Iraultza Unzueta Solozabal, Itziar Otaegi Tena, Lide Totorikaguena Iturriaga, Miren Artetxe Sarasola and Eneko Zuloaga San Roman have been the winners of the VII Literary Contest in the Basque Country. Koldo Mitxelena Award for her thesis in Basque.

The UPV/EHU and Euskaltzaindia launched the "Koldo Mitxelena Awards for Thesis in Euskera" fourteen years ago, with the aim of promoting and promoting research in Euskera. The awards are divided into five areas of knowledge: Sciences; Engineering and Architecture; Health Sciences; Social and Legal Sciences; and Arts and Humanities.

This year’s competition has featured 74 authors, the highest figure in history, and the winners have been:

• Area of Science: Unzueta Solozabal. Analysis of the influence of microstructure defects on the martensitic transformation and magnetic properties of Ni-base Heusler alloys.
• Engineering and Architecture Area: Itziar Otaegi Tena. Mixture of polymer and nanocomposites based on polymers of renewable origin and carbon nanoloads.
• Area of Health Sciences: Lide Totorikaguena Iturriaga Role of the cannabinoid system in ovarian physiology in mammals and oocyte maturation.
• Area of Social and Legal Sciences: Look at Artetxe Sarasola. Linguistic itineraries of the young people of the bertso-eskolas of Ipar Euskal Herria.
• Arts and Humanities Area: Eneko Zuloaga in San Román. [Toward the dialectology-diachronic study of the western Basque Country].

The winners will receive an accreditation diploma and a cash prize of EUR 2,000 gross.