Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education at the King Jaume I Awards

The traditional meeting of the jury for the King Jaume I Awards is held in Valencia on 5 and 6 June. This 35th edition features the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education’s attendance, Elvira Fortunato, of the Regional Science Committee joint meetings, to be held in the cloisters of the Santo Domingo Convent in Valencia.

The King Jaume I Awards have the specificity of gathering a series of renowned personalities, the jury and applicants’ panel. This year, the jury has a hundred people, of which 21 are Nobel Prize winners in different fields, and four of whom will be on the jury for the first time, such as Klaus Von Klitzing, Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 (Poland), Anton Zeilinger, Physics 2022 (Austria), Ardem Patapoutian, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2021 (Greece), and Morten Meldan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 (Denmark).

On Monday at 2 pm, the Minister of Science will attend a luncheon with young students and researchers and will visit several research institutes and centres of interest in the Valencia community, together with the juris of the King Jaume I Awards. 

The Awards ceremony where the winners of this year’s edition of the King Jaume I Awards are announced is held on Tuesday 6 June at the Government Palace in Valencia (Palau de la Generalitat) at 1:30 pm.

The King Jaume I Awards were created in 1989 to promote scientific development in Spain  and are awarded on remarkable work undertaken in 6 areas: Basic Research, Economy, Medical Research, Environmental Protection, New Technologies, and Entrepreneurship.

This is an important accolade and it shows the importance given by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education to research. During its term in office, the Ministry intends to boost its international relations, especially in collaboration with Spain, and encourage scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries.   

The meeting is organised by the Valencian Foundation for Advanced Studies, the King Jaume I Awards Foundation, and the José Pastor Fuertes Foundation.