The South-North Patronage of the General Foundation of the University of Valencia announces the fifth edition of the Awards Manuel Castillo, whose purpose is to promote academic, scientific and journalistic research in the field of cooperation, peace and human development . As a novelty, the 2013 edition includes a third mode which will reward the best monograph or unpublished research university work. Participation in the awards is open to the country since last year.
Manuel Catillo Awards, which are hold annualy and count on the collaboration of the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES) -and being one of its memebers, also a member of the jury- want to recognise and spread the most interesting results for the Spanish society, and specially Valencian society, about international cooperation, peace and their contribution to sustainable and human development of the towns around the world. Then, submitted papers will have a direct bearing on the cooperation to the development and contributing knowledge which reveal skills or denounce attaks on human rights and sustainable and human development.
This call has three types or categories: University Research Monograph Published, ie the edited work, consisting of a book, article or scientific section or contribution to a published book whose author is a lecturer in any Spanish university or member of (REEDES); Newspaper Report broadcast, to which any documentary journalism work in audiovisual format, digital, print, broadcast or published through mass media (press, radio, television or Internet) state level can opt; university Research and unpublished Monograph, a new form that will reward the best work of unpublished research, which may take the form of book or article, the author must be a member of a Spanish public university (student, PAS and PDI). With this third category, Manuel Castillo Awards 2013 are making room for the participation of students and researchers who started the last edition.
The award for published research monograph is endowed with 3,200 euros, the newspaper report, with 2,000, and unpublished research university work will be published in the collection La Nau Solidària, who coordinates the Patronage Sud-Nord in collaboration with the Publicacions Service of the University of Valencia.
Candidates for the award will have web access to the call and fill in the application form and then submit a copy of the work in the South-North Patronage, Cooperation of the University of Valencia, before next November 11, either email through premi.manuelcastillo @ uv.es, or by mail, contact the South-North Patronage of General Foundation of the University of Valencia, Amadeo de Saboya street, no. 4 floor 4. ª, 46010, Valencia, and indicating on the envelope 'Manuel Castillo Award 2013'. In the latter case it must send original documents, ie, copies of the book, magazine or newspaper which has published the work candidate.
Manuel Castillo (1870-1964)
Manuel Castillo's biography is that of a singular character, who lived 94 years and is ahead of his time. Born in 1870, in a difficult social situation, graduated in Arts, worked as a librarian in Salamanca and as a French teacher in Cáceres and Valencia.
His concern led him to promote newspaper publishers initiatives in Extremadura and Valencia, where he arrived in 1919. In addition to teaching, he continued his philanthropic activities and was a member of the Provincial Board of Child Welfare and Counselor of the Caja de Ahorros and Monte de Piedad de Valencia at the proposal of the Minister of Labour. Since both institutions, supported social work outstanding.
After the war, he went into exile with his wife and children to Toulouse and then to Mexico. He died in 1964 aged 94. With the restoration of democracy in Spain, his sons decided to return to his roots and settle in Valencia, the city where they had formed. Two of them decided that very substantial part of the family legacy was directed to the University of Valencia for solidarity and cooperation activities as a way to honor the memory of his father, and thus created the Patronage Sud-Nord, organ since 1991 has been working in the university development cooperation.
More information, calls, terms and conditions on the next link:
http://links.uv.es/gDV1R1o
Last update: 6 de september de 2013 11:34.
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