Justino de Neve, the founder of the Hospital de los Venerables, played a decisive role in the canonization of St Ferdinand (1671), and this is undoubtedly the reason why the chapel is dedicated to the saint king. The Foundation cannot let such an important date pass unnoticed, and holds a religious ceremony each year on 30 May, which is the feast of St Ferdinand, the patron saint of Seville. At this year's ceremony, performances were given by the official organist of the Foundation and Seville Cathedral, José Enrique Ayarra Jarne, and the harpist Daniela Iolkicheva. Award ceremony for Focus-Abengoa prizes 2001 The awards presented by the Foundation are a means of acknowledging the merits of candidates of all ages and from different places in Spain and abroad, and the award ceremony is a fitting end each year to a painstaking process of silent, hard work, which is at the same time enormously rewarding and worthwhile for the prize-winners, Abengoa's employees, their families and the Foundation itself. At a ceremony held on 27 June in the church of the Hospital de los Venerables, the Focus-Abengoa Foundation awarded prizes for the successful completion of studies, research grants, results achieved in professional upgrading training programmes and courses, the best doctoral thesis on a subject related to Seville and the Focus-Abengoa 2001 Prize for Painting. The Foundation also awarded grants to employees of Abengoa and its subsidiaries and their direct relatives for the academic year 2000-2001. One thousand three hundred and ninety-nine grants for different levels of education were distributed among seven hundred and ninety families in Spain and Latin America, including grants for special-education students. The amount allocated by the Foundation for these awards totalled over one hundred and fifty thousand euro. By decision of the jury, which had previously shortlisted 24 works from 286 entries, the 36,000-euro first prize in the Focus-Abengoa 2001 painting competition was declared void. Special mentions went to Germán Bandera Pardo (Málaga, 1962) for his work Pedro Pablo en Oriente (Pedro Pablo in the East) and to Manuel Saro (Madrid, 1970) for his work Ciudadela II (Citadel II). The 3,000-euro prize for the best doctoral thesis on a subject related to Seville was awarded to Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio for his thesis La Casa de Arcos a fines de la Edad Media (The Casa de Arcos at the end of the Middle Ages). A total of 6,460.88 euro was awarded in the form of prizes for the successful completion of studies, results achieved in professional upgrading training programmes and courses and research grants. Prizes for the successful completion of studies were awarded to Juan Alberto González Vidal and Patricia Martínez Posada in the secondary-education category; to Laura Mezquita González and Manuel de Borja Torrejón in the Bachillerato category; to Jesús Miguel Bermúdez Salmerón and Aitziber Uzurriaga Iraolagoitia in the category of second-grade vocational training or further vocational training; to María Virginia Morenas Romero and Leonor Álvarez Pérez in the category of university graduates with three-year degrees; and to Angela de Thena Garrote and Raquel García Gómez in the category of university graduates with degrees of five years or more. The research grant was awarded to Antonio García González, for his work Empleo de escorias procedentes de la fabricación de aluminio como reductor de residuos industriales y suelos contaminados por cromo hexavalente (The use of aluminium slag as a means of reducing industrial waste and land contaminated with hexavalent chromium). Lastly, the prizes for results achieved in professional upgrading training programmes and courses organized or promoted by Abengoa S.A. or its subsidiaries were awarded to Germán Ayora López and Cristóbal Ramos Carranza. Admission of Guillermo Jiménez Sánchez to the Andalusian Academy of Social Sciences and the Environment At a ceremony held on 4 November, Guillermo J. Jiménez Sánchez, Honorary Vice-President of Focus-Abengoa and Constitutional Court judge, was made a member of the Andalusian Academy of Social Sciences and the Environment (Academia de Ciencias Sociales y del Medio Ambiente de Andalucía), of which Antonio Pascual Acosta is the President. The ceremony was attended by the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia, the President of the Constitutional Court, the Secretary of State for Education and Universities and the President of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation, along with other dignitaries from Seville's university, business and cultural circles. The Foundation was only too happy for the church to be used for the ceremony, and José Enrique Ayarra, the official organist, gave a recital. The reply speech was delivered by academy member Miguel Rodríguez-Piñero y Bravo Ferrer.