Conditions and online nominations

The BBVA Foundation announces the third edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge and Culture Awards, whose third edition is now open, seek to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of broad impact for their originality and theoretical significance. The name of the scheme is intended to encapsulate both research work that successfully enlarges the scope of our current knowledge – pushing forward the frontiers of the known world – and the meeting and overlap of different disciplinary areas.

The Frontiers Awards honor fundamental disciplinary or supradisciplinary advances in a series of basic, natural, social and technological sciences, as listed in the following paragraph. They also recognize creative activity of excellence in the classical music of our time. Finally, categories are reserved for two core concerns of early 21st century society, climate change and socioeconomic development cooperation, with awards going alternatively to outstanding research work or projects of a diverse nature that mark a significant advance in addressing these global challenges.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge and Culture Awards, to be given annually, take in the following prize categories:  

• Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)
• Biomedicine
• Ecology and Conservation Biology
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Economics, Finance and management
• Contemporary Music
• Climate Change
• Development Cooperation