Deadline approaching for call for nominations for the 15th Carlos V European Award!
The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation opens the call for nominations for the 15th Carlos V European Award!
The deadline to submit nominations for persons, organisations, projects or initiatives that have contributed, with their effort and dedication, to the general knowledge and enhancement of the cultural, social, scientific and historical values of Europe, as well as to the process of European construction and integration, is open until 28th February 2022.
The solemn ceremony of the Carlos V European Award, which is celebrated around the 9th May, Europe Day, at the Royal Monastery of Yuste, becomes an act of State supported by the Royal House of His Majesty the King of Spain, Felipe VI, who holds the honorary presidency of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation. This institutional act brings together European and Ibero-American personalities and turns Yuste into the focus and epicenter of Europeanism.
The announcement of the call, published in the Official Journal of Extremadura region in Spain (DOE), includes the requirements set out, where the novelty this year is that they allow any citizen or institution to submit nominations with the aim of giving greater prominence and participation to citizens, thus making them an active subject in this Award. Nominations may be also submitted in Spanish or English by those awarded in earlier editions; members of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste; all the Spanish Embassies in the world; diplomatic representations in Spain of the countries specified in the call; institutions, public, cultural, scientific, university or socioeconomic entities from: Member States of the European Union; countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA); members of the European Economic Area (EEA) and countries that are candidates and potential candidates for accession to the European Union.
Nominations will be formalised by sending the official form published on Yuste Foundation’s website: https://www.fundacionyuste.org/en/the-european-carlos-v-award/convocatoria-2022/ , where can be also downloaded the call for nominations and the regulation of the call. The nominations must include an accrediting memory of the merits of the proposed person or entity. In addition, any documents that provide relevant and additional information on the nomination, as well as other support, may be attached.
The award is endowed with 30,000 euros. The person or institution awarded, when accepting the award, must undertake to attend the award ceremony, as well as to participate in the European Doctoral Seminar, which will be held under his/her/its name at the Royal Monastery of Yuste.
Yuste Foundation awarded the first Carlos V European Award to Jacques Delors in 1995, which was subsequently awarded to Wilfried Martens; Felipe González; Mijail Gorbachov; Jorge Sampaio; Helmut Kohl; Simone Veil; Javier Solana; José Manuel Durão Barroso; Sofia Corradi; Marcelino Oreja; Antonio Tajani; the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe and Angela Merkel.
Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies
The Award also includes the Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies are associated to it. These are addressed to European researchers who are working on their doctoral thesis. The subject of these grants is adapted to the proposal made by the winner of the Award in every edition. The chosen researchers in every edition participate in the Carlos V European Award Doctoral Seminar organised by the Foundation where they present their work, and on top the Foundation guarantees the publication of their work in a book with a prestigious international academic publishing house. Till present, more than 100 researchers from all Europe and from non-European countries, such as those from the Mediterranean basin and Ibero-America, have been beneficiaries of these grants.
All these specialist researchers in European subjects make up Yuste’s Euro and Ibero-American Alumni Network, established to enable the exchange of projects and information among its members, and to promote analysis and reflection on current issues related to Europe and Ibero-America from a multidisciplinary perspective. This Alumni Network, spreads throughout the world’s main universities and research centres, is indissolubly united to Extremadura. In this manner, a set of nodes have been created in order to unite the talent that holds a bond with Extremadura and an umbilical cord with Yuste, which was and remains one of the places where Europe is though about.