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FPdGi Awards 14/10/2022
Submission period open for nominations for the 2023 FPdGi International Award

The FPdGi presents its International Award with the aim of recognising the professional and personal careers of young people in any part of the world who stand out for their work, their merits and their exemplarity. The impact must always be considered in its broadest dimension, in that their contributions extend and/or are known on an international level.
10/05/2022
Vietnamese environmental activist and writer Trang Nguyen, 2022 FPdGi International Award

She was chosen for her courageous and inspiring nature conservation work in her own country and other parts of the world.
27/04/2022
Physicist and researcher Eleonora Viezzer, 2022 FPdGi Scientific Research Award

The winner was chosen for her contribution to tackling the global energy problem using nuclear fusion.
07/04/2022
Psychologist and social entrepreneur Claudia Tecglen García, 2022 FPdGi Social Award

The winner was chosen for her social impact through the promotion of equal opportunities in her actions and for the quality of her management and transparency. The jury also highlighted her “exemplarity as an inspiring role model for other young people”.
16/03/2022
Catalan engineer Elisenda Bou-Balust, 2022 FPdGi Business Award
FPdGi Awards 07/03/2022
Actor María Hervás, 2022 FPdGi Arts and Literature Award

Actor, dramatist and producer María Hervás has won the 2022 Princess of Girona Foundation Arts and Literature Award.
01/07/2021
Salvador Tasqué, new director general of the FPdGi

Last Thursday 1 July, coinciding with the 2020-2021 FPdGi Awards ceremony at CaixaForum in Barcelona, the ordinary meeting of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, under the presidency of HM the King, approved the appointment of Salvador Tasqué as Director General of the Foundation (replacing Mònica Margarit Ribalta).
01/07/2021
Ten stories of leadership demonstrate young people’s leading role nowadays

The winners of the 2020 and 2021 Awards received their prizes in an audiovisual ceremony focusing on the new generation’s capacity for transformation after COVID-19.
FPdGi Awards 10/05/2021
Colombian social entrepreneur Juan David Aristizábal, 2021 International Award

The winner was chosen for “supporting young people in Latin America through training, education, technology and an entrepreneurial spirit”, and for transforming personal adversity into a virtue by leveraging it to create social projects for the common good.
FPdGi Awards 29/04/2021
Biotechnologist César de la Fuente Núñez, FPdGi Scientific Research Award

The winner was chosen for his leadership and outstanding scientific work in the field of computational biology, which unites extraordinary scientific productivity with the capacity to transfer the technology developed.