The gvSIG Chair Contest is announced for the second year to reward works about free Geographic Information Systems, in university world as well as in learning one. 

The aim of these awards is to foment gvSIG use in particular and free geospatial technologies in general, as well as to encourage all gvSIG and free Geographic Information Systems users to share and give visibility to their work.

Awards are aimed at students or graduates in secondary school or professional training, university students or graduates and university teachers, and researchers from all the countries.

At the next link you can find more information about dates, type of works accepted, amount of prizes, etc. (in Spanish):

http://gvsig.edu.umh.es/ii-concurso-catedra-gvsig/bases-ii-concurso/

You can see the video of the International gvSIG Conference where the winners of the last edition were presented:

And the video of the project rewarded at the last edition: