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From January 30 until April 30, 2026

Open call for the 21st BBVA Foundation Biodiversity Awards

In the Information and Communication Technologies category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen for designing the cryptographic system that protects the security of electronic devices and digital connections worldwide

In the Basic Sciences category

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for their discovery of the “magic angle” enabling science to transform and control the behavior of new materials

Open call for the 19th edition

From January 20th until March 20th

Open call for the 2026 Leonardo Grants for Scientific Research and Cultural Creation

From January 1st until June 30th, 2026

Open call for the 19th edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

From December 30, 2025 until March 31, 2026

Open call for the BBVA Foundation's Prisms and Problems Program

Presentation ceremony of the BBVA Foundation’s environmental awards

The 20th BBVA Foundation Awards for Biodiversity Conservation celebrate and reaffirm the active commitment of multiple actors to preserving life on Earth

Awarded together with Joel Mokyr "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth"

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences goes to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, winners of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2020

For the development of metal-organic frameworks

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Omar Yaghi, winner of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2017

In Physics and Chemistry, Biology and Biomedicine, and Engineering

The Fundamentos Program supports 12 leading-edge scientific projects exploring core issues in three major knowledge areas

7th edition of the Biophilia Award in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences

The BBVA Foundation recognizes philosopher Thom van Dooren for his contributions to understanding and addressing species extinction from the perspective of the environmental humanities

Access to over 900 publications through the digital catalogue of the BBVA Foundation

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PortalClínic: reliable and proven health information

Visit the Hospital Clínic-Fundación BBVA website

From the Big Bang to the search for life in other worlds

‘Science of the Cosmos, Science in the Cosmos’

The BBVA Foundation presents the videos of 36 talks from its Astrophysics Lecture Series