Ceuta grants the 2025/2026 Academic Excellence Awards to three university students

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Youth of the Autonomous City of Ceuta has awarded the Awards for the Promotion of Academic Excellence for the 2025/2026 academic year to three students, with grants of 6,000, 3,000, and 1,000 euros. The decision is formalized in decree 709, dated October 8, 2026, signed by the minister Pilar Orozco Valverde, and published in the Official Gazette of the City of Ceuta (BOCCE) number 6,663, Friday, October 23, 2026, on page 3698.

Three records above 9.4

Annex I of the decree details the three awards granted, ordered by grade point average and indicating the credits completed, the record number, and the amount:

• Noor Bulaich Mohand: first prize, 6,000 euros, grade point average of 9.74 and 72 credits (record 56456).
• Kauzar Mustafa Ben Hattal: second prize, 3,000 euros, grade point average of 9.68 and 60 credits (record 56310).
• Jesús Calvo Guerrero: third prize, 1,000 euros, grade point average of 9.42 and 78 credits (record 56961).

The three grants total the 10,000 euros allocated for the call, charged to the budget application 012/3262/48001 “Academic excellence awards,” operation number 12026000030328, dated June 18, 2026.

Four applicants who were excluded

Annex II lists the applicants who met all the requirements but whose grades did not place them among the top three. There are four, all with grades above 8.6:

• Salma Bujiar Buchta: 9.35 grade point average and 60 credits (record 56502).
• Ilias Ahmed Ahmed: 9.28 and 60 credits (record 57450).
• Naira Mohamed Mohamed: 9.23 and 60 credits (record 57176).
• Mohamed Mohamed Zarrouk: 8.64 and 60 credits (record 57462).

Rules, requirements, and appeal process

The awards are governed by the Regulatory Bases published in the Extraordinary BOCCE number 67, dated December 26, 2025, and the call was approved by decree on July 8, 2026, published in the BOCCE number 6,645, dated August 21, 2026. The processing of the procedure was handled by the Social Workers Team of the Study Aid Department of the Ministry, which submitted the proposal for the final resolution in accordance with the eighth base, relating to the classification criteria.

Students of Spanish nationality residing in Ceuta, or from a European Union member state with permanent residence in the city, enrolled in official programs at any Spanish university or higher center of artistic education during the 2025/2026 academic year, were eligible to apply. The minimum required grade point average was 8 points for technical education, Undergraduate studies in the Engineering and Architecture branch, higher artistic education, Medicine, double degrees, and simultaneous studies, and 9 points for all other studies. Third-cycle studies, postgraduate, doctoral, master’s, and proprietary degrees were excluded.

The decree exhausts the administrative route. An optional appeal for reversal may be filed before the counselor herself within one month, or a direct challenge may be filed before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Ceuta within two months from the day following its publication.

Impact for Ceuta families

The awards are part of the promotion activity of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, which officially and publicly recognizes the academic performance of university and higher artistic education students residing in the city. The publication of both annexes, including awardees and non-awardees, provides transparency to the process and allows students to know their relative position in a competitive call that distributes 10,000 euros among the best academic records of the year.

Source: Official Gazette of the City of Ceuta, No. 6,663, of October 23, 2026, Section I, page 3698 (official reference: decree 709).