The XXXVI edition of the Prismas Awards celebrated the dissemination of scientific culture, with the awards sponsored by the City Council of La Coruña through the Museos Científicos Coruñeses since 1988. The event took place on Saturday, November 18.

This year, initiatives are distinguished in six categories (video, new media, edited book, journalistic article, radio, singular project). In addition to the Special Jury Prism, which was awarded to the Planetario de Pamplona celebrating its 30th anniversary in recognition of its social impact, relevant initiatives, and sustained excellence over its extensive trajectory. Javier Armentia, director of the Planetario de Pamplona and professor in the Master of Scientific, Medical, and Environmental Communication at the UPF-Barcelona School of Management, accepted the award. Additionally, an honorary mention was awarded to Rogelio Sánchez Verdasco, from CSIC, for his tireless promotion of collective projects and innovative approaches in scientific communication.

The award for the best video work went to "Maa-Yiem, la extraordinaria historia de Jordi Sabater Pi", directed by Alfonso Par, for making visible one of the founders of primatology "through a magnificent narrative and exemplary use of cinematographic resources."

The website "Amautas: la aventura del conocimiento", presented by Javier Santaolalla Camino, Jorge Pérez Melián, and José Daniel Edelstein Glaubach, received the award in the new media category. Almudena Martín Castro received the award for the best-edited book for "La lira desafinada de Pitágoras" (Harper Collins Ibérica), for "narrating in an accessible, rigorous, and elegant way the complex link between science and music," as stated by the jury.

The journalistic article "La ciencia de estirar el tiempo", by Eugenia Angulo Alonso for Revista Alfa, was awarded the best in its category. The radio award went to "Desdibuixem les cançons de Marco Mezquida amb les il·lusions musicals", by Laura Farré Rozada, "for incorporating the perspective of mathematics into the cultural programming of a public radio station."

The singular project award was given to the work focused on Aragonese mathematics by María Andresa Casamayor, presented by Julio Bernues Pardo, Pedro Miana Sanz, and Raquel Villacampa Gutiérrez from the Instituto Universitario de Matemáticas y Aplicaciones de la Universidade de Zaragoza, for "recovering an unknown but highly relevant figure, the first woman in Spain who published a scientific text that has reached our days."

The jury of the XXXVI Prismas Awards was chaired by Elena Lázaro, coordinator of the UCCi at the University of Córdoba, and composed of Carolina Llorente, coordinator of the Science, Communication and Society Studies Centre at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Óscar Huertas, communication and scientific dissemination technician at CICA-UDC; Manuel Rey, communication manager at the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE); and Socorro Castro, associate professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Universidade da Coruña. Marcos Pérez Maldonado, head of service at the Museos Científicos Coruñeses, acted as secretary.