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The Vice-Rectorate for Social Responsibility, Culture, and Sport, through its Cultural Service, annually promotes Cultural Promotion Competitions to foster artistic development within the university community and encourage creative activities. Each competition has a specific theme and is open to the entire Rey Juan Carlos University community: students, alumni, administrative and service staff, teaching and research staff, and research and development staff.
Three prizes are established: a first prize of €500; a second prize of €300; a third prize of €200;
Audiovisual Pieces Contest
Rey Juan Carlos University Audiovisual Pieces Competition 2025, 2nd edition, “From story to screen”.
In the 2023-2024 academic year, three stories were awarded prizes in the 18th edition of the Rey Juan Carlos University Short Story Competition, under the title "Non-Fiction Story." In this second edition of the URJC Audiovisual Competition, we invite participants to transform one of these stories into an audiovisual piece or to use it as a source of inspiration for their short film.
- Anti-birders Author: Anton Edel Gonzalez Wheat || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- eTA Author: Javier Benito Carro || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- From story to anti-birding screen Author: Andrea Salvatierra Sánchez || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
Essay Contest
Rey Juan Carlos University Essay Competition 2025, 2nd edition, “AI AND CLIMATE CHANGE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
In this second edition of the URJC Essay Contest, we invite the entire university community to reflect on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and climate change, two phenomena that are transforming the present and will define the future.
- 1st prize: “THE ALGORITHMIC PARADOX” Author: Alberto Carpio Moreno. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- 2nd prize “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE NUNC AUT NUNQUAM” Author: Inés García Barceló. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- 3rd prize “THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS” Author: Daniel Mora Huerta. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
Plastic Arts Contest
Rey Juan Carlos University Visual Arts Competition 2025, 6th edition, “The FUTURE OF THE PLANET”.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, a phenomenon that is transforming landscapes, ecosystems, and life on the planet. In this sixth edition of the URJC Visual Arts Competition, we invite participants to explore, through illustration using any technique, the many realities that emerge from this environmental crisis.
- 1st prize. Where plastics nest Author: Andrea Ramírez Santamaría || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- 2nd prize. The memory of the trees Author: Uma Peirano Hermann || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- 3rd prize. Sustainability Author: Miguel Ángel Ajuriaguerra Escudero || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
Short Story Contest
Rey Juan Carlos University Short Story Competition 2025, XIX edition, “STORIES OF A CHANGING WORLD”.
Climate change is not just a matter of data and scientific predictions; it is a reality that affects people, communities, and landscapes worldwide. In this 19th edition of the URJC Short Story Competition, we invite participants to write a story that, whether fictional or inspired by real events, addresses the many dimensions of this global crisis.
- For her work: “POST-CAPITALIST BREASTFEEDING MANUAL” Author: Aroa Oriza Rubio || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- For his work: UNTITLED Author: Rosa Pérez Arozamena || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- For her work: “LUMI AND THE PARADISE OF FLOWERS” Author: Franco Vicenzo Bernaola Canales || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
Photo Contest
Rey Juan Carlos University Photography Competition 2025, 19th edition, “THE TRAIL OF CHANGE”.
Climate change is transforming the world at an unprecedented rate. Its effects are evident in disappearing landscapes, extreme weather events, transforming cities, and everyday acts of adaptation or resistance. In this 19th edition of the URJC Photography Competition, we invite participants to capture, through their photographic eye, the impact of climate change on our environment.
- 1st prize: “TERRA MARE” Author: Micaela Amengual Molina || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- 2nd prize: “AN ENCOUNTER THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED” Author: Elena Vicente Valluerca || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es
- 3rd prize “WITNESSES OF ABANDONMENT” Author: Gabriel Izquierdo Gonzalez || This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es