June 2018

After Annual award ceremony, today King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain spend their second day in Girona and attended the annual event “Talent Rescuers” one of the main programs of the Princess of Girona Foundation at Hotel Camiral in Girona.

The focus of this annual event is improving the employability of young people.  The event presents and promotes the transformative project that has as a differentiating factor the promotion of labour mobility between autonomous communities.

The Royal Couple began this day in the room “La Selva” of the Hotel Camiral, where they were received by the president and the director of the Princess of Girona Foundation, Francisco Belil and Mònica Margarit.

The annual meeting “Rescuers of Talent” began with the conference “Calmed technology” by Mrs Amber Case, cyborg-anthropologist.

The program is aimed at young people between 20 and 30 years old with higher education who are unemployed, underemployed or seeking their first job, in order to promote social mobility and meritocracy in access to the world of work. Currently, there are more than 3000 registered young people, who enjoy professional “mentoring” by senior executives of the 31 participating companies, specialized training in the development centres of the same companies, a job bank and mobility aids.

Finally, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia held a meeting with the different groups of the program, mentors, young people and human resources teams of the companies.

On her second day In Girona, Queen Letizia chose a beautiful look that does not take attention away from the young talent present there.

She was wearing a white top with small black stars printed on it from Massimo Dutti. The star printed blouse is par of her wardrobe since 2011.

Letizia paired to top with new black culotte trousers. The label of the trouser is still unknown.

Queen was carrying her Uterqüe black leather studded messenger bag and wore Magrit Vinayl pumps that she premiered when the Royal Couple welcomed Columbian President and First Lady to the Royal Palace in May this year.

Her Chanel Comete earrings completed today’s look.

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After attending the working meeting of the foundation and meeting the award winners, King Felipe and Queen Letizia had a quick change of wardrobe before attending the award ceremony at the Celler de Can Roca Events Center in Girona.

The awards are awarded in five categories: four individual awards to young people (between 16 and 35 years old) who undertake and start a work, a business, an endeavor, especially if they entail difficulty or risk, and are creatively bringing the positive changes in society, and an entity that works in favor of young people, especially in the promotion of entrepreneurship, employability and employment, education and school success, vocation and talent.

The Young Orchestra of Extremadura gave a musical performance during the ceremony.

King Felipe and Queen Letizia handed out the Princess of Girona Foundation Awards 2018 endowed with 10,000 euros and a trophy designed by the sculptor Juan Muñoz.

The juries of each category, formed by recognized experts in each field, have met in different parts of the Spanish geography (Mérida, Sevilla, Tenerife, Soria and Hospitalet de Llobregat) to decide the winners of this edition: the Granada singer Soleá Morente and the cellist Pablo Ferrández from Madrid (FPdGi Arts and Letters ex aequo awards), the Cáceres María Escudero chemistry engineer and the Sevillian chemist Guillermo Mínguez (FPdGi Scientific Research ex aequo Awards), the Barcelona aeronautical engineer José Miguel Bermúdez (FPdGi Empresa Award) , the social entrepreneur from Madrid Arancha Martínez (FPdGi Social Award) and the French organization Article 1 (FPdGi International Entity Award).

Speaking at the event, King Felipe said, “We are here today to recognize the efforts of young people and entities working to improve the life of other peoples.”

Felipe was greeted with a huge round of applaud after his encouraging speech.

Felipe and Letizia posed for a group photograph with the award winners in the garden of the centre.

This year Queen Letizia chose to recycle one of her old looks for the annual awards.

She wore red Carolina Herrera pleated crepe sleeveless dress that she premiered last year at 15th anniversary of Vocento in September.

The dress belongs to the label’s 2017-2018 pre-Fall collection and features a scooped vee-neckline with a flared pleated skirt.3

Letizia paired the dress with Magrit ‘Silvia’ red-heeled slide sandals also debuted last year in July during her visit to Malaga. The strappy sandal is made of red ayers snake and available at Magrit for 465$.

Queen was carrying red python handbag and finished her look with diamond earrings and beaded bracelet.

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Today King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain will be presenting annual Princess Girona Awards. Like every year before the award ceremony, the royal couple met with the members of the foundation and the previous year’s award winners.

The Princess of Girona foundation was established on June 26, 2009, by the Chamber of Commerce of Girona, Caixa Girona, the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation and “la Caixa” in the honour of Prince of Girona –  title held by the heir apparent of the Spanish Throne, the then Prince Felipe. After his proclamation as King, the title went to Princess Leonor, hence the foundation name changes to Princess of Girona Foundation.

The Princess of Girona Foundation aims to become a global platform and a benchmark for the promotion of progress and talent, through projects where the real protagonists are young people, whatever their age and scope (business, social, cultural, sports, academic or scientific). The Princess of Girona Foundation understands the support for young people as a way to enhance the capacity of the new generations in the construction of a better and more solidarity society, with special attention to young people from more disadvantaged backgrounds.

The activities of the Foundation are structured around four main lines: the promotion of entrepreneurial initiative, the school success of the youngest, the improvement of employability and the promotion of vocations, with a special interest in the detection of young people with talent that can become contemporary referents of other young people (FPdGi Awards), the launch of programs to improve employability (program “Rescuers of talent”) and educational innovation in the training of trainers (“Educate entrepreneurial talent” ). In 2017, the FPdGi will allocate 2.8 million euros to programs for the benefit of young people.

These awards are awarded in five categories: four individual awards to young people (between 16 and 35 years old) who undertake and start a work, a business, an endeavor, especially if they entail difficulty or risk, and with this they are capable of inducing creatively positive changes in society, and an entity that works in favor of young people, especially in the promotion of entrepreneurship, employability and employment, education and school success, vocation and talent.

Later on, their Majesties presided over the XVIII meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Princess of Girona Foundation.  In the evening, King and Queen will deliver the awards to the winners of this year’s edition at Celler de Can Roca Event Center in Girona.

For the first part of the day, Queen Letizia kept her look simple and youthful.

She was wearing her Boss Viplisa skirt that she debuted in November last year when the Royals welcomed Palestine President to Royal Palace.

Letizia has worn the skirt with different styles since then.

Today she teamed up the skirt with blue Light Cotton Top from Nina Ricci.

The already sold-out top from label’s Spring summer 2018 collection features a draped bodice with single sleeve, frayed hem and back zip closure.

Letizia paired the outfit with Magrit animal printed python Pumps that she premiered in this April when the couple received Portuguese president at the palace.

Her TOUS blue hydrothermal quartz and amber earrings finished the simple chic look of the day.

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