As brings together Spanish Olympic medalists to mark
the 25th anniversary of the Olympic Games in Barcelona
in 1992 and celebrate 50 years of the sports newspaper.
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El País and Google launch VR-Infographics, an innovative
project in the field of infographics and virtual reality
that aims to offer support to high-quality journalism via
the use of technology.
• The Association of Spanish Language Academies
(ASALE) and Santillana sign a contract for the production,
publishing and distribution of the schools dictio
nary Diccionario escolar panhispánico.
El País Retina hosts the forum Digital Future. Policies
and strategies to meet to the challenges of the new
environment , in which the Minister of Energy, Tourism
and the Digital Agenda, Alvaro Nadal, and former Prime
Minister Felipe González participated.
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JULY
• In Chile, Santillana welcomes the publisher Norma with
the seminar ‘Readers for the future’. Authors such as
Ana Maria Machado, Maria Fernanda Heredia, Keiko
Kasza, among others, reflected on the convergence of
traditional and new formats in children’s literature.
• Seville hosts the presentation of the Radiolé Awards
2017, with which the leading radio station for Spanish
popular music pays tribute to the careers, work and
popularity of the most important acts and performers
on the Spanish music scene.
• The new ‘Digital Educators’ Program’, launched by
Santillana in Spain to coincide with the new school
year, seeks to help teachers acquire the new and necessary
methodological and technological skills for the
process of digitizing the classroom.
SEPTEMBER
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Cinco Días celebrates the tenth edition of its awards for business
innovation, which seek to honor the most innovative
business initiatives in CSR, the most innovative business project
in the field of new technologies, and the most innovative
entrepreneurial endeavor linked to a University.
• U2, Alejandro Sanz, Ed Sheeran and Despacito triumph at the
LOS40 Music Awards, the year’s major music event. Broadcast
to 15 countries, the event has cemented its reputation
and prestige as most important music prizes in Spanish.
El País Retina hosts Retina LTD, the largest event to bring
together leaders of digital transformation, at Madrid’s Reina
Sofia Museum.
• In Brazil, the publisher Editora Moderna takes home several
Jabuti awards, the country’s most important literary award.
• The Santillana Foundation and the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual
Library Foundation join forces to host, in Alcalá de Henares,
the Fourth Ibero-American Festival of Children’s and Young
Adult Literature, whose aim is to promote this vibrant sector.
NOVEMBER
AUGUST
• Launch, in Colombia, of the book ‘Pedagogy, Language
and Democracy’, written by Santillana author Fabio Jurado,
jointly with the Latin American Network for Transforming
Language Teacher Training.
El País ceases publishing personal contact ads. The
decision was based on women’s rights and took into
account the views of readers.
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As Arabia is launched.This new edition of the world’s
leading sports newspaper will now reach 25 Arabic
speaking countries across the Middle East and
North Africa.
• Cadena SER kicks off the new sports season by reinforcing
its commitment to new ways of narrating and
understanding sport. Dani Garrido y Manu Carreño are
once again the stars of radio sports journalism in Spain
with their shows Carrusel Deportivo and El Larguero.
OCTOBER
• In Chile, the Lectópolis seminar – organized by Santillana
in cooperation with the Telefonica Foundation
and the Andrés Bello National University – explored
major challenges such as ways of promoting reading
comprehension and improving access to information
among children and young people.
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Meristation, PRISA’s digital publication specializing in
video games, and which is integrated into As, celebrates
its twentieth birthday.
• Santillana Peru celebrated the 16th School Principals’
Convention, under the title “Innovate to Educate”.
This academic event brings together the heads
of leading educational institutions in Peru.
• Publishing house Taurus publishes the stylebook
for radio journalism on behalf of Cadena SER. Titled
“En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral”, the
stylebook seeks to be the most complete and definitive
guide for journalists and the general public on
how they should behave in front of a microphone.
DECEMBER
• Santillana’s Global Learning Technology area brings together
technology service providers and international experts
to share experiences on educational technology in a
new edition of the Annual Workshop Santillana Technology
Network.
• The King and Queen of Spain preside over the gala for the
50th anniversary of the newspaper As, during which the
very Spanish sporting greats, such as Rafael Nadal and Mireia
Belmonte, and the British athlete Sebastian Coe were
honored.
• Gala ceremony for the 64th Ondas Awards at FIBES (Congress
and Exhibitions Center of Seville), presented by Toni
Garrido and Cristina Boscá.
• PRISA teams up with the FAO and the Global Compact in
Madrid for the first International Forum on Human Rights:
From the Global to the Local.
“El País with Your Future” holds its third edition in Madrid –
with hundreds of students embracing a new and changing
employment landscape.
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