BBVA, Panda Security and Saft win the Cinco Dias Awards for Business Innovation 2010

BBVA, Panda Security and Saft Baterías S.L. have won this year's Cinco Dias Awards for Business Innovation, which honor the most innovative initiatives across three categories:

• The Award for the Most Innovative Business Initiative in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility went to BBVA for a business education project in Spain and Latin America.
  
• The Award for the Most Innovative Business Initiative in the field of New Technologies went to Panda Security for its project on protecting collective intelligence and cloud-based IT security.
  
• The Award for the Most Innovative Business Initiative at a University Level was given to Saft Baterías SL. for the project it developed in conjunction with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya aimed at creating a series of energy accumulation products.

The winners of the awards, now in their third year and sponsored by PRISA's business and finance daily Cinco Dias, were announced on October 14 in Madrid. Around 100 projects competed for the prestigious awards.

The jury, presided over by Emilio Ontiveros, founder and President of Analistas Financieros Internacionales, included Baldomero Falcones, President of FCC; Javier Nadal, Executive Vice-president of the Fundación Telefónica; José Cañas, founding partner of Teams; Joaquín Estefanía, Director of the UAM/El País Journalism School and Jorge Rivera, Editor-in-Chief of Cinco Días.

The prizes, launched two years ago on the occasion of the newspaper's 30th anniversary, are sponsored by La Caixa and Repsol.

Prizewinners will receive a commemorative sculpture by Cristina Iglesias at the ceremony to be held on November 4 at Madrid's Circulo de Bellas Artes.