The Jury of the IV edition was composed by Juan Casares, Rector of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC); Roberto Varela, Minister for Culture of the Government of Galicia; Xosé Manuel Villanueva, Manager of the Consorcio de Santiago; Xosé Denis, Director of programs of the Consorcio de Santiago; Miguel Ángel Sabadell, science editor of the magazine Muy Interesante; Manuel Miramontes, acting director of the Science Museums of A Coruña; José Edelstein, Professor of theoretical physics of the USC; and by the Director of the program ConCiencia, Jorge Mira.
The Consortium of Santiago and the University of Santiago de Compostela, aware of the importance of the transfer of knowledge and the scientific education needs of society, agreed in 2006 to create the ConCiencia program to invite the greatest intellects of the international scientific community to transmit their ideas to a city which is a symbol of culture and knowledge.
Under the auspices of the ConCiencia program, the Fonseca Prize of scientific popularization was created with the aim of promoting the transfer of this knowledge to the general public. In this task it is compulsory to acknowledge the role of mass media, which are the main instruments for this action.
