Pangea World’s multinational approach represents an unprecedented opportunity to fortify a knowledge bank with incalculable value to strengthen and sustain the emerging global knowledge economy, one that could elevate the conservation of the planet’s most exquisite and vulnerable places into an economic imperative.
“Using Luxury Tourism, Science to Rethink Potential of Knowledge Economy.”
United Nations Press Release (17 September 2010)
PANGEA WORLD takes the TCR platform and strategy to a transnational level and into the arena of the knowledge economy. TCR Leadership® and TCR Vanguard® epitomize PANGEA WORLD’s commitment to engage in and achieve projects that are exemplary in the concept and the art of elevating the exhilaration of science-guided exploration of the world to a key economic safeguard of the integrity of the world’s wonders.
Each project is chosen by PANGEA WORLD for its potential to shape business, philanthropic, and political leadership along transnational bridges of knowledge. Intended to forge a pathway for a next generation knowledge economy, these bridges are charted by Pangea World in three dimensions. In the science dimension, the goal is to enact a dynamic web of trans-regional, cutting-edge research agendas whose promise to advance the frontiers of knowledge by unmasking the connectivity among variously distant threads of the earth’s natural fabric is not backed by the existing financial and logistical mechanisms of support for science. In the diplomacy dimension, the strategy is to build recognition and stature for these science-mapped, national jurisdictions bridging threads packed with yet-to-be-tapped knowledge capital and, thus, also plant safeguards of the enhanced value and prestige that would reward a new breed of resorts master-planned as gateways into far-reaching labyrinths of wonder. On the knowledge-economy front, the priority is to demonstrate that transnational research of natural legacies conducted under the umbrella of investments in world travel uniquely invites the treatment of the mobilized knowledge as a global asset destined to benefit all of humanity.
PANGEA WORLD stands for an approach to sustainability that is firmly grounded in a business model. It treats the investors to the opportunity to partner with nation states, governmental and business leaders, renowned scientists, and global philanthropists. It offers the promise of unparalleled legacies that complement each other as pillars of Bridges to Noble Wealth®—to knowledge-fuelled sustainable prosperity and peace.
Pangea World recognizes, with gratitude,
COMILLAS PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY (Madrid, Spain)
for establishing the
Image courtesy Comillas Pontifical University
Hana and Francisco J. Ayala Medal
awarded annually by the Hana and Francisco J. Ayala Center for Science, Technology, and Religion
for
“extraordinary accomplishments in bridging disciplines and nations to bolster the intellectual, spiritual, and humanitarian contribution of science”
The 2025 Ayala Medal Awardee:
Dr. Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez, Minister of Science, Humanities, Technology,
and Innovation of the Government of President Claudia Sheinbaum (Mexico)
Casa de América/Palacio de Linares, October 2, 2025
Photo courtesy Comillas Pontifical University
Comillas Pontifical University, October 3, 2025
Photo courtesy Comillas Pontifical University
The inaugural 2024 Ayala Medal Awardees:
Dr. Robert M. Hauser, then Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society (USA)
Dr. Diego Bermejo, Professor of Philosophy, University of Deusto (Spain)
Dr. Camilo J. Cela Conde, Professor Emeritus, University of the Balearic Islands (Spain)
The Medalist Dr. Robert Hauser (Comillas Pontifical University, March 12, 2024)
Photo courtesy Comillas Pontifical University
Frontiers of the Universal:
Towards a Symphony of Science, Art, Faith, and Knowledge Economy to Mobilize the Wonder of the Natural World in Benefit of Humanity
On March 12, 2024—the 90th anniversary of Francisco J. Ayala’s birth—the Hana and Francisco José Ayala Center for Science, Technology, and Religion at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid held an international event featuring speakers and endeavors that are taking Francisco J. Ayala’s core visions and achievements to a new level of world-changing impact and benefit.
The event culminated with the presentation of the Center’s inaugural medals to Dr. Robert M. Hauser, Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society (USA) and the event’s Guest of Honor; Dr. Diego Bermejo, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Deusto (Spain); and Dr. Camilo J. Cela Conde, Professor Emeritus of the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain).
In closing the ceremony, Comillas Pontifical University’s Rector Enrique Sanz stated: “With these medals of the Hana and Francisco J. Ayala Center for Science, Technology, and Religion we want to recognize the work of those who have shown not only academic and professional excellence, but also a deep commitment to exploring convergences and constructive dialogues between these fields traditionally considered different.”
see Comillas University press release
https://www.comillas.edu/en/redefiniendo-las-fronteras-del-conocimiento/
see Special Issue of Razón y Fe journal
(Volume 288, No. 1464, 2024),
a bilingual issue (in both Spanish and English) featuring the presentations delivered at the “Frontiers of the Universal” celebration of the enduring power of Francisco J. Ayala’s legacy to foster a more integrated and holistic understanding of our world.
https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/razonyfe/issue/view/1499
Pangea World proudly announces the naming of:
HANA AND FRANCISCO JOSÉ AYALA CENTER FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RELIGION
CÁTEDRA HANA Y FRANCISCO JOSÉ AYALA DE CIENCIA, TECNOLOGÍA Y RELIGIÓN
at the prestigious COMILLAS PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY (Madrid, Spain)
https://www.comillas.edu/catedra-hana-francisco-jose-ayala-ctr
The Act that marked the occasion (Aula P. Pérez del Pulgar, Comillas University, 17 May 2022) can be viewed at:
A related honor: Dr. Hana Ayala’s invited role as the “madrina” of the Comillas University’s Graduation Ceremony on 9 June 2022. To view the Ceremony, and Dr. Ayala’s address, visit:
