Cuenca is a city and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. It is the capital of the province of Cuenca.
The Spanish National Research Council is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and technological progress, and it is prepared to collaborate with Spanish and foreign entities in order to achieve this aim.
The Instituto Carlos III-Juan March (IC3JM), formerly the Advanced Center for Social Science Studies (CEACS), is a research and postgraduate institute for the social sciences. It is based at the Getafe campus of Carlos III University in the south of the Madrid metropolitan area. It receives funding from both the university and the Fundación Juan March.
José María Maravall Herrero is a Spanish academic and a politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca is a Spanish social scientist based at the Charles III University of Madrid. He has been the director of the Instituto Carlos III-Juan March since its creation in 2013 from CEACS.
Don Carlos María Alfonso Marcelo de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma, Infante of Spain, Duke of Calabria was, at his death, the last male infante of Spain during the reigns of his cousins King Juan Carlos I and King Felipe VI.
The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, located on the Calle de Alcalá in the centre of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal academies in the Instituto de España.
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo Torrontegui, also known as Fernando M. Zóbel, was a Spanish Filipino painter, businessman, art collector and museum founder.
Carlos Martínez Alonso, was born in Villasimpliz, in the province of León, on January 9, 1950. In 1974 he obtained a chemistry degree from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Four years later, in 1978, he obtained a Ph.D. in immunology by the same university. He was appointed President of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) from 2004 to 2008, and Secretary of State for Research in the Ministry of Science and Innovation from early 2008 to December 2009.
The Carlos de Amberes Foundation is a private non-profit institution created in 1594 to house the poor and the pilgrims who, arriving from the former Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands were travelling to the Court in Madrid. Nowadays, it promotes programs, activities, and publications in the humanistic and scientific areas, as well as exhibitions, concerts, conferences, and seminars. Its main lines of action are focused on the Modern History of Europe, especially that of Spain and the Benelux, and the reflection on the construction of Europe.
The Museo de Arte Abstracto Español is a museum in Cuenca, Spain established in 1966. It has a collection of some 129 paintings, mainly by 1950s and 1960s Spanish artists.
The Madrilenian Health Service is the body responsible for the system of public health services in the Community of Madrid. The SERMAS was created in 2001, as the functions and services provided by the Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INSALUD) in the region were transferred to it.
The National Prize for Applied and Technological Sciences was created in 1992 as one of the replacements for the National Prize for Sciences under Law 19169. The other two prizes in this same area are for Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences.
Elbio Raúl Lozza was an Argentine painter, draughtsman, designer, journalist, and theorist who was part of the concrete art movement. He was part of the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención. He was the founder of the Perceptivist group. He was granted the Platinum Konex Award in Visual Arts from Argentina in 1992.
María del Carmen Laffón de la Escosura was a Spanish figurative painter and sculptor. She was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando from 1998 until her death, and received numerous awards and honours, such as the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise in 2017.
The Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies is a think tank based in Madrid, Spain.
The Faculty of Social Sciences, commonly and informally known as Sociales, is the social sciences faculty of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest university in Argentina. It was founded in 1988, and offers degrees on social work, sociology, labor relations, communication and political science, in addition to a number of post-graduate degrees.
Carlos León Escudero is a Spanish artist with a long trajectory, associated with abstraction. His work displays a landscape of imagination where the subject takes a backseat to the pictorial exploration of color, texture, and surface. A multidisciplinary artist, he adds to his pictorial production a vast array of installations, sculptural pieces, and photographs. In 2022, he was awarded the Gold Medal of Fine Arts Merit by the Ministry of Culture of Spain.
