The student Elise Alonso Jourdan, from the Institut Badia i Margarit in Igualada, is the winner of the fourth edition of the Europa Jove award organised by the Representation of the European Commission in Barcelona and the Catalunya Europa Foundation.

Her research work entitled Comparison and proposal of public policies on the fight against child povert: case studies in Spain, France and Slovenia (available online) (Comparació i proposta de polítiques públiques sobre la lluita contra la pobresa infantil: estudis de cas a Espanya, França i Eslovènia), has been the best valued by the jury for the suitability and interest of the topic, the quality of the research and the capacity of analysis. Elisa Alonso Jourdan's research, presented in French, analyses the issue of child poverty in three EU states and looks at how the European Child Guarantee is being deployed.

The author of the winning research will receive €500 and the two runners-up will receive €250 each. They will also have the opportunity to travel to Brussels to learn about the European institutions.

The jury also awarded two runners-up prizes for research papers this year: The EU's controversial veto system. How can we solve it? (El polèmic sistema de vetos de la UE. Com el solucionem?) by Lucas Poblador Bravo from the Sant Josep School in Sant Boi de Llobregat; and The resurgence of the far-right in Europe (El ressorgiment de la ultradreta a Europa) by David Alonso Martin from the Baix Penedès Institute in El Vendrell. In the first case, the jury valued very positively the chosen theme and the analytical and propositional nature of the work. In the second runner-up prize, the jury highlighted the suitability of the topic and the approach taken.