Next Monday, October 19, at noon, the Palau de la Música Catalana facilities will host the awards ceremony for the twelfth edition of the DonaTIC Awards of the Secretariat for Digital Policies.
The Secretariat for Digital Policies of the Department of Business and Employment of the Generalitat de Catalunya will organize the awards ceremony for the twelfth edition of the DonaTIC Awards . The event will take place next Monday, October 19, at 12 noon, at the Palau de la Música Catalana. This year, the competition has received 164 nominations, breaking the participation record and registering an increase of 86% compared to the eleventh edition of the DonaTIC Awards with the presentation of 76 more nominations. In this sense, the DonaTIC Awards 2026 offer twelve distinctions that are distributed in three areas and in eight categories: Entrepreneur, Businesswoman, Professional, Academic/Researcher, Dissemination, DonaTIC Revelation, ICT Student and Reference Initiatives. Specifically, the ICT Student category includes the categories ICT University Student, ICT FP Student, ICT Student for requalification and/or improvement of skills and ICT Doctorate Student, and the Reference Initiatives category includes the categories Business Reference Initiative and Entity, Training Center or Institution Reference Initiative. In essence, the DonaTIC 2026 Awards aim to make visible and recognize the role and talent of women in the professional, business and academic world of digital technologies, as well as offer new contemporary female references, promote vocations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and encourage the presence of women in higher education.