• The Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves Network initially numbers 60 reserves in 14 countries.

The “Let’s Learn by Looking at Road Signs” road safety scheme was set up to educate a generation of the public to be aware of the responsibility involved in driving a vehicle

on public roads and the importance of safeguarding lives. The programme has reached 1,300,000 people including schoolchildren in state and private schools, special schools

and adults in the 7 municipalities the toll road runs through.

The Fourth Abertis International Prize for Transport Infrastructure has been awarded to Dr. Julien Monteil, in the doctoral thesis category, for his work entitled “Investigating the effects of cooperative vehicles onhighway traffic flow homogenization: analytical and simulation studies“. In the dissertations and final theses or masters category the winner was Irene Martínez Santamaría for her work “Effects of freeway traffichomogeneity on lane changing activity: the role of dynamic speed limits”. Both were this year’s winners of the national prizes in their respective categories, which were conferred by the Abertis Chair in France and Spain.

Abertis, through its subsidiary in Brazil, Arteris, sponsors the first retrospective of Joan Miró to travel to Brazil ever. The exhibition is titled “Joan Miró. A força da matéria” and gathers a total of 114 works by the artist, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphic artworks made between 1931 and 1981. These works are part of the collections of the Fundació Joan Miró (66 of the total), and those of private individuals.

The “Velázquez” exhibition, sponsored by Abertis through its subsidiary in France, Sanef, has become one of the cultural events of the year in Paris, averaging almost 5,000 visitors a day, which are record figures.