The Jury will be made up of three members, authors, booksellers or educationalists for the world of literature of recognised prestige. The Jury may not decide not to award the prizes, unless there are no entries, and may likewise name up to two runners-up. The decision of the Jury will be final. Under no circumstances may a single contestant be awarded two prizes, even though their work may be highlighted with a mention. Anybody who is related by marriage or similar status and/or are a blood relative up to the fourth degree of kinship or related by affinity up to the second degree of kinship with any of the contestants may not be a member of the jury.

The entries will be exhibited at the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects, Alameda Mazarredo 69, Bilbao.

All the entered notebooks will be exhibited on the biarchitecture.org website from 20 January 2025. The public can vote electronically on that website until 30 January 2025

The prize-giving ceremony will be held at the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects, Alameda Mazarredo 69, Bilbao, in January 2025.

Taking part in the contest means you agree to transfer to the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia the intellectual property rights you as the contestant hold, as the author, regarding the micro-stories entered into the contest (hereinafter, the entries). The COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia may reproduce, distribute, publicly display and transform, including translating them, the entries, without any limitation of time or place, and the name and surname of the author of the work in question. Therefore, the Delegation may – including, but not limited to – publish the entries on the BIA website, in the BIA dissemination media in the internal and external areas of COAVN, in the mass media featuring news on BIA, in BIA leaflets, in BIA publications, common to the specific or grassroots activities of BIA_STORIES, in BIA exhibitions, etc.; for that purpose, the Delegation may alter the format of the entries, even when that means a loss of their quality.

The author may use the entered works for other situations or purposes provided that they expressly state there that the work has been entered in the Bia-Stories contest of the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia.

The contestants are liable for the authorship and originality of the entries, and for ensuring that there are no third-party rights on the entries that may be affected. The contestants must hold harmless the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia against any claim that third parties may bring against the latter on the grounds of the breach of their rights, including image, industrial and intellectual property rights.

The Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects will rule on all aspects not envisaged in these terms and conditions.

Pursuant to the Spanish Data Protection Act 3/2018 and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 regarding on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, we hereby inform you that your data will be entered in the COAVN database; the use of your data will be restricted to the holding of the BIA-STORIES contest and the activities and/or publications referred to in the ‘Entries’ section of these terms and conditions. Entering the BIA-STORIES contest implies authorising COAVN to disclose the name and surname(s) of the contestant to third parties to manage participation in the contest; to judge the entry for the purpose of awarding, as applicable, the prize in question; and for the activities and/or publications referred to in the “Entries” section of these terms and conditions.

The data controller of your data is COAVN, and the legal grounds for their processing is the consent given by the data subject when entering the contest, as that implies acceptance of these terms and conditions. Under no case will COAVN use the personal of the data subjects for purposes other than those mentioned above; it undertakes to treat them with the due professional confidentiality and to establish the necessary organisational and technical measures to safeguard the information in accordance with the requirements of current data protection legislation.

You as the data subject can exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, objection, portability and limitation of use by writing, accompanied by a copy of your official identity document, to COAVN whose registered office is at ALAMEDA DE MAZARREDO, 69, 1º, 48009, BILBAO (BIZKAIA) or to the email address: coavn@coavn.org. Should a contestant ask for his/her data to be deleted from the publications that the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia may carry out, the Delegation may continue to include in the publication the micro-stories entered in the contest provided that the contestant is identified as anonymous; however, that may not be taken to be a breach of copyright of the author.