Submission period now open for the 4th Blasco Garzón Award

The Sevilla FC Chair at the Pablo de Olavide University recognizes the excellence of the best Final Degree and Master’s Thesis projects.

The ‘Sevilla FC Chair: University, Business, and Sport’ at Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) has opened the submission period for the fourth edition of the Manuel Blasco Garzón Award. This award recognizes the excellence of the best Final Degree and Master’s Thesis projects submitted by students enrolled at UPO, both in official degree programs and continuous education courses. With this call, the aim is to promote study, initiation into research, and the transfer of knowledge in various fields of knowledge.

The competition rules and the procedure for submitting applications can be accessed via email at [email protected]. The deadline for submission is February 16, and the award will be decided in the second half of March. So far, the work of twelve graduate students has been recognized, with the Faculty of Sports Sciences and the Faculty of Experimental Sciences having won all the awards, covering topics such as The Influence of the Peak of Maximum Maturation Speed and Relative Age in School Age, Spike-Timing Dependent LDT in the C4-C2/3 Synapse of the Mouse Somatosensory Cortex, and Entrepreneurship Before the Age of Thirty: Success Stories, among others.

This award pays tribute to the memory of Manuel Blasco Garzón, former president of Sevilla FC, under whose tenure the club won two Andalusian Cups, hired the first doctor in the club’s history, organized the first training camps, and secured the Reina Victoria Stadium as the venue for the Spanish Cup final between FC Barcelona and Club Arenas de Getxo. He also welcomed into his board a young man destined to write the greatest pages in the club’s history: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán. Blasco Garzón was also an omnipresent figure in Seville’s social and cultural life at the time, serving as president of the Ateneo de Sevilla and promoting projects aimed at raising the cultural level of neighborhoods and contributing to the education of citizens, helping in the fight against illiteracy.