SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION CRR 2008
Corporate Responsibility Report 2008
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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
THE BBVA GROUP’S FOUNDATIONS
BBVA FOUNDATION (SPAIN)
The accompanying tables show the basic indicators of activity for the BBVA Foundation, together with
information about this Foundation’s Fronteras del Conocimiento (Frontiers of Knowledge) Awards.
BBVA Foundation: basic indicators of activity
Number of collaborators
Number of research projects
Number of specialist meetings and seminars
Number of general lectures
Number of publications (including co-publications)
Number of people attending the different activities
Number of libraries receiving publications
Dissemination of published material (brochures, handbooks, etc.)
Number of user sessions on the website
Scope: Spain.
BBVA FOUNDATION FRONTERAS DEL CONOCIMIENTO (FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE) AWARDS
The BBVA Foundation has received support from the Spanish Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC),
the most important public research institution in Spain and one with international presence and outreach,
in assessing the candidates and forming the panels of judges for these awards, thus assuring that objectivity,
independence and excellence criteria prevail during the selection process.
At the end of January 2009 the winners for the various categories were published, each assigned
€400,000 in prize money. The overall endowment came to €3.2m, a sum second only to the Nobel Prizes.
The list of winners of the 2008 edition of the BBVA Foundation’s Fronteras del Conocimiento wards is
as follows:
BBVA Foundation Fronteras del Conocimiento (Frontiers of Knowledge) Awards 2008
Category Winner
Climate change
Development cooperation
Biomedicine
Arts
Information and communication technology
Economics, finance and business management
Ecology and conservation biology
Basic sciences (physics, chemistry, mathematics)
For further information on the awards and their winners, please go to: www.fbbva.es and http://rrc.bbva.com.
Wallace S. Broecker
2008
2007 2006
631 946 2,108
77 141 184
34 39 31
30 24 56
96 91 59
6,015 6,693 8,985
819 819 819
234,480 428,500 208,700
125,908 171,708 164,699
Laboratorio de Acción contra la Pobreza
"Abdul Latif Jameel" (J-PAL), del Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Joan Massagué i Solé
Steven Holl
Jacob Ziv
Jean Tirole
Thomas E. Lovejoy y Willian F. Laurance (ex aequo)
Peter Zoller e Ignacio Cirac (ex aequo)
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