Press releases

Find here the latest press releases of the Compostela Group of Universities.

2023

June

The XXVII International Prize Grupo Compostela-Xunta de Galicia honours the promoter of the Camino Torres, Luis Antonio Miguel Quintales. 

2022

June

The XXVI International Prize Grupo Compostela-Xunta de Galicia is bestowed to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer.

2021

September

The ‘WithArt on the Camino’ project brings the Fine Arts university community.

July

Javier Solana de Madariaga awarded the XXV International Prize Grupo Compostela Xunta de Galicia.

The CGU promotes the WithArt on the Camino project.

2020

September

  The Compostela Group of Universities holds its first online general assembly

June

Carlos Villanueva awarded the XXIV International Prize Grupo Compostela-Xunta de Galicia

2019

May

  • George Greenia donates the economic amount of the XXIII International Prize Grupo Compostela-Xunta de Galicia.

April

  • George Greenia awarded the XXIII International Prize Grupo Compostela–Xunta de Galicia.

2018

September

  • The Compostela Group of Universities invites higher education institutions to analyse the role of social responsibility in its general assembly.

May

  • María Pilar Alonso Abad awarded the XXII International Prize Grupo Compostela–Xunta de Galicia.

March

  • More than 100 international students participate in the university project the value of human rights on the Camino de Santiago.

2017

October

  • The international seminar Camino de Santiago and Europe highlights the role of the pilgrimage route.

September

  • The award of the Prize Grupo Compostela-Xunta de Galicia to Marcelino Oreja Aguirre closes the XXIII General Assembly of the Compostela Group of Universities.