The jury of Princess of Asturias Award of International Cooperation 2024 has decided that the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) is the recipient this year of this title, which is intended to recognize “the work, individual or collective, with another or others, of development and promotion of public health, the universality of education, the protection and defense of the environment and the economic, cultural and social advancement of the people.” This entity, with its headquarters in Madrid, develops different projects in education, science, culture, language and human rights.

In the first area, it serves a average of 450,000 students and trains 40,000 teachers betting on digital transformation and improving the quality of education. Formed by twenty-three countries (Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic , Uruguay and Venezuela), the entity collaborates in an average of 200 investigations annually. Currently, the OEI it’s a observer member associated with the General Assembly of the UN. He is also a member of the senior management committee of the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) representing Ibero-America at UNESCO.

The one from Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2024 It is the sixth name that rings within these awards. The last one was that of the Romanian poetess Ana BlandianaPrincess of Asturias Award for Letters 2024. Previously, the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Scienceswhich fell to the former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff. They all took home a sculpture by Joan Miró, a diploma, a badge and a cash prize of 50,000 euros. However, they do not receive the sculpture immediately but rather the organization sends it to their homes. This object will also have already arrived at the home of Joan Manuel Serrat, Marjane Satrapi and Carolina Marin.

The winners of recent years

Since 1981 and until now, the award has gone to proper names, projects and associations. Last year, without going any further, she ended up in the Medicines for Neglected Diseases Initiative. This award indirectly rewarded other entities since this NGO was created in 2003 by seven public and private institutions: Doctors Without Borders, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) of Brazil, the Ministry of Health of Malaysia, the Pasteur Institute (France) and the Special Program for Research and Training in Neglected Diseases of the World Health Organization.

A year earlier, however, the recognition went to the professional sailor Ellen MacArthur. For many reasons. On the one hand, due to the creation of the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trustwhich helps young cancer patients overcome their problems through navigation, and by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a non-profit organization that aims to change the production and consumption habits of the global economy and accelerate the transition towards the so-called circular economy.

Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation

  • 2023: Medicines for Neglected Diseases Initiative
  • 2022: Ellen MacArthur
  • 2021: CAMFED – Campaign for Female Education
  • 2020: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • 2019: Salman Khan and the Khan Academy
  • 2018: Amref Health Africa
  • 2017: Hispanic Society of America
  • 2016: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement
  • 2015:Wikipedia
  • 2014: Fulbright Program
  • 2013: Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
  • 2012: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  • 2011:Bill Drayton
  • 2010: The Transplantation Society and the National Transplant Organization (Spain)
  • 2009: Martin Cooper and Raymond Samuel Tomlinson
  • 2008: Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania, Malaria Research and Training Center and Kintampo Health Research Center
  • 2007: Al Gore
  • 2006: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • 2005: Simone Veil
  • 2004: Erasmus program of the European Union
  • 2003: Lula da Silva
  • 2002: Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR)
  • 2001: International Space Station
  • 2000: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  • 1999: Pedro Duque, John Glenn, Chiaki Mukai and Valeri Poliakov
  • 1998: Emma Bonino, Olayinka Koso-Thomas, Graça Machel, Fatiha Boudiaf, Rigoberta Menchú, Fatana Ishaq Gailani and Somaly Mam
  • 1997: The Government of Guatemala and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit
  • nineteen ninety six: Helmut Kohl
  • nineteen ninety five: Mário Soares
  • 1994: Isaac Rabin and Yasser Arafat
  • 1993: UN Blue Helmets stationed in the former Yugoslavia
  • 1992: Frederick W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
  • 1991: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • 1990: Hans Dietrich Genscher
  • 1989: Jacques Delors and Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 1988: Oscar Arias
  • 1987: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
  • 1986: Universities of Salamanca and Coimbra
  • 1985: Raúl Alfonsin
  • 1984: Accounting Group
  • 1983: Belisario Betancur
  • 1982: Enrique V. Iglesias
  • 1981: José López Portillo