Because, above all, the activities carried out on these two days are a tribute to knowledge itself, to the value of scientific research and artistic creation. In the words of Carlos Torres Vila , president of the BBVA Foundation, “the best compass we have to understand the world” and “to make better decisions, both individually and collectively”.
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According to Eloisa del Pino, president of the Superior Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the Frontiers Knowledge Awards, created in 2008, “have always understood the complexity of our world as an object of study, and their idea is that only from the diversity of scientific disciplines can we seek to know the extraordinary universe in which we live”.
Carlos Torres Vila and Eloisa del Pino presided over the awards ceremony, which was the centerpiece of a program that included on Wednesday a concert by the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, which performed two compositions by George Benjamin , this year’s winner in the category of Music and Music. Opera, as well as works by Richard Wagner and Igor Stravinsky.
