Don Bosco National Prize

The Salesian Professional School of "Nuestra Señora del Pilar" of Zaragoza offers annually the Don Bosco National Award for innovations and research in techonology. .

From 2008 and following a signed agreement with the University of Zaragoza, several joint activities have been proposed to promote closer links between the two organisations. In particular, in recent awards, the Jury for the prize has included a panel formed specifically of academic staff from the Faculty of Sciences who are specialised in the areas of work presented for each category of the prize.

More information is available from the official web page of the prize at: http://www.salesianos.edu/zar/PDB/index.html

23rd Don Bosco Award (2010)

• The 23rd awards ceremony for the Don Bosco National Prize took place on Thursday 25th February 2010.

22nd Don Bosco Award (2009)

• The 22nd awards ceremony for the Don Bosco National Prize took place on Wednesday 4th March 2009. This year there were many entries, from Spain and from schools in other countries. General institutional support has also increased.
  The webpage Ecclesia on 6th March 2009 and the supplement "I+DEAR" of the newspaper El Periódico on 5th of March 2009 recorded this news. In the news review of the University of Zaragoza on 6th March ("Idear" category), there is a link to the El Periódico article.
• As an innovation for this year´s award and to promote a greater awareness of the award, an exhibition was staged from 9th to 11th March 2009 to present a selection of the works submitted, including models. The exhibition was an excellent opportunity to see the types of innovations which students at technical, middle and high schools were developing.
  The exhibition took place in the Hall and Meetings Room of Building D of the Faculty.