2026 Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Closed
Deadline: -
Funding body:
BBVA Foundation
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, whose nineteenth edition is now being announced, recognise and incentivise research and cultural creation of excellence, especially contributions of exceptional impact due to their originality and significance. The name of these awards is intended to denote both research work capable of significantly expanding the scope of knowledge—pushing forward the frontier of what is known—and the overlap and interaction between different disciplinary areas and the emergence of new fields. The endowment is €400,000, together with a diploma and an artistic symbol, in each category.
The Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognise fundamental advances, whether disciplinary or interdisciplinary, across a broad domain of the 21st-century map of knowledge. The areas covered by this family of awards are as follows:
- Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)
- Biology and Biomedicine
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Climate Change and Environmental Sciences
- Economics, Finance and Business Management
- Humanities
- Social Sciences
- Music and Opera
The endowment is €400,000, together with a diploma and an artistic symbol, in each category.
The application period will remain open until 16:00 on 30 June 2026