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Natividad Navalón and Gabriel Songel, Academic and Research Staff at the Universitat Politècnica, have received an award at the 5th PRECREA Awards, held at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH).

These awards are given by Valencian public universities to personalities who have stood out for their contributions to Valencian cultural and artistic life.

Along with Gabriel Songel and Natividad Navalón, Sol Picó, Carles Santos Award for the Performing Arts; Teresa Broseta, Isabel-Clara Simó Award for Literary Creation and Jacaranda, Matilde Salvador Award for Music have also been awarded.

Outstanding careers

The professor and researcher Gabriel Songel has been honoured with the José Mª Yturralde Award for Design and Technological Creativity. For the professor, receiving this award is 'recognition for a whole career as a scholar, researcher and professional dedicated to design', among whose milestones he highlights the contribution to the implementation of industrial design engineering in Spain, the design and marketing of more than 140 products on the market and six stages of a research career.

Songel wanted to express his gratitude 'to the people who have made it possible: my family, the companies that have placed their trust in me and my university colleagues'.
Professor Natividad Navalón, a full scholar of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, has won the Juana Francés Prize for Plastic and Visual Arts. 'I am proud of this award because it recognises my career as a researcher and creator in the plastic and visual arts. But, above all, it gives meaning to my work as a researcher, which is to generate art and thought and to transmit it through the university'.

'We have worked for more than 20 years to convince the academic world of the research work in all these fields, vindicating our work as researchers, always with the support of our universities, the Valencian universities, which have been a model of reference at a national level in this vindication'.

Celebration in Altea

The 5th PRECREA Awards ceremony took place on Friday, 21st February, at the Arts Research Centre in the new Mascarat building of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Altea (Miguel Hernández University).

The event was hosted by the Rector of the UMH, Juan José Ruiz Martínez. It was attended by representatives of the Valencian government, as well as by the people in charge of the Vice-Rectorates for Culture of the five organising universities.