Communication and Humanities 2006: National Geographic Society
"(...) the National Geographic Society has played a crucial role throughout its history in exploring and discovering the Earth and in disseminating scientific advancement relating to Mankind’s historic, geographic and artistic heritage. Its publications and audiovisual productions are received by over three hundred million people on all five continents."
"(...) the National Geographic Society has played a crucial role throughout its history in exploring and discovering the Earth and in disseminating scientific advancement relating to Mankind’s historic, geographic and artistic heritage. Its publications and audiovisual productions are received by over three hundred million people on all five continents."
Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Social Sciences 2006: Mary Robinson
"(...) dedicated to the our culture’s most noble values, has been devoting her intense life to the struggle to overcome the obstacles that prevent many from exercising effectively their human rights, to the attainment of balanced international relations, and to the consolidation of humanist principles in our era’s globalized world, by offering her non-conformist, brave and far-reaching voice to those who cannot speak for themselves or can barely be heard".
Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Arts 2006: Pedro Almodovar
"(...)for the ingenuity and sincerity of his films and the zest and vivacity of his screenplays, but particularly, for depicting his and our common roots as part of a global society that is on the verge of a nervous breakdown as it struggles to assimilate the turn of the century".
Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Arts
Letters 2006: Paul Auster
"(…) for the transformation in literature that he has wrought by blending the best of American and European traditions, for the innovation he has brought to narrative style in the cinema, and for integrating a number of devices used by the cinema into literature. Auster has managed to appeal to young readers by exploring new perspectives of reality and by providing an aesthetically pleasing, invaluable account of the problems faced by the individual and by social groups in our times".
Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters
Scientific and Technical Research 2006: Juan Ignacio Cirac
"(...)Professor Cirac is an international figurehead which has come up with some of the most brilliant and original ideas, both for quantum computing and in quantum theory of light and atomic physics.His contribution are being decisive in the development of completely secure communications, thanks to quantum ciphering methods, and in the building of computers that will be able to determine in seconds, calculations that exceed the current limits of supercomputers".Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
International Cooperation 2006: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
"The Jury appreciates (...) for exemplifying generosity and philanthropy in the face of the ills that ravage the world. The generosity of Bill and Melinda Gates is an invaluable contribution to international cooperation and an ethical benchmark to stir the consciences of all who have the responsibility and the means to help alleviate inequalities and the deprivation of so many millions of people".
Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
Concord 2006: UNICEF
"(…)in recognition of its generous effort, sixty years of child advocacy, and especially, its most recent battle: to put an end to ignorance, poverty and disease in the African continent".
Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Concord
Sports 2006: Spain´s National Basket Team 2006
"(...)"The important triumph at the World Championship in Japan, the most brilliant achievement in the history of Spanish basketball, has also served as an example in overcoming difficulties, team spirit, candour and commitment to sports ethics.This extraordinary generation of players, led by Pau Gasol and coached by José Vicente “Pepu” Hernandez, has conveyed to the world, and especially to the young, a renewed thrill in the fostering and nurturing of sports"".
Minutes of the Jury for the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
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