The IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium was one of the ten winners of this year’s XX edition of the Plaza de España Awards granted by the Spanish Government Delegation in Andalusia to organisations, institutions and individuals from the Andalusian community who have stood out in different social, cultural, sporting or scientific fields for the fulfilment, defence and dissemination of the democratic values contained in the Spanish Constitution, which this year commemorates its XLVI anniversary.

In a ceremony presided over by the delegate of the Spanish Government in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, at the Cajasol Foundation in Seville, the sub-delegate of the Government in Granada, José Antonio Montilla, presented the award to the deputy director of the IFMIF-Dones Consortium, Moisés Weber.

Other award winners include the indie rock band Supersubmarina, the footballer and captain of Sevilla FC, Jesús Navas, the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, the Bicentenary of ‘Los Coloraos’ of Almería, the Red Cross in Cádiz, the donation and transplant programme of the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba, and Adelaida de la Calle, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Málaga.

In order to pay tribute to the Constitution, the Government Delegation in Andalusia decided to establish the ‘Plaza de España Awards’ in 2005, which symbolise, according to the creation agreement, ‘freedom, justice, equality and pluralism in its maximum expression, those who, by selflessly fulfilling, defending and disseminating the values and principles enshrined in the Magna Carta, are a point of reference for all Spaniards and a source of pride for Andalusians’.