The Government of Catalonia gives this award, institutionalized in 1982, to honour those people who made significant contributions to science and technology in Catalonia.
The project will involve the construction of two new buildings: one that will house the new Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and research areas in economics and business, and the extension of the Barcelona Science Park.
The University of Barcelona is leading the VIGEOCULT project, funded with NextGeneration funds from the European Union, which will create a natural and open museum with virtual and augmented reality technologies to reconstruct the geological, palaeontological and cultural heritage of the Barcelona Pyrenees.