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The Foundation 3M presents the XIV Edition of the Prizes to the Innovation

27/03/2012

27 March 2012

The Foundation 3M presents the XIV Edition of the Prizes to the Innovation to improve the life of the people whose central axis this year is The Water. Constituted in the year 2.000 the Foundation 3M works for favouring, support and promocionar the innovation and the investigation through the education and the investigation.

The water is an essential element for the life of the human being and however is a scarce resource in a lot of zones of the planet, by what is in hand of all improve his utilisation to avoid problems so much in the present as in the future. 2012 it is the year chosen by the UN to call the attention on the feeding and the regulation of the water, whose deficiency is generating big crisis in the world. Besides the European Green Week 2012 also versará on the water.

The Water is the central axis of the XIV Edition of the Prizes to the Innovation of the Foundation 3M.

To be able to participate in the XIV Edition of the Prizes to the “Innovation to improve the life of the people: The water”, all the groups of investigation and researchers that wish it will be able to present his works from the day 26 March and until 27 July. All the works will have to send to the steering of the Foundation 3M (C/ Juan Ignacio Luca of Tena, 19 – 25, 28027, Madrid).

In total will deliver three prizes, a First Prize of 14.000, and two Accésit of 3.000 each one. The works of investigation will be able to englobar in 5 thematic different, all they centred in the water:

- Water and Health

- Water and Foods

- Water and Climate

- Water and Power

- Water and Nature

The Prizes of the Foundation 3M, have already more than a decade and began to celebrate in Spain in the year 2.000. Initially they could present works so alone the researchers and students of the universities of Alcalá, Valencia, Valladolid, Saragossa and Autonomous of Madrid that act like Masters of Honour of the Foundation 3M, but from six years ago the Prizes of the Foundation 3M opened to all the universities of Spain, groups of investigation and institutions recognised like Public Organisms of Investigation.