Roger Martínez, a second-year Advertising Graphics student at the Tarragona Provincial Council School of Art and Design, is the winner of the ‘Olympus Scholarship’ 2026. The scholarship is based on the charity dinner that the Hotel Olympus Palace 4* in Salou organises every year and which this year is in support of the IRB CatSud for cardiology research.
Among the projects presented by the students within the Professional Project Management module, Roger Martínez’s poster was selected unanimously in first place by the jury. The 21-year-old student from Valls therefore receives a scholarship with a financial award of 500 euros and a full weekend stay for two people at the Hotel Olympus Palace 4*. Roger’s proposal is focused on “this poster represents a collage of the territory, where there are elements linked to the world of cardiology, healthy food and everything that helps to have a strong heart. All of this has helped me become aware of how important it is to have good health,” explained the winner.
Cardiology Research at IRB CatSud
IRB CatSud has more than 40 research groups. One of them is the Tarragona Translational and Clinical Cardiology Research Group, which carries out its activity at the Joan XXIII University Hospital in Tarragona and is the recipient of the funds raised in this year’s edition of the Hotel Olympus Palace charity dinner. Its mission is to investigate and innovate in the field of cardiovascular diseases in order to develop strategies that allow more personalised treatments and improve patients’ prognosis.
More specifically, this group studies how to identify and use molecules or genes that help detect and better understand heart diseases. It also works on evaluating patient characteristics that may contribute to increasing the severity of different cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, heart failure, sudden death, etc.), with the aim of improving prognosis. In addition, it analyses why some people respond differently to certain medicines and how to improve treatment strategies so that they are more effective and safer. It also investigates minimally invasive techniques to treat coronary and valvular diseases, correct arrhythmias and optimise the functioning of pacemakers and defibrillators, among other lines of work.
Award Ceremony at the SUMMIT Rooftop
The panoramic terrace of the Hotel Olympus Palace 4* hosted the formal ceremony for the presentation of the ‘Olympus Scholarship’. The members of the jury, the Hotel Olympus Palace 4* team and the students, accompanied by friends and relatives, gathered to learn the final decision. In addition to the winner, it was also announced that the posters presented by Alba Pocurull and Andrea Hernández were finalists jointly. Both receive a one-night stay for two people at the Hotel Olympus Palace 4*. The hotel also rewarded the effort of the other students by giving them a day at SUMMIT for two people including a meal during this summer.
The representative of the ownership of Hotel Olympus, Gil Cristià, highlighted during his speech “our gratitude to the participating students for their work and dedication. I would also like to thank the management and teaching staff of the Tarragona Provincial Council School of Art and Design for their involvement and the dedication of the jury.”
The Tarragona Provincial Council School of Art and Design emphasised that “this project has been a real adventure, a process full of emotions. A challenge that we faced from the very beginning with shared enthusiasm. We felt very welcome and supported, and we want to thank you,” underlined Laura Casas, Itziar Solla, Silvia Iturria, Núria Anguren i Judith Guinovart, teachers from the Escola d’Art i Disseny of Diputació de Tarragona, of Pau Brull and Esther Fernández, on behalf of Rotary Club Tarragona, of Joan Vendrell, director from l’Institut de Recerca Biomèdica CatSud and of Maira Isaura Rojas, Beca Olympus 2024 winner.
The 2026 Charity Dinner will be held at Hotel Olympus Palace 4* on Thursday, 1 October at 7:00 p.m. All funds raised will be entirely allocated to research into the prevention of cardiovascular diseases conducted by the Institut de Recerca Biomèdica CatSud and Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona.
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