Nominations for the Premi Internacional Catalunya
2024 Announcement#

We are pleased to inform you that the call for applications for the XXXVI Premi Internacional Catalunya 2024 is open until 29th February 2024.

Through this award, the Government of Catalonia recognizes people who contribute decisively with their creative work to develop cultural, scientific or human values around the world. It endows the winner with 80,000 euros, who is also given the sculpture The Key and the Letter, by Antoni Tàpies.

Applications must be submitted electronically, through Procedures gencat. The candidacies for the award can be submitted by academies, cultural or research centres, and other institutions of similar purpose, or members of the jury, and must include a CV of the candidate.

Further information.

Bases#

1. The Premi Internacional Catalunya is awarded annually by the Generalitat of Catalonia.

2. The Jury of the Premi Internacional Catalunya is made up of noteworthy personalities from the world of science, economics, arts and culture.

3. Any person whose creative work has made a significant contribution to the development of cultural, scientific or human values any where in the world may be nominated for the Premi Internacional Catalunya.

4. Nominations for the Premi Internacional Catalunya may be made by academies, cultural or research centres and other similar institutions, or by the members of the Jury, and they should include the candidate’s curriculum vitae. Submissions for 2024 may be received until February 29, and they should preferably be submitted through the Gencat's page Procedures (tramits.gencat.cat). Nevertheless, they can be presented in paper format, addressed to the Department of the Presidency (Sant Honorat Street, 1-3, 08002 Barcelona).

5. The Premi Internacional Catalunya may not be awarded posthumously.

6. The Premi Internacional Catalunya may only be granted to a single individual, except in those cases in which the Jury establishes a justification for awarding it jointly to more than one person.

7. The Premi Internacional Catalunya must be awarded to the winner at a ceremony presided over the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, to which members of the Jury are convoked.

8. The XXXVI Premi Internacional Catalunya is endowed with an award of 8o.ooo euros and the sculpture “The Key and the Letter” of Antoni Tàpies.

Jury#

• President
  Pere Aragonès i Garcia
  President of the Generalitat of Catalonia

• President Delegate
  Mary Ann Newman
  Linguist

• Members
  Núria Basi, Businesswoman
  Lana Bastašic, Writer
  Juan Manuel Bonet, Art critic
  Agustí Colomines, Historian
  María C. Freire, Biophysicist
  Joan J. Guinovart MAE, Biochemist
  Barbara Hendricks, Soprano
  Therese Jamaa, Technological directive
  Andreu Mas-Colell MAE,Economist
  Edgar Morin, Philosopher
  Bel Olid, Writer and translator
  Carme Pigem, Architect
  Josep Ramoneda, Writer and Philosopher
  Richard Sennett, Sociologist

Secretariat#

Teresa Sala
Generalitat of Catalonia
Department of the Presidency - Technical Office

Secretaria del Premi Internacional Catalunya
Departament de la Presidència - Gabinet Tècnic
Generalitat de Catalunya
Palau de la Generalitat - Pça. Sant Jaume, 4
08002 Barcelona
A/e: pic@gencat.cat
http://www.gencat.cat/pic

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