The Foundation launches the “Deliberación Triunfo” campaign aimed at younger generations to promote and retain scientific talent.

● A total of 20 Nobel Laureates, four of whom will be attending for the first time, will be part of the jury that will select the seven laureates.
● Female nominations have increased by 25%, accounting for more than a third of the 226 candidates, while more than half of the panel is made up of women.
● As a new development, two Nobel Laureates will visit the Benetússer High School, which was affected by the DANA earthquake last October.

The traditional Jury Meeting will be held in Valencia on June 2 and 3. The jury will determine the seven winners of the 37th Rei Jaume I Awards 2025 in the following categories: Basic Research, Economics, Biomedical Research, Clinical Research and Public Health, Environmental Protection, New Technologies, and Business Revelation.
The Executive President, Javier Quesada, and the President of the Valencian Foundation for the Rei Jaume I Prizes, Vicente Boluda, were responsible for presenting the latest developments for this year’s awards.

This year, the jury will be composed of nearly 100 people, of whom 20 are Nobel Laureates in different disciplines, four of whom will be serving as jurors in Valencia for the first time. They are Dr. Guido Imbens, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Economics (Netherlands-USA); Dr. Duncan Haldane, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Physics (USA); Dr. Douglas Diamond, 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics (USA); Dr. Charles Rice, 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine (USA).

As every year, as part of the Nobel Laureate program, they will visit various research centers and universities. In addition, as a novelty this year, two of them will visit the María Carbonell Secondary School in Benetússer on Monday, June 2nd, one of the schools affected by the DANA that struck the southern region of Valencia. There, they will have the opportunity to meet students in the final years of secondary school and high school, and will be able to speak and interact with the young students.

The Jury Meeting is the only event in Europe that brings together such a significant number of Nobel Laureates. Furthermore, as every year, the jury will include the country’s leading businessmen and women, as is customary every year on the jury for the Business Revelation Prize.

A total of 226 nominations
A total of 226 people, 25% of whom are women, are applying this year to be one of the seven recipients of the Rei Jaume I Prizes dedicated to the promotion of Research, Science, and Entrepreneurship. The awards will be decided next June by a jury of more than 100 people, including 20 Nobel Laureates.
Female nominations have increased by 25% and now represent more than a third of the 226 candidates, while more than half of the panel is made up of women.

Creative Campaign
As every year, the Jury Meeting is used to attract public attention with a creative campaign that aims to raise awareness of the importance of innovation, science, and business for any country. This year, the focus is on science, research, and entrepreneurship, and to advocate for the retention of talent in Spain, under the title “Deliberation Triumph.”
Thus, coinciding with the launch of the famous reality show, Operación Triunfo, the aim was to equate the search for musical talent in this competition with the search for scientific and business talent. There is enormous talent in music, and those dedicated to it enjoy great visibility, thanks, for example, to programs like this one, which seeks to find the best voice in the country. But among many other talents, there is also that of science, research, and business creation. Areas that, despite their impact on society, rarely receive the same attention, “Because we all know that Spain hasn’t won Eurovision for years, but it’s been even longer since we won a Nobel Prize in science. At the Rei Jaume I Prizes, we work not only to recognize and reward those who excel in science and business, but also to give them the visibility they deserve,” Javier Quesada noted.

Events on June 2 and 3
As every year, a full program of events has been prepared, beginning on the morning of June 2 with visits by the Nobel Laureates to various research centers and universities in Castellón, Valencia, and Alicante, as well as to the Maria Carbonell High School in Benetússer.
In the afternoon, there will be lunch with students and doctoral students, where the young people will be able to share a table with some of their leading figures. And in the evening, there will be discussions with the Nobel Laureates. Dinner will be hosted by Valencia City Council, and the Príncipe Felipe Museum has been specially chosen to commemorate its 25th anniversary.
The following day, June 3, the program will remain unchanged from previous years. The day will begin at the Captaincy General, the former Convent of Santo Domingo, with the reading of the Jury’s “Declaration.” The juries will then meet to decide who will be the seven laureates of the 37th edition. Afterwards, the winners will be announced at the Palau de la Generalitat at around 1:30 p.m.