The Aena Foundation was created to promote aeronautical culture, to manage the historical, cultural and artistic heritage at Aena centers in Spain and to ensure its preservation and dissemination in Spanish society.

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In its effort to promote culture, the Aena Foundation1 encourages and engages in initiatives of different types through which to convey to society the values that Aena stands for and endorses.

Despite the financial situation, Aena continued to fund the Foundation, evidence of its commitment to culture and art (€1,106,000 in 2013).

The Foundation awardsThe nineteenth edition of the Aena Foundation Awards were presented in 2013 at a ceremony on 9 October 2013 in the Palacio de Zurbano in Madrid, a building owned by the Ministry of Development.

1 Due to the important role the Aena Foundation plays in promoting the culture and art of Aena, the inclusion of this section in the CR Report was considered appropriate even though it is not within the scope of the report, as detailed in the chapter on the profile of the report.

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Presentation of the nineteenth Aena Foundation Awards at the Palacio de Zurbano, held in October 2013. The awards were handed out by the Chairman of Aena, José Manuel Vargas, Javier Marín, Managing Director of Aena Aeropuertos and Ignacio González, Director of Air Navigation.

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On this occasion, and based on the variable frequency of the awards, the following winners were named:

Award Name Amount Given to Authors In recognition of

Luis Azcárraga

€12,000 / Year

What role will hubs play in the LCC point-to-point connections era? The Spanish experience, published in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Transport Geography

Multidisciplinary team created by professors José Ignacio Castillo Manzano, Lourdes López Valpuesta and Diego José Pedregal Tercero

Research, studies or projects that comprise a singular contribution to air transport in its various manifestations. There were seventeen nominees.

José Ramón López Villares

€3,000 / Year

Specification of the sizing of terminals in keeping with new airport operating models

Ana Mª Pérez López,

in the Airport categoryUp to four awards may be awarded. Presented to senior-year projects by Aeronautical Engineering majors at certified Spanish universities that involve Air Navigation or Airports. The Jury unanimously agreed to present the award to four of the fourteen projects that were nominated.

€3,000 / Year Innovative business models for running airports

Ethan Daniel Iglesias Dougherty,

in the Airport category

€3,000 / Year

Design of the Pamplona CTA with GNSS-based area navigation

Damián Rodríguez Fernández, in the Air Navigation category

€3,000 / Year

Updating the FMS on a calibration airplane to validate SBAS procedures

David García Asensio, in the Air Navigation category

Journalism €12,000 / Year

Spain gives in to low-cost: Ryanair is the biggest airline at a third of all airports,

Published on 13 January 2012 in Expansion.com (online edition of the daily magazine Expansión, in Madrid).

David Page Polo and

César Galera Bayón

Presented to reports in newspaper, radio, television or digital media and online publications involving transportation and air navigation, or airport facilities and services. There were nine nominees in this year’s edition.

 

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Foundation exhibitsIn 2013 the Aena Foundation organized several exhibits, indicative of Aena’s interest in disseminating culture and promoting exhibits of a historical nature at its airports.

Aeronautical

• Ibiza’s Aviation Gateway. From 11 October 2012 to 30 April 2013 at the Ibiza Airport.

• A century of Spanish Aeronautical Industry. (Collection of the Aena Foundation’s aviation models):

- Girona-Costa Brava Airport from 12 June to 25 July.

- Barcelona-El Prat Airport from 26 July to 5 September 2013.

- Reus Airport from 6 September to 21 October 2013.

Artistic• Natural paradises: Artificial reflections. From

4 April to 12 May 2013 at the Juan de Villanueva Pavilion in Madrid’s Royal Botanical Gardens. Consisting of 40 carefully selected works including large-format pictorial and ceramic murals, sculptures, photographs and graphic works from the Aena Collection of Contemporary Art. The natural world was the theme of this exhibit, which was seen by 22,641 visitors.

Given the conditions for accessing the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Aena Foundation made a total of one thousand tickets available to Aena Group employees so they could see they exhibit for free.

• air_port_art. aena contemporary art collection. From 21 June to 27 October 2013 in the rooms of the Luis Seoane Foundation in A Coruña. Consists of 105 pieces, including pictorial and ceramic murals, sculptures, graphic works, illustrations, photographs and multimedia works from 23 Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American artists.

Visited by a total of 6,125 people.

• Aena Collection of Graphic Works. From 17 July to 19 September 2013 at the Alicante Airport, and from 20 September to 20 January 2014 at the Almería Airport. Consisting of 22 small-format pieces, this exhibit showcased a wide representation of printing techniques, such as etchings, aquatint, drypoint, lithography and silk screen, from some of the most representative creators of contemporary Spanish and Latin American art.

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Foundation WorkshopsAnother of the goals of the Aena Foundation is to organize courses, seminars, conferences, workshops and the like in an effort to promote professional training and general knowledge in science, technology and culture as these relate to transportation and air navigation infrastructure.

Workshop on Historical Aeronautical Studies The 17th annual Workshops on Historical Aeronautical Studies were held on 22, 23 and 24 October. This is an event that the Aena Foundation has been promoting non-stop since 1997. The Workshops were held at the Ministry of Development’s Palacio de Zurbano in Madrid, with eight lectures organized into three chapters being presented on Figures in Spanish Aviation III:

Pioneers of flight

(First workshop)

Engineers and Scientists

(Second workshop)

The Path of Transportation

(Third workshop)

- Manuel Bada Vasallo (by Rafael Madariaga).

- Carlos Sánchez Tarifa (by José Luis Montañés).

- José Pazó (by José Antonio Martínez Cabeza).

- Antonio Fernández Santillana (by Antonio González-Betes).

- José Piñeiro (by Carlos Quintia Celaya).

- María Bernaldo de Quirós Bustillo. (Cancelled due to the unavailability of the speaker, Miriam Errejón Rojas).

- Pierre Georges Latécoère (by Luis Utrilla).

- Luis Tapia Salinas and Enrique Mapelli López (by Javier Aparicio).

- Salvador Hedilla (by Julián Oller).

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Airport Security Workshops Due to the importance of constantly subjecting airport regulations and security legislations, as well as police techniques and technical resources, to constant review so as to ensure the utmost safety of Spain’s airport users, the Aena Foundation has, since 2003, been promoting the Airport Security Chair in cooperation with the UNED (National Distance Learning University) through the University Institute on Research into Domestic Security (IUISI), and in concert with the Department of Security’s Office for Domestic Security Studies (GESI).

Structured into various training and research activities aimed at the national police forces that work in this area, the 2013/2014 academic year saw the following activities carried out:

• 5th Advanced Workshop on Airport Security. At the Madrid-Barajas Airport from 10 to 13 June 2013.

• 6th Advanced Workshop on Airport Security. At the Madrid-Barajas Airport from 24 to 27 June 2013.

• 23rd and 24th Basic Workshops on Airport Security. At the Palma Airport from 14 to 17 October 2013.

• 24th Basic Workshop on Airport Security. At the Sevilla Airport from 11 to 14 November 2013.

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The Aena Foundation either directly or in cooperation with other institutions publishes papers on air transportation and navigation, airport structures and on aviation in general. Every six months it also publishes the specialized magazine Aena Arte, as well as catalogs of the Aena Contemporary Art Collection, pocket books that detail the presentations given at the Workshops on Historical Aeronautical Studies and a collection that aims to disseminate every facet of aeronautical culture.

Publications in 2013

Published by the Foundation• Figuras de la Aeronáutica Española III [Figures

from Spanish Aviation III] (27th Workshops on Historical Aeronautical Studies).

• Ingeniería Aeroportuaria [Airport Engineering], by Marcos García Cruzado.

• Issues 34 and 35 of the magazine Aena Arte.

• 2012 Activities Report.

Sponsored by the Foundation• Camarada General. Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros,

Commanding Officer of the Air Force of the Spanish Republic. Audiovisual documentary. In cooperation with Euskal Telebista, S.A.

• Virgilio Leret, El Caballero del Azul [The Gentleman from the Blue]. Audiovisual documentary. In cooperation with Euskal Telebista, S.A. (Reissued).

• 3rd Seminar on Space Activities and Law. In cooperation with the Iberoamerican Institute of Air and Space Law.

• Catalog of the exhibit air_port_art. Aena collection of contemporary art, at the Luis Seoane Foundation in A Coruña.

• Cultural Heritage and Legal Yearbook (Volumes 16 and 17). In cooperation with the Hispania Nostra Association.

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In keeping with its commitment to defend the environment, the Foundation took various initiatives over the course of 2013 intended to promote a desire to respect and preserve our natural surroundings, especially among the younger generations.

• Birds, Travelers without Borders. Traveling exhibit consisting of 30 educational panels and 10 display cases that aims to introduce the fascinating migratory journeys made all over the world by some of the birds that visit the Spanish peninsula, as well as their main characteristics. In 2013 this exhibit toured the following airports:

- A Coruña, from 16 March to 29 April.

- Santiago, from 30 April to 14 June.

- Vigo, from 15 June to 31 July.

• Green Airports Project. In an effort to help disseminate the environmental policies of Aena Aeropuertos, the Foundation launched the Green Airports Project in 2011, an initiative whose effort is to raise awareness among primary school students about the importance of airports in modern life and the efforts made by Aena to minimize the impact that this infrastructure and air navigation has on the environment.

Through a hands-on workshop held at the airport, as well as by visits to airport facilities, students learn first-hand some of the measures implemented at the airport to manage its activities sustainably, such as the so-called “green landings”, the use of natural light and solar panels, the waste sorting plants, the use of electric cars, saving energy by using weight activated escalators, the use of low-energy bulbs, etc. At the conclusion of these activities, the project continues at the school itself through the participation of the students in the so-called Green Airports Challenge, which has them present their proposals for making airport facilities sustainable. The most creative and

innovative ideas are presented the Green Airports Award.

The 2nd Edition of the Green Airports Project concluded in the first half of 2013, which had started in October 2012 and in which a total of 4,986 students from 40 schools in the vicinity of the Barcelona-El Prat, Palma, Alicante, Valencia, Madrid-Barajas, A Coruña and Lanzarote airports took part. In October of 2013 the 3rd edition of the project started, which concluded in December 2013 following the involvement of around 3,000 students ages 8 to 12 from 22 schools in the provinces of Granada, Sevilla and Jerez.

Activities involving the defense and preservation of the environment: