The 5 journalists of the EFE Science Section and the mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón have been acknowledged on Wednesday with the BBVA CSIC-Foundation Awards. The company’s staff acquired the award within the class of journalists specialised in scientific communication, whereas the professor and tv presenter did so within the one geared toward researchers who’ve contributed to the dissemination of data to society.
The jury has highlighted the professionals of EFE – notem Gómez, Elena Camacho, Caty Arévalo, Carmen Rodríguez and Raúl Casado – for “translating knowledge based on scientific evidence” for many years. ” He has also stressed that journalists perform that task “from the anonymity of a public service information company with an amazing geographical scope all through the Spanish -speaking media community.” Thus, they have added, Efe Science manages to disseminate “quality information that not only reaches an audience of millions of people through large media, but allows local or regional press to move scientific information that would otherwise go unnoticed”.
For its part, the Evaluation Committee has assured that Sáenz de Cabezón – owner of the Department of Mathematics and Computing at the University of La Rioja and presenter since 2019 of the program Órbita’s time In La2 de Televisión Spanish – he has managed to create “a reference house for scientific communication.” The disseminator, who works on both television and social networks, has demonstrated “nice versatility and skill to be current in numerous codecs,” said the jury. The “personal type” of Sáenz de Cabezón was decorated by combining “efficiently the rigor of scientific disciplines with an informal character.”
In addition, young scientific communicators Fermín Grodira and Elisa Ramírez have received the two CSIC-Foundation BBVA aid, this will allow them to carry out stays in institutes, laboratories and CSIC centers to know the research processes from within.
The awards are geared up with 40,000 euros for journalists and 35,000 for assist, and are a part of the scientific communication impulse program created in 2021 by the CSIC and the BBVA Foundation.
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