Cuban Academy of Sciences, 2024 awards

 Havana, Cuba, Jun 17 (ACN) Nearly 150 works from the country's most diverse socioeconomic sectors were submitted by groups of authors for the 2024 Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) Award.

Experts approved 96 of them: 66 % of the total. The largest number of these were from Havana (70), followed by Villa Clara (9), Santiago de Cuba (5), Mayabeque (4), Camagüey (2), and one each from Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, Las Tunas, and Holguin. Comparatively, there were 12 more than in 2023, with the Biomedical Sciences and Social and Humanistic Sciences sections standing out, with the largest number of submissions.

Nancy Pavon Fuentes, secretary of the ACC, also told the Cuban News Agency exclusively that for each case, 37 were awarded to the Biomedical Sciences sections, 32 to the Social and Humanities sections, 11 to the Natural and Exact Sciences sections, 10 to the Agricultural and Fisheries sections, and 6 to the Technical Sciences sections.
She described the representation of authors who promoted them from their grassroots, including institutions, centers, universities, botanical gardens, departments, faculties, hospitals, clinics, units, offices, and programs, as appreciable.

She recalled that the call for the ACC Annual National Award was held in May 2024, but they extended the reception of proposals until last May, with the express objective of encouraging the participation of the nation's academics and researchers. According to their statistics, from 2012 to 2023, 1,016 authors received their awards with their scientific materials.