Junto con la Fundación José Pastor, las 3 fundaciones pasarán a llamarse Fundación Valenciana Premios Rei Jaume I
València, 10 de marzo 2023.- Las tres fundaciones que conviven en la sede de Pintor López de Valencia, se han fusionado esta mañana bajo el nombre de Fundación Valenciana Premios Rei Jaume I.
“El compromiso de los Premios Rei Jaume I con el impulso de la ciencia y el emprendimiento en España se extiende al menos otros 35 años más con un nuevo proyecto que apuesta por una mayor colaboración entre la ciencia, la tecnología y la empresa” afirma Javier Quesada, presidente ejecutivo “el trípode del progreso de cualquier país avanzado” ha enfatizado al finalizar la reunión en el Palau de la Generalitat donde se ha celebrado la fusión.
La fundación tiene como presidente de honor, a SM el Rey, como presidente institucional, al presidente de la Generalitat, actualmente, Ximo Puig, como presidente de la Fundación, Vicente Boluda y el presidente ejecutivo que continúa siendo Javier Quesada.
En mayo del año pasado, meses antes de su fallecimiento, Santiago Grisolía, presidente fundador de la Fundación Premios Rei Jaume I y secretario vitalicio de la Fundación Valenciana de Estudios Avanzados quiso proponer que la dos fundaciones, junto con la Fundación José Pastor Fuertes a la que acogió en sus instalaciones y facilitó el cumplimiento de sus objetivos, “unieran sus objetivos complementarios en una nueva fundación todavía más fuerte para asegurar desde Valencia el futuro del impulso de la ciencia y el emprendimiento en España. Con este objetivo, acompañado por Vicente Boluda presidente de la FVEA, visitó al presidente Puig que acogió la iniciativa con todo el interés que merecía” afirma Javier Quesada, actual representante de esta nueva fundación.
La fundación resultante, en la que cuenta con todo el apoyo de sus actuales patronos, además de las nuevas incorporaciones de BP, Diputación de Valencia, Torrecid, Empresas del Sol, Logifruit y Diputación de Alicante, continuará con las actividades desplegadas por las fundaciones preexistentes.
Estas actividades se materializarán, por una parte, en un calendario anual de actividades en el ámbito de la ciencia, el emprendimiento y la cultura que contribuyan a la discusión informada de los problemas importantes a los que se enfrentará la sociedad en el futuro. Por otra, en la organización de los Premios Rei Jaume I para promocionar la ciencia y el emprendimiento y mantener -y si es posible mejorar- el gran prestigio nacional e internacional que ahora tienen.
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Four women from the world of science and technology, two of them laureates of a Rei Jaume I Prize and the other two successful entrepreneurs, are committed to giving visibility to female role models and introducing more experimentation and a practical approach in schools from an early age so that girls can learn more about STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers and awaken their vocations.
The neuroscientist Guillermina López-Bendito, winner of the Rei Jaume I Prize for Medical Research; the marine scientist Carlota Escutia, awarded with the Rei Jaume I Prize in Environmental Protection; the director of MSD Spain Cristina Nadal, specialist in Oncology, and the CEO of the Ascires group and engineer dedicated to personalised precision medicine, Lorena Saus, have discussed how to motivate young women to study STEM careers during the conference ‘Women, Science and Business’ organised for the eighth consecutive year by the Valencian Foundation Rei Jaume I Prizes.
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The speakers agreed on the importance of girls and young women “working in what they like” and argued that women are sufficiently “powerful” to conquer traditionally male-dominated fields.
However, under the premise that “to know that you like something you have to know that it exists”, Guillermina López-Bendito pointed out that action should be taken “from the beginning”, at an early age, from three years old, “when the brain is plastic”, and explained that her vocation for science was awakened during trips to the countryside with her father.
For this reason, she called for “a change so that schools have more subjects that allow experimentation”, “touching” and “knowing”, so that girls “do not find themselves with the monster of ‘what am I going to do for a living’ when they are 18”. As an example, she explained that through experiments on flight, her son has discovered physics.
Cristina Nadal regretted that there is “a certain hypocrisy” because is talked about “women can do it, but on the other hand we have no role models”, and role models for young women are often “other” and not linked to science. “There are many things to do, and you can choose all the paths you want, but you have to let them know a little bit more that these possibilities exist,” she said.
Lorena Saus argued that “women have to go out more”, “speak out” and “be seen” to “be an example” and that girls “should not think about whether they want to be leaders because they won’t be able to”. She told her surprise when, at a summer school with highly gifted girls, a little girl who was able to meet women scientists commented at the end of her experience she realized she was intelligent and could be a scientist. “How can a highly gifted girl think she is not intelligent,” she wondered.
“We have to inspire” and also “the way universities are set up should evolve and have a more practical approach to science”, because when they start to work, graduates see “a distance between university and business”.
The geologist Carlota Escutia added that, despite the presence of women in universities, their talent “is lost” in post-doctoral stages because in Spain it is very difficult to achieve stabilization in research positions, and before this stabilization is achieved, women usually reach the age they have to decide on motherhood.
Another aspect on which the scientists agreed was that the greatest professional difficulties were encountered at the moment they decided to become mothers and had to combine their professional careers, so they have emphasized the importance of having the support of their partners and their environment.
“This world is very absorbing, it requires absolute dedication. Women often want to do many things and our personal life works against us, not because of our ability but because of our choice, and men could choose the same but they don’t do it”, commented Cristina Nadal.
The experts also focused on the importance and difficulty of believing in oneself. For Guillermina López-Bendito, “the greatest recognition one can achieve is to realize that one can do things”.
Carlota Escutia, who has spent some time in Antarctica on expeditions in which she was the only woman, said that “you have to do what you like and not let yourself be stopped by fears, and if it doesn’t work out, change it, because one should not be afraid of failure and not everything is success in life.
Journalism in crisis: the Foundation brings together five journalists and a technologist to analyze the situation and the future of the sector in the AIera.
The figure of the journalist will continue to be fundamental to verify and be a reliable source in the face of the exponential content and disinformation on the web, concluded the panel of speakers at the conference.
The media are in crisis, but journalism continues to play a fundamental role and the sector must adapt to technologies and evolve to reach all audiences. This was one of the conclusions shared by the panel of participants at the conference: Journalism in crisis? In wich have participated as speakers the deputy director of El Mundo, Juan Fornieles, the director of Valencia Plaza, Javier Alfonso, the director of Radio Valencia Cadena Ser, Bernardo Guzmán, the director of Radio Televisión Española in the Valencia Region, Arantxa Torres, the founding president of Innsomnia, Rafa Navarro, and the technologist Elena Yndurain.
Moderated by the Foundation’s director of communication, Laura Torrado, the aim of this meeting was to reflect on and shed light on a sector, especially that of the written press, which is going through a long period of crisis. In the words of the executive president, Javier Quesada, who opened the conference, “I believe that we are going through a critical moment, we have gone from reduced information to a world where networks fragment information”.
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Media companies vs. journalism
In this context, the first to speak was the deputy director of El Mundo, Juan Fornieles. The format in which he works, printed, is precisely one of the most affected by the media crisis and the emergence of digital, but in spite of this, for him, “Print journalism continues to be a source that feeds the rest of the media. The influential readers in this country still want to see themselves in printed press, and that’s how we survive”.
Although he does not ignore the decline of the printed press, he believes that there is still a connection with readers that allows it to continue to have a future. Moreover, “The printed world achieves a different approach to the reader. It differentiates opinion from information more than digital media. The way of dealing with information is very different and that is the strength of the print media. If you already have a print media, you have a diamond. I am not going to bury print journalism”.
For Javier Alfonso, director of Valencia Plaza “In 2008 I predicted that in 2013 there would be no more paper newspapers, so as a visionary I have no future. The key to the survival of the paper model is the pdf format, because the paper product is a closed format that is different from the digital one. The newspaper is a closed product, and many people of a middle-aged generation still have that habit”.
However, Alfonso launched an important reflection, and that is that the Internet has become an “amalgam” of things that generate a lot of confusion, “Anyone sets up a platform that calls it a newspaper or the tiktok phenomenon, that there are several youth initiatives that make a newspaper, but in reality it is not journalism, because they take the news from other media and they transmit it with the language of young people. But that is not journalism, they do communication. Journalism in general is not in crisis because there are still some very good professionals, including young people. That journalistic vein is maintained, the problem is to make it profitable”.
The RTVE delegate in the Valencian Community, Arantxa Torres, prefers to be optimistic, “it is true that television has a limiting component which is audiovisual, image, video, and the problem we are facing is that we have ceased to be content producers. Therefore, our role is to contextualize information, to clarify that information, in the face of the multiplicity of channels and the quantity of information”. And in this sense, he emphasized that “There is a content crisis, but we must insist on being good professionals and credible sources, so that citizens have quality sources”.
Referring to the title of the reflection, Bernardo Guzmán, director of Radio Valencia Cadena Ser in the Comunitat Valenciana, said that “journalism itself is not in crisis, because it is a value for democracy, although there are threats, the problem is that journalistic companies are clearly in crisis. And this is an undeniable problem that can affect journalism”.
Technology and AI: threat or opportunity?
Guzmán was also optimistic about the contribution of technology, “I believe that technology, like the industrial revolution, should be seen as an opportunity, not a threat, and although AI can have many factors, I see it as an opportunity. In radio, all technological advances have offered us advantages. For example, the great advance in the world of radio has been digital, and thanks to this the medium is no longer ephemeral. Now it can be listened to on demand, it is not lost. So I would like to think that it will help us to improve a lot more. In any case, Guzmán believes that radio continues to provide a benefit that other media have lost, and that is the capillarity combining local, regional and international “is a strength, as long as it is viable as a journalistic enterprise”.
The journalist, and now dedicated to the world of the company Innsomnia, Rafa Navarro affirms that we are not in a crisis, but in a transformation, “That it scares us, yes, that we are moving towards a new world, of course. Whoever knows how to adapt will have a good outlook, yes, but this is not only in journalism, but in all sectors. As journalists, we must adapt, as in all sectors.
Navarro believes that print journalism will continue to exist, but the key, as several speakers said, lies in verification, “the journalist will have to pass the veracity machine and the one with the least bias will be the one with the most paper. The journalist as a consultant is essential to ensure that the information is understood, to make it comprehensible. In addition, the freedom of the citizen must be protected, which is what we must maintain.
The debate also featured a technologist, not a journalist, to contribute her vision from the perspective of technology, Elena Yndurain. For her, who has lived the digital sector from the inside, “There has always been mistrust of technology, I have seen it with all the technologies that have appeared, including now with AI, with the GPT Chat. It is a very useful tool. Technology has two sides of the coin, a very good side, analyzing information faster, but also a side that pushes the limits. In journalism you must be more technologists and more sociologists to know how our audience wants information. Technology has gone from being in the background, now it’s in the foreground.
Yndurain, however, did want to draw attention to one issue regarding AI and the new technologies derived from it: “We should learn from the past, for example, from social networks with fake news, etc., and AI will have to learn from that, because it also learns from what already exists. It is important to reflect on where we come from and avoid mistakes. We are training these algorithms with the information already generated”.
In short, and as a conclusion to all the reflections of this conference, technology must be used to improve journalism and journalistic companies. Beyond formats, which will evolve to adapt to new needs, journalists will continue to play a fundamental role, perhaps more than ever in an era of exponential information, in the verification of information and the positioning of reliable sources.
Businessmen, research institutes and prizes winners, among others, participated in the event, organized by the Rei Jaume I Prizes Foundation with the collaboration of the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs (AVE) and ADEFAN. All of them have been reminded that the deadline for submitting candidatures for this year’s edition is now open.
Research, science and the private sector share a clear vocation to serve society. However, their agents (universities, research centers and companies) are not completely aligned. The Rei Jaume I Prizes, presented at a meeting held at the Museum of the University of Navarra in Pamplona, seek precisely to reduce this distance, and bring the two sectors closer together in order to promote the growth and development of society.
The researchers and entrepreneurs invited to the round table discussion held on the occasion of this presentation day debated precisely all of this. A forum moderated by the science popularizer, professor at the University of La Rioja and presenter of the TVE program Órbita Laika, Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, in which the participants agreed on the need to promote meeting forums that foster the necessary trust and in which they called for greater public-private collaboration to bring science closer, above all to SMEs.
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Yolanda Torres, vice-president of MTorres and member of ADEFAN, particularly emphasized this demand. “Large and medium-sized companies also need small companies to have access to technology and innovation so that they can continue to generate value in the market”, she explained. There, Torres considered that the role that the administration and its one-stop shops should play “is fundamental”. “As a society, we cannot allow small companies to continue to be left out of major research projects,” he said.
Along the same lines, Benito Jiménez, president, CEO of Congelados de Navarra, associate of ADEFAN and winner of the Rei Jaume I award in the Entrepreneur category in 2021, defended the need to generate research ecosystems “that go far beyond the issue of tax incentives”. “The more collaboration, the more entrepreneurs will be willing to invest in research”, he added.
For his part, the scientific director of the CIMA of the University of Navarra, Antonio Pineda, raised the importance of discussing the “intangibles” that facilitate the movement of researchers and scientists. “I would like to see this aspect addressed more in order to facilitate the attraction of talent,” he said. Meanwhile, Inés Echeverría, director of R&D&I at CNTA, highlighted the opportunities, benefits and advantages that biotechnology, digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) “applied in a broad manner to achieve increasingly efficient organisations” are going to bring, with a view to the future.
“EMPLOYERS MUST STEP UP”.
Previously, the president of the Foundation, Vicente Boluda, also the highest representative of the Valencian Association of Businessmen (AVE), recalled that “these awards should be launched by civil society and we are here with the sole aim of being known and supported”. In his opinion, the world’s leading regions are those in which the private sector is most involved. “Entrepreneurs must take a step forward by opening the doors of our organisations to scientists and researchers who allow us to innovate and, with this, to develop our business projects,” he added.
Meanwhile, the executive president of the Rei Jaume I Awards, Javier Quesada, was in charge of presenting the Rei Jaume I Awards in Pamplona, its trajectory, its award winners and its main aims. In this sense, he warned that “if a significant part of the GDP is not invested in science, the consequences will be extremely serious and the longer it takes for companies to approach Science and Technology, the more Spain will run the risk of falling into the second or third international division”.
Along the same lines, the president of the Association for the Development of Family Businesses in Navarre (ADEFAN), Iñaki Ecay, called for society to be made aware of “the real contribution that companies make not only on an economic level but also in social and environmental matters”.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS OPEN
The presentation, which took place at the Museo Universidad de Navarra, on the university campus in Pamplona, was organised by the Rei Jaume I Awards Foundation with the collaboration of the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs (AVE) and the Association for the Development of Family Businesses in Navarra (ADEFAN).
The aim of this initiative is to bring the business world closer to science and research, whose contribution is essential for the growth and evolution of society. After presentations in Zaragoza, Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona, Seville and Santiago, the Awards have been presented in Pamplona under the slogan “At the service of Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”. The deadline for submitting candidates for the different candidatures is open until 1 April and they can be submitted on the website: www.fprj.es
Promoting the development of science, research and entrepreneurship to contribute to the growth and evolution of society is the main objective of the Rei Jaume I Awards Foundation, which every year, for 35 years, has been awarding prizes in different categories to researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs whose work has been carried out mainly in Spain.
Among the members of the jury that decides the winners are around twenty Nobel Prize winners, who meet every year for this purpose in Valencia. This year, the event will take place on 3 and 4 June. The prize consists of a financial award of 100,000 euros, with a commitment to reinvest part of it in research, together with a medal and diploma.
Caption 1. From left to right. Bottom row: Javier Quesada, executive president of the Rei Jaume I Awards Valencian Foundation; Francisco Javier Arregui, vice-rector of Research of the UPNA; Paloma Grau, vice-rector of Research of the University of Navarra; Vicente Boluda, president of the Rei Jaume I Awards Valencian Foundation; Mikel Irujo, Regional Minister for Industry, Ecological Transition and Digital Business of the Government of Navarre; Eduardo Saénz de Cabezón, science populariser, mathematician, lecturer at the University of La Rioja and presenter of the TVE programme Órbita Laika. From left to right. Top row: Benito Jiménez, president and CEO of Congelados de Navarra; Antonio Pineda, scientific director of CIMA University of Navarra; Yolanda Torres, vice-president of MTorres; Iñaki Ecay, president of ADEFAN; Inés Echeverría, director of R&D&I CNTA
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