The jury of the Bioethics Prizes and Grants has announced the winners of this year's awards
Grants:
Mª del Carmen Gete-Alonso y Calera and Judith Solé Resina, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, for: "Las nuevas maternidades y paternidades, las ‘nuevas formas' de tener hijos y sus implicaciones éticas." ["New maternities and paternities: the ‘new ways' of having children and their ethical implications."]
Jordi Mundó Blanch of the University of Barcelona for "Pacientes agentes. Repensar la autonomía del paciente desde una perspectiva fiduciaria." ["Agent patients. Rethinking patient autonomy from a fiduciary perspective."]
Alberto Sandiumenge Camps of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital for: "Evaluación de la influencia de la implementación de programas de donación en asistolia controlada en los cuidados a final de la vida." ["Evaluating the influence of the implementation of donation programmes in controlled asystole in end of life care."]
César Palacios González of Oxford University for: "La Ética de las Técnicas de Remplazo Mitocondrial para Tratar la Infertilidad." ["The Ethics of Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques to Treat Infertility."]
To the team led by Maria F. Jiménez Herrera of Rovira i Virgili University for "Sensibilidad moral de estudiantes de enfermería de grado y posgrado; Traducción, validación y adaptación al castellano del ‘Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire de Lützen et al.' y validación del ‘Sensibilidad Moral en los Cuidados Enfermeros' de Campillo." ["Moral sensibility of undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students: Translation, validation and adaptation into Spanish of Lützen et al.'s ‘Moral Sensibility Questionnaire' and validation of ‘Moral Sensibility in Nursing Care' by Campillo."]
To the team led by Gonzalo Díaz Cobacho and Alberto Molina Pérez of the University of Granada for "Pluralismo y muerte: Desafíos éticos y actitudes de los profesionales en relación a la diversidad de criterios en la determinación de la muerte." ["Pluralism and death: ethical challenges and attitudes of professionals with respect to the diversity of criteria when determining death."]
Senior high school prizes:
First prize to "Medicina digna, muerte digna" ["Dignified Medicine, Dignified Death"] by Anna Carbó Bel, Instituto Dertosa, Tortosa.
Second prize to "El legado del Dr. Víctor Frankenstein" ["The legacy of Dr. Víctor Frankenstein"] by Diana Gallardo Pérez and Mar Trinidad Fernández of Instituto Salvador Espriu, Barcelona.
Third prize to "El maltrato animal" ["Mistreatment of animals"] by Paula Cama i Pou of Instituto de Celrà.
Audiovisual prize:
Documentary short, "Bailar la locura" ["Dancing madness"] by Marta Espar.
There were a total of 43 applications for grants, 12 high school prizes, and 116 audiovisual projects. The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation would like to thank all applications for their support, and looks forward to working with them in the future.
The awards will be presented on 21 October, at 19:00 at Casa de la Convalescència (Barcelona).
Partnership agreement to organize a season of lectures on bioethics.
The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation and Barcelona Friends of UNESCO have signed a partnership agreement to organize a season of lectures on bioethics. The lectures are part of the "Spaces for reflection" project, and will provide a forum to debate issues such as human reproduction, the handling of health information, loneliness, ageing and the end of life.
Barcelona Friends of UNESCO is a non-profit organization and was founded 59 years ago. It was the first UNESCO organization to be created in Spain. Its objectives include raising awareness of UNESCO's founding values, which are linked to culture, education and science.
Photo: Núria Terribas, Director of the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation, and Rosa Pujol, director of Friends of UNESCO.
Submission is now closed!
You have until 31 May to submit your projects. You can register online and submit projects via our website.
Registration for Ethics and science prize will be open until November 30.
Marian Barnes, sociologist and social policy expert, approaches the ethics of care from a perspective that transcends illness and economic hegemony. This publication includes two lectures give at the seminar on Ethics and the values of care, organized by the Official College of Nurses of Barcelona, in partnership with the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation.
The Foundation has taken part in a documentary about maternity, produced by Catalan channel TV3
The Foundation has taken part in a documentary about maternity, produced by Catalan channel TV3
The programme includes contributions from Victoria Camps, president of the Foundation, and also incorporates images and conclusions from the workshop, Thinking About Maternity, held in November.
The documentary, screened as part of TV3's Sense Ficció strand, explains that, at almost 31 years, the maternal age in Catalonia is one of the highest in the world. At the same time, Catalonia has one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe: just 1.3 births per woman, compared to a replacement rate of 2.1.
These trends have become more pronounced over recent decades, and are joined by a third statistic: for the first time since records began, one in four Catalan women will have no children. Sometimes this is out of choice, but often it is because they are unable to, even with assisted reproduction.
The Foundation ranks fifth in an evaluation of the leading Spanish foundations.
The report "Construir Confianza 2018" (building trust), compiled by Fundación Compromiso y Transparencia, puts the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation in fifth place in its ranking of the most transparent organizations in the family foundation category. This report evaluates the transparency and governance of Spanish foundations, based on the information published on their websites.
The foundation is in the fifth position. However, it is not included in the top rankings because it does not publish an auditor's report, which this study deems essential, although none of the circumstances specified by the legislation in this area would require the foundation to produce audited accounts.
Maria Blasco will bring her scientific experience to bear on the study and promotion of bioethics.
Agreement to work on joint projects and raise the profiles of both institutions.
The agreement will disseminate the Audiovisual Prize for a Bioethics Project and will promote screenings of films that address topics related to bioethics as part of this year's Gaudí Season.
Agreement to cooperate to support innovation in the social services sector.