jack Szostak, 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine (USA) and David MacMillan, 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (USA).
The jury meeting is the only event in Europe that brings together such a considerable number of Nobel Prize winners. Furthermore, like every year, the jury will have the presence of the country’s main businessmen and women, as is usual every year in the Entrepreneur jury.
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The award that has received the most nominations this year is Entrepreneur, with more than 50 people nominated and among whom there are 13 women who aspire to achieve the precious recognition. Next is Biomedical Research, with 40 candidates (9 women), to receive the 100,000 euros award and, after them, New Technologies with 34 candidates (10 women). Basic Research will have 32 candidates this year (7 women). Clinical Research and Public Health has 3 (8 women). Environmental Protection has 28 (6 women) and ends with the Economics award with 16 people nominated (5 women).
By community, Madrid is the one that presents the most candidates, followed by the Valencian Community and Catalonia. It so happens that this year applications have been obtained from practically all of the Spanish communities.
Brain drain
For this edition, the Foundation has launched the creative campaign that aims to raise awareness of the importance of innovation, science and business for any country. “We try to raise awareness about the importance of investment in science and entrepreneurship, not only to enhance our talent but also to retain it,” they defended.
The Other European Elections It is a campaign that is framed in the context of the European Parliament Elections in June 2024. A message that, far from focusing on the electoral event, focuses on the European destinations most chosen by the Spanish talent that decides to leave.
Currently, tens of thousands of researchers, doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs have left Spain in order to prosper. Among them, the United Kingdom, France or Germany are some of the ‘European elections’ that they have to face every year in search of a better work future.
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