Promoting Culture and Art
Grupo PRISA plays a very important role of recognition, promotion and encouragement in the areas of literary creation, the media, film and music. It carries out this role through three of the most prestigious awards presented in Spain: the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards, Alfaguara Novel Award and Ondas Awards, with a long history in Spanish radio.
Ortega y Gasset Awards
The Ortega y Gasset awards, created in 1984 by the newspaper EL PAÍS,
is one of the most important award to spanish press worldwide.
Ondas Awards
The Ondas Awards, created in 1953, are the first television and radio awards established in Spain, were created by Radio Barcelona (Cadena SER).
Alfaguara Awards of Novel
The Alfaguara Prize for Novels was first given in 1998. It is one of the most underlining literary awards to an unknown work in Spanish.
Foundation UAM / El PaísThe Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/EL PAIS School of Journalism is the result of a cooperation agreement between Grupo PRISA and the Autonomous University of Madrid in order to train graduates of any university career who wish to become journalists.
Foundation SantillanaSantillana Foundation, created in 1979 on an initiative of the Chairman of Grupo PRISA, Jesús de Polanco, is a private foundation aiming to foster teaching and cultural promotion, with a particular interest in foste-ring the cooperation and strengthening of the cultural bonds between Spain and Latin America.
