The Government opens the call for the Gold Medal and Ramon Llull awards

The Government of the Balearic Islands has opened the public call to grant the Gold Medal of the Autonomous Community and the Ramon Llull Prize for 2027, the two highest institutional recognitions of the archipelago. This is done through Resolution 10676 of the second vice-president and counselor of Presidency, Coordination of Government Action and Local Cooperation, Antònia Maria Estarellas Torrens, published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) no. 138, of October 29, 2026 (pp. 59641 to 59645). The text, electronically signed on October 22, approves the bases (annex 1) and appoints the jury responsible for evaluating the candidacies (annex 2).

The call is made in compliance with article 5 of Decree 2/2014, of January 10, which regulates the Gold Medal, and article 5 of Decree 3/2014, of January 10, which regulates the Ramon Llull Prize: both require the Department of the Presidency to publish the resolution before October 31 of each year for the following exercise. The Gold Medal was created by Decree 54/1984, of July 26, modified by Decree 15/1989, of February 9, while the Ramon Llull Prize was established by Decree 5/1997, of January 23. The competence to grant them corresponds to the Government Council, in accordance with article 17.p) of Law 1/2019, of January 31, of the Government of the Balearic Islands.

Two distinctions with different purposes

The bases emphasize that these are two independent awards and that candidacies must be submitted separately.

• Gold Medal: to honor natural or legal persons who have distinguished themselves through their personal or professional trajectory in the defense, promotion, or encouragement of the institutions and general interests of the autonomous community, with a special projection outside the Balearic Islands. One is granted per year, although exceptionally more than one may be awarded, upon the proposal of the president of the Government.
• Ramon Llull Prize: to recognize those who have excelled within the territory of the Islands for services rendered in the cultural, sporting, legal, business, civic, humanitarian, research, teaching, and linguistic fields. A maximum of ten may be granted each year.
• Nature: both are exclusively honorary, without economic effect, and of a personal, non-transferable, and permanent nature, unless the awarded person is convicted by a final judicial sentence.

Persons convicted by a final sentence for any criminal act, nor any authority of the State —with the exception of His Majesty the King— or of the Autonomous Community currently in office, may not receive the distinctions. Furthermore, candidacies cannot be submitted in one’s own name through an entity of which the interested person is part of the governing bodies.

Deadline open until December 15

The period for submitting candidacies begins the day after publication in the BOIB, that is, October 30, 2026, and ends on December 15, 2026. Public administrations, public bodies and entities, associations and organizations representing economic or social interests, and natural or legal persons may propose candidates, without a limit on the number of proposals. There are three methods of submission:

• The web link https://diada.caib.es/inscripcio-premis, which does not require a digital certificate and issues a receipt of reception.
• The Electronic Office of the Autonomous Community, using the electronically signed form and a digital certificate, electronic DNI, or Cl@ve Permanente.
• In person at the Registry of Passeig de Sagrera, 2, in Palma, or at any of the locations listed in article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, with a letter addressed to the General Directorate of Institutional Relations and Relations with Parliament (DIR3 A04044054).

Each candidacy requires its own form, full identification of the candidate with name, surnames, official designation and NIF or CIF, and a reasoned description of the merits. Files up to 20 MB may be attached. If the proposal is posthumous, this must be stated.

A seventeen-member jury and a closed calendar

The jury is presided over by the counselor Antònia Maria Estarellas Torrens, with one full member and one substitute for each of the eleven departments, and has as secretary Leyla Bouazza Ariño, head of the Institutional Relations Service. The first meeting must always take place before January 20 and the deliberations must end by January 31; the jury is validly constituted with two-thirds of its members and is convened 48 hours in advance. The proposal for the award must be submitted to the Governing Council before the first session of February, and the reasoned agreement must be adopted in the second session of February. The awards will be presented in Palma around February 28, 2027, coinciding with the Day of the Balearic Islands. The rules also provide for direct granting by the president in exceptional circumstances, without a call for applications or a jury.

With this publication, the Government completes the annual calendar of its most emblematic recognitions and opens the door for any citizen, entity, or institution to propose candidates until mid-December. The final decision, however, will not be known until February, when the Governing Council validates the names that will be presented at the events of the Day of the Balearic Islands.

Source: Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands, no. 138, October 29, 2026, Section III, pp. 59641-59645 (official reference: 10676).