Deadline: 14 February 2025
The BBVA Foundation with its IV CSIC-BBVA Foundation Awards for Scientific Communication recognizes and encourages the work of journalists and researchers committed to bringing scientific advances to the public in a rigorous and attractive way, as well as to improve training in this crucial field for the development of scientific culture.
The presence of science in the media is no longer confined to specialised sections, but is increasingly taking on a leading role in political, economic and social information. Scientific communication to society is of the utmost importance in an information context in which, alongside continuous and highly significant advances in numerous areas of science, hoaxes and unfounded news stories are proliferating.
Objectives
- These awards recognise all facets, channels and formats of scientific communication developed by the media, digital platforms, research centres, universities, hospitals, public agencies and institutions and companies.
- The awards cover particularly significant and innovative contributions to the dissemination of validated knowledge in all areas of science, technology and the humanities.
- There are two categories of awards: one for journalism or communication professionals specializing in scientific information, and the other for researchers who have made a significant contribution to the dissemination of knowledge to society.
Categories
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- There are two categories:
- Journalism or communication professionals specializing in scientific information.
- Researchers who have made a significant contribution to the dissemination of knowledge to society.
Prize Information
- Two prizes will be awarded annually, one per category, each worth 40,000 euros.
Eligibility Criteria
- Candidates will be individuals, active professionals of any nationality who have carried out a significant part of their scientific communication work in Spain.
Evaluation Criteria
- The evaluation committee will act with complete independence and will evaluate the applications that meet the requirements contained in these rules and will assign the awards in accordance with the evaluation criteria set out below:
- Innovation and originality of the communication activities carried out, which may consist of the publication of articles, monographs, multimedia materials or popular books; the preparation, editing or presentation of reports and documentaries; the curating and design of exhibitions or the implementation of activities in any communication channel (press, radio, television, cinema, documentaries and the Internet).
- Substantive and formal quality of the communication work developed.
- Social impact of communication activity.
For more information, visit BBVA Foundation.
