Chapter 283 Carlo Award

In order to effectively promote the improvement of the medical environment in Spain, Carlo decided to increase support for medical development and set up relevant awards as a means of support.

As mentioned before, Carlo has also established relevant innovation awards in the industrial field, but they are always small awards and their purpose is only to support innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises.

For this award regarding the promotion of medical development, Carlo decided to completely imitate the Nobel Prize of later generations and establish a famous award that would cause a sensation throughout Europe and even the world when it is awarded.

If this newly established award is to become a sensation in Europe, generous rewards are essential.

The upcoming award will have six sub-categories: literature, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and technology.

Winning any of these prizes will receive up to 80 pesetas in cash and other rewards, with the total value of all rewards adding up to one million pesetas.

According to the exchange rate between the peseta and the pound, as long as you can win any of these awards, you can get more than 5 pounds in funds alone.

This is not a small amount of money, enough to impress any scientific research organization, enterprise or individual in the world.

The total prize money for the six awards is as high as 480 million pesetas, which is equivalent to 30 pounds. This amount of money alone is enough to shock the whole of Europe.

You should know that the initial prize money for the famous Nobel Prize was just the interest generated by the 920 million US dollars in Nobel’s estate.

The first Nobel Prize was awarded with a prize of about $20, which is only 4 pounds. Compared with the prize of 30 pounds established by Carlo, the Nobel Prize has to give way.

This generous prize money alone is enough to make this award famous throughout Europe in a short time.

The generous prize money was only the first step for Carlo to establish the award. The second step was to continuously promote the newly established award so that every scientific researcher and related industry personnel in the world would be proud of winning the award.

The new award was named the Carlo Award by Carlo, in an effort to quickly increase the award’s fame.

Of course, Carlo also has his own selfish motives. When the Carlo Prize successfully becomes one of the best academic awards in the world, the name Carlo will be well known to everyone and will be passed down for hundreds of years.

This is like the Nobel Prize in later generations, which is why Nobel is known to people. It is an honor to name an award after a person, including the Nobel Prize, Turing Award and other famous awards.

When people in later generations talk about the Carlo Prize, they will also remember a Spanish king named Carlo a hundred years ago. It was he who spent a lot of money to establish the Carlo Prize, which promoted the progress of science and technology for the entire human race.

This huge increase in reputation is also good for the royal family. As the first king of the Spanish Savoy Dynasty, Carlo’s reputation is related to the survival of the Spanish Savoy Dynasty.

As long as Carlo enjoys great popularity among the people, the House of Savoy will have a very high support rate in Spain. Even if the throne is overthrown due to some accidents in the future, it can regain the throne of Spain by seeking the help of the royalists.

In addition to promoting medical advancement, Carlo also hopes that this award will continue to attract more elite talents from all walks of life to Spain in the next few decades or even hundreds of years.

Therefore, it is also necessary to pay close attention to attracting these winners.

If a Spanish national wins the Carlo Prize, in addition to a financial reward of 80 pesetas, he or she will also receive a personal meeting with Carlo, a property in any city in Spain, 50 acres of land and a medal.

Winners of scientific research awards can also use Spain’s top laboratories for free and are eligible to join the Royal Academy of Sciences.

If a foreigner wins the Carlo Prize, he or she can directly apply for Spanish citizenship. After obtaining Spanish citizenship, he or she can enjoy the same treatment as Spanish winners.

Of course, even if these foreign winners do not want to become Spanish citizens, as long as they are willing to work part-time at various universities in Spain, they can still use Spain’s top laboratories and related information.

If these winners are willing to join the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, their research funding will be increased by several levels.

In general, whether it is material rewards or support for scientific research, the Carlo Prize has achieved perfection.

Using this award to attract talents to Spain, even if not all the winners can be recruited, at least more than half of the winners will choose to join Spain.

Of course, there are some scientists who put their country above all else and may be indifferent to Spain’s attempts to win them over.

But these people are always a minority. As long as most of the Carlo Prize winners can be recruited, Carlo’s plan for this award will be met.

In order to allow the Carlo Prize to continue to operate for a long time like the Nobel Prize in later generations, rather than relying on his own funding every year, Carlo decided to set up a Carlo Prize jury and an award operating company to be responsible for the annual awarding of the Carlo Prize and the distribution of prize money.

In order to maintain the popularity of the award, Carlo does not intend to reduce the prize money in the short term. This also means that at least 480 million pesetas are needed every year just to pay out the prize money, which is not a small expense.

Carlo plans to invest 2500 million pesetas in the award’s operating company in one go, which will use the money for investment and use the income earned to pay out annual bonuses.

After deducting the first year’s bonus and some advertising expenses, the operating company has nearly 2000 million pesetas at its disposal.

With such a huge amount of funds used to invest in industry and finance, it is easy to earn millions of pesetas every year in the current rapid development environment of Spain.

Especially when investing in industries with great potential, it is very likely that the investment funds will be multiplied several times in just a few years.

After operating in this way for a few years, the operating company will have enough funds to pay out the annual award prizes, and the remaining funds can be used to maintain the operation of the award.

Even if the currency depreciates in the future, the operating company can continue to maintain the attractiveness of the award by increasing the prize money.

Over the years, the Carlo Prize has easily become a world-renowned scientific research award, and each award attracts the attention of a large number of countries and scientific workers.

Any scientist who wins the award will instantly become a hot commodity and will be sought after by various countries and large companies.

In order to promote the fame of the Carlo Prize, the media controlled by the Spanish royal family has been promoting the newly established Carlo Prize since the end of the Ashanti War.

If the Triple Alliance and the assassination of the US president had not diverted some of the attention away, the Carlo Prize would probably have been known to many Europeans by then.

Even so, in several countries surrounding Spain, the Carlo Prize has become a hot topic and has attracted much attention from scientific researchers.

In order to make the awards famous as soon as possible, the prize money of all six awards is open to the public. The public may just be amazed at how generous the prize money is, but in the field of scientific research, many scientists are already eager to make a move.

As long as you win the final award, you can get this bonus, which is very important income for scientists who are in urgent need of research funds and scientists from poor families. Since Spain launched the public opinion campaign, more than 1000 scientists have signed up to participate in the selection of the Carlo Award in less than a month.

It is worth mentioning that the award with the most entries is the literature award, which is also related to the large number of cultural universities in Spain.

Before Carlo became the King of Spain, most universities in Spain taught cultural subjects, and there were very few science universities related to mathematics, physics and chemistry, and they could be counted on one hand.

Although there have been great changes at present, the group of writers trained by cultural universities will not disappear out of thin air.

After learning that the Carlo Prize has such a generous prize money, these people couldn’t wait to register their works for the Carlo Prize. Their goal was the literature prize.

Relatively speaking, it is easier to win a literature award. However, considering that there are too many applicants for the literature award, the difficulty of winning the literature award has increased after the great wave of elimination.

Considering that there are many literary giants among those who apply for the literature award, the difficulty of winning the first Carlo Prize is no less difficult than other awards, and may even be much higher.

After all, cultural selections are inherently uncertain, and with such fierce competition, anyone could win the final award.

On the contrary, the Physics and Chemistry Prizes, which have fewer applicants, may not be too difficult to win in the end.

Currently, the main applicants are scholars and scientists from Spain and neighboring countries. Only these relatively close countries can deliver the letters in less than a month.

There was no Internet at that time, so the only way to register was to send a letter, introduce your own work and research and development results, and then wait for further review by the jury.

Precisely because registration and judging take a long time, even though the award was established as early as the end of the year, Carlo still postponed the final award ceremony to the end of the year.

The Carlo Awards will be presented on the last day of December each year, and registration for the following year’s awards will begin on the second day of the awards ceremony, which is the first day of each year.

It takes a whole year to register and review the works to ensure that the winning works are genuine.

The Carlo Prize is an award used by Spain to attract a large number of talents. Carlo will not allow cheating in the selection of the award.

At least on the surface, the selection of awards must be fair and just, and no one should be treated unfairly.

Of course, due to distance reasons, currently only people within Europe can sign up to run.

Although there are many writers and scientific researchers in the United States, their registration takes longer and is obviously not in time for the first Carlo Prize ceremony.

Fortunately, the registration for the second Carlo Awards can start on the first day of the new year, so Americans can still catch up with the registration for the second Carlo Awards.

Since the establishment of the Carlo Prize, a large number of letters have been mailed to the jury’s address every day.

The jury has almost no free time. Their work is quite arduous, not only do they need to identify the authenticity of the works and research and development results in these letters, but they also need to select these works and research and development results, select the best work, and let it win the final award.

The process of distinguishing the authenticity alone takes a long time, but the process of selecting the best works and research and development results does not take too long.

Since the official announcement of this award, Spain has also been warming up for the award ceremony at the end of the year.

Only when the winners receive much attention, even the attention of the entire European people, can they experience the supreme sense of honor and accomplishment, and feel honored to have won the award.

This will also arouse the interest of more scholars and scientists in signing up for the award, allowing Spain to continue selecting among these scholars and scientists.

Although only six people receive the award each year, this does not mean that the Spanish government can only contact these six winners.

The Spanish government will also contact other scientists whose research and development results did not win awards but also have a certain effect.

Talent is something that no country can ever have too much of. This not only means that you can have one more talent, but also means that your enemies will have one less talent.

It is through the continuous accumulation of talents that Spain can gain an advantage in scientific research and thus promote progress in all walks of life.

Carlo is mainly concerned about the progress of the review in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and medicine. Needless to say, medicine is the basis for Carlo to improve the medical environment he can enjoy.

There are also numerous industries and projects related to mathematics, physics and chemistry, including the electric power industry and automobile industry, which are the key industries developed by Spain.

It is no exaggeration to say that the number of mathematical, physics and chemical talents a country has can, to a certain extent, determine the strength of the country.

As long as there are enough talents in mathematics, physics and chemistry, we can promote the progress of industries related to mathematics, physics and chemistry. Military industry, light and heavy industry and chemical industry are all related to mathematics, physics and chemistry, and talents in mathematics, physics and chemistry are also the foundation of industrial progress.

So far, Spain’s promotion of the Carlo Awards has been quite successful.

Although most of the applicants are scholars, there are also many relevant scientists. Many people have used their best scientific research achievements in their lives to apply for the selection of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and these research and development achievements also include theories and experiments that have laid the foundation for the industry.

For the jury, choosing the best among these far-reaching research results is no less difficult than choosing the best among literary works.

Carlo was also very concerned about the jury’s review progress and issued his own instructions.

Regardless of whether the literary works and scientific research projects that ultimately win the awards are the best, these works and projects must first be recognized by the European people.

If the works and scientific research projects finally selected cannot gain public recognition, it will prove that the award has failed from the beginning.

Only when the award is recognized by the public and has credibility can it be successfully run.

Otherwise, no matter how high the prize money of the Carlo Prize is, people will lose interest in such an award that lacks credibility.

How to choose the most recognized works and scientific research projects among the entries is also a difficult problem for the jury.

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