The award aims to encourage the creation and dissemination of works that, with an understandable language, make available to the general public, and the pre-university students in particular, scientific and technological advances, and also the dissemination of various branches of knowledge. The award-winning book will be co-published by Edicions Bromera and the University of Valencia Publishing Service, in the Catalan version, within the collection “Sense Fronteres”.

The essays of popular dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge can be written in Catalan, Spanish, English or French and must have a length between 250,000 and 300,000 characters, including spaces. Additional materials in the text must be original, free of rights or contain the required reproduction license. People who have already been awarded in previous editions cannot participate in this call and the texts of undergraduate degree and Master’s degree final projects, doctoral theses and scientific articles are excluded.

To participate, the works will preferably be submitted through the virtual office of the University of Valencia, or can also be handed in paper in the institution Registry Office. They must be original and unpublished and can also be presented under a pseudonym.

The jury of the 2020 edition is formed by María Dolores Real, Vice-Rector of Innovation and Transfer of the University of Valencia and who will preside; Carolina Moreno, director of the “Sense Fronteres” collection; Pere Puigdomènech, the winner in the 25^th edition of this award; M. Teresa Ferrer, researcher in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia and Ismael Mingarro, researcher in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the same institution. For the assessment of the works, the jury will consider the scientific interest and coherence of each work, its creativity and originality, the clarity and the structure of the text, as well as the correct use of the grammar and spelling rules.

The prize will be awarded at the same time as the other Ciutat d’Alzira awards, during a literary awards dinner. In it, the winners, in addition to the prize in cash, will receive the trophy designed by Manuel Boix, symbol of the Ciutat d’Alzira Literary Awards.

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