Francesc Noy Award

Baccalaureate students of all secondary education institution around Catalonia can aim for the Award.

The research projects must be selected and presented by the center's management team where the contender student or students are studying. There can only be one research project that's a contender for the Award for each institution. The projects must be original and unpublished. Already awarded projects cannot be presented.

The research projects must be presented in .pdf format . See the registration form below. 

Projects with an interdisciplinary approach in the humanities field will be especially valued. Originality, creativity, academic rigour, as well as relevance, and appropriateness of the topic will be valued.

Every project will be presented in the following information will be listed: 

1. Pseudonym, name, surnames, address, and telephone number of the contender student/s.
2. Name and surnames of the director or baccalaureate coordinator of the institution, and those of the teacher that acted as tutor of the project.
3. Contact telephone number and e-mail addresses of the institution and the project tutor.
4. Name and address of the institution.
5. Approval of the insitution management board, including signatures and stamps.

IMPORTANT: The inclusion of the student's first and last name in the file name or within the work will involve the immediate disqualification of the work. Must put-there is the pseudonym.
Each center may present only one research paper for the Award.

The deadline for the presentation of the work will be on Sunday, March 8, 2026.

The Award jury will be composed of four teachers of the Humanities of the Pompeu Fabra University and will be presided by the Faculty's dean. The jury's decision is unappealable. The jury will solve any matter that is not stated in these bases.

Withholdings for personal income tax will be applicable to these amounts as per law correspond

The list of finalist will be published in the Faculty website (http://www.upf.edu/web/humanitats)

The award ceremony is scheduled to take place on Friday, April 24, 2026 in a face-to-face meeting at the UPF. Auditori Mercè Rodoreda

Participation in the contest implies acceptance of these rules.

Sponsor: La Central

• List of candidate projects 2025-26

History and Geography: Carmen Granell, Blanca Rodríguez Magem, Teresa Segura

Art: Almudena Blasco, Eduard Cairol, Nausikaä El Mecky

Literature and Lenguage: Luciana del Gizzo, Antonio Monegal, Xavier Sirés

Transversal: Daphne Bernués, Rosa Cerarols, Josep M. Micó

Thought: Jordi Mariné, Ricardo Marrero, Libera Pisano

The criteria followed by the Jury of the Francesc Noy Award of the Humanities Faculty of the Pompeu Fabra University when evaluating the Baccalaureate research project presented by the secondary education institutions around Catalonia have been:

1. Interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities field.
2. Originality and precision of the topic: quality and justification of the subject approach, as well as clarity of the objectives.
3. Quality and methodological correctness: justification and adaptation of the means and techniques used on the objectives.
4. Scientific rigour in the development of the project and depth of the argumentation.
5. Connection between the first approach (e.g. hypothesis, objectives, or research questions) and the results and final conclusions or speech.
6. Suitability of the used information sources, ability to extract significant data, and summarizing ability.
7. Correctness in the quotes proceeding from other sources and in the bibliographical references section.
8. Quality, and linguistic and speech correctness.
9. Quality and correctness in the formal presentation of the project.
10. Creativity and personal contribution.

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Francesc NOY FERRÉ (1928-1998)
 

Graduate and Doctor in Romance Philology, Francesc Noy specialized in medieval romance literatures, specifically in troubadour poetry, in which subjects he developed a long and vocational mastery, starting in the University of Barcelona, and afterwards in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In this area he published several scientific contribution, and the directed the recording of a troubadour music record.

He combined this university labor with practicing journalism, an activity he carried out fundamentally in La Vanguardia, where he was the drector of from 1983 to 1987, and afterwards he became director of editorial projects. He collaborated actively in the weekly publication Gaceta Ilustrada, and in the journal Historia y Vida.

Gifted with a great organization ability and civic and political vocation (understanding that as life in a polis), Francesc Noy participated in creating the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1968, as well as later being part of the establishment board of the Pompeu Fabra University. In the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he became the first director of the Education Sciences Institute. 

With the coming of the Provisional Generalitat of the Tarradellas government in 1977, Noy was called to hold the position of Education general director. His negotiation ability and his written expression skill were a key to get the order that introduced Catalan into teaching compulsorily.

A man with unhealthy nosiness, and a curiosity as insatiable as that of the Renaissence humanists, he was interested about the most diverse subjects, from music, to science, or gastronomy. Tireless conversationalist -often peripatetic, since he conversed while walking-, with numerous friends, a city traveler, he always believed that culture was to be enjoyed, not suffered; thus he trid to carry to his disciples and those around him the pleasure of reading great literature and discovering ways of never getting bored.

He was awarded with the Légion d'Honneur and the Creu de Sant Jordi.