MWCC has been present at the V Entrecanales Ibarra Foundation Awards Ceremony. The event was attended by the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economy and Digital Transformation, along with the Foundation’s board of trustees.

The Vice President explained the key moment of transformation in which the country finds itself and the profound change that it is going to experience thanks to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which will allow the mobilization of 140,000 million euros and will promote the reforms and investments that the necessary. She has considered key the development of projects such as the railway connections of the Mediterranean axis, the Atlantic axis, but also the connection with the Port of Algeciras and with the Port of Bilbao, the Basque Y.

The 5th edition of the José Entrecanales Ibarra Foundation awards went to Javier Manterola Armisén, in the Civil Engineering Award category, and to the cooperation project to build a bridge between Senegal and Gambia, in the Development Cooperation category.

The José Entrecanales Ibarra Foundation was established in 1999. The object and purpose of the donations made were focused on developing the study and research in Geotechnics and Soil Mechanics. This object was later specified with the provision of scholarships for doctoral students who decided to carry out their thesis on these subjects.

When the José Entrecanales Ibarra Foundation was established with these legacies, it was decided by its board of trustees to expand the foundational objective by creating two prizes, an International Civil Engineering Prize and a Development Cooperation Prize consisting of financing the execution of a public work in countries with poor basic infrastructure.