The Institute of Studies and Development of Galicia (IDEGA) and the Council Economómico and Social Galicia (CES) delivered this Wednesday in the St. Jerome in the TWELFTH century Research Awards in the Economy of Galicia Valentín Paz Andrade on the modalities of scientific paper and phd thesis, where he decreed a ex-aequo. The ceremony was chaired by the rector Antonio López, the director of the IDEGA, Rubén C. Lois, and the president of CES, Manuel Pérez.
The rector put in value the quality of the winning works and was pleased by the increase of the nominations, which causes that the USC “to fulfill two missions” each year: “Keep alive the figure of Valentín Paz Andrade and distinguish the research of particular value”. In turn, Rubén C. Lois stressed the importance of “creating spaces of reflection between the civil society” and to draw up papers that addressed the mapping for the territorial planning in Galicia; the distribution of income for the comparison between different regions; and the analysis of something so crucial to the galician economy as the fishing.
In the embodiment of papers published in scientific journals or publishers recognized, the jury awarded the prize to the article Travel-time accessibility and adaptive spatial planning solutions for the healthcare system of which they are authors José Balsa-Barreiro, Sérgio F. A. Batista, Gaby J. Hannoun and Mónica Menéndez, and which is published in the journal npj Health Systems, 2 (2025). The jury highlighted the academic rigour, the originality of his approach and the interest of the future lines of research that opens.
In the second category, relative to the doctoral theses published in any university, the jury resolved an ex–aequo to the theses also The relationship between the distribution of functional and personal income. Methodological proposal and application to Spain and Galicia in the period 2007-2021, performed by José Manuel Amoedo Meijide, and Fishing and business in Galicia, spain. Of Affection the Ribadeo between the Cadastre of Ensenada and the desestanco of salt, conducted by José Maria Leal Vault.
The survey conducted by José Manuel Amoedo Meijide, the jury stressed his character a pioneer in the research of the distribution of personal income in Galicia, of “great importance” to the best allocation of resources and the achievement of quotas higher equity in the galician society. Respect to the thesis prepared by José María Leal Vault, the jury made the “use of critical and exhaustive of the sources available to modify in a significant way the interpretation of a period of the history of fisheries and industrial Galicia very important to understand the origin and evolution of the reality of the socio-economic situation of the country”.
The jury
The jury in this TWELFTH edition has been composed by the rector of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Antonio López, who presided; the president of the Economic and Social Council of Galicia, Manuel Pérez; the secretary of the IDEGA, Manuel Fernández Ever, who served as secretary of the jury; the member of the Scientific Council of the IDEGA Melchor Fernández Fernández; the secretary general of the Economic and Social Council of Galicia, Manuel Martínez Varela; the dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, John R. Doldán García; the professor emeritus of the University of a Coruña Fernando González Laxe; and the professor of the University of Vigo Xosé Henry Vazquez Vicente.
