IBERDROLA SUPERA AWARDS

We recognise individuals and organisations that promote women's empowerment through sport

As part of our commitment to promoting gender equality, we organise the Iberdrola Supera Awards to recognise and give visibility to the best initiatives in Spain in favour of equality and the empowerment of women through sport.

Iberdrola Supera Awards Objectives

The Iberdrola Supera Awards aim to recognise and support projects, programmes and initiatives that contribute to achieving the following objectives:

To encourage the practice of sport by women.
To provide better facilities and equipment for women's sports.
To generate family, social and educational reconciliation programmes for sportswomen.
To develop initiatives to promote the growth of grassroots women's sport.
To value the successes and give visibility to sportswomen and their competitions, creating new references in society in women's sport.
To promote real equality and empowerment of women in society at large.

Categories of the 2025 Iberdrola Supera Awards

The Iberdrola Supera 2025 Awards, which include six categories, are worth €50,000. The deadline for submitting applications for this year’s Awards ended on 27 June.

A Jury will then select the winning projects. They are sports and media personalities, including the world champion coach of the Spanish national football team, Vicente del Bosque, and the best karate player of all time, Sandra Sánchez.

Recognition and support to that activity, project and/or program that stands out for the promotion of grassroots sports among girls (up to 16 years of age) for the improvement of health, integration and quality of life of people.

This category of the Supera Awards will value the recognition and support of that activity, project and/or program that facilitates the incorporation of women (from the age of 16), into competition, in any of its modalities.

Recognition and support of that activity, project and/or program that is an example of inclusion in the practice of sports for athletes with special abilities.

Recognition and support of activities, projects and/or programs that promote the social integration of women through sports.

Recognition and support of that activity, project and/or program that is a reference in the dissemination of sports practiced by women and contributes to transmit the importance of the role of women in sports and in society.

This category singularly recognizes activities that stand out for the promotion of sport among girls or women in municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants.

Winners of the VI edition of the Supera Awards

More than 1.300 applications were submitted for the 2025 edition by associations, sports clubs and federations, schools, secondary schools and public or private organisations. In the 2025 Supera Awards, the final decision was made by a Jury of Honour selected by the Technical Committee of the Awards and made up of renowned figures such as Vicente del Bosque, Sandra Sánchez, Iker Casillas, Lydia Valentín, Sonsoles Ónega, and Susanna Griso, along with several of the Iberdrola Ambassadors.

The Executive Chairman of the Iberdrola Group, Ignacio Galán, alongside the awardees and Iberdrola Ambassador athletes, such as Alexia Putellas and Carolina Marín.

Base Category: Club Gimnasia Rítmica y Estética Paiporta (Valencian Community)

The Valencian organisation Club Gimnasia Rítmica y Estética Paiporta won the Base category. The project seeks to give girls an environment where sport is a tool for personal growth. Seventy girls are currently involved in aesthetic group gymnastics, 65 of them aged four to 16.

Through aesthetic group gymnastics, they have built a strong community that brings together families, coaches and pupils around values such as respect, teamwork, equality and effort. Moreover, due to the devastating flooding in Spain in October 2024, the club lost its facilities and has had to pause its activities.

With the project ‘Roofless, yet with wings’, the Valencian club dreams of having a space where the 70 girls can continue practising rhythmic and aesthetic group gymnastics.

Competition Category: Dream Team Kukullaga (Basque Country)

The Balonmano Kukullaga club in Etxebarri was selected as the winner of the Competition category for its Dream Team Kukullaga project. The club has an official women’s section in beach handball with more than 70 athletes. One of its players is a world youth champion and several have been selected by the Basque Country to compete in the Spanish Championship for regional teams.

To keep progressing, they need to expand their facilities with a new court to improve training quality and host larger sporting events, generating a positive social and economic impact in the region.

The Basque club has players who compete at the national and regional levels.

Inclusion Category: Club Deportivo Elemental Calipso (Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha)

In the Inclusion category, the award went to the Calipso Basic Sports Club. The club aims to organise events that promote artistic swimming as a means of visibility for people with disabilities and to help other clubs and federations offer this sports and social service. They also want to help their coaches learn sign language so they can share the sport with people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Este club madrileño busca acercar la natación artística a las personas con discapacidad, para que sientan que se les comprende y que tienen la posibilidad de practicar este deporte.

Social Category: CEIP Lope de Vega (Castile and León)

In the Social category, the award went to the state-run education centre CEIP Lope de Vega in León for a project that brings together more than 84 primary school girls, particularly those of Roma origin and from migrant families, to play colpbol.

This sport is based on cooperation, equality and simple motor skills. It promotes teamwork, communication and fair participation, helping every pupil feel like an essential part of the game.

Colpbol has transformed school playgrounds into inclusive spaces, empowering girls and reducing conflict.

Fundación Segunda Parte incorporates sport into the lives of people with neurological damage to improve their health and quality of life

With the 'Adelante, Patina' project, the Murcian club dreams of being able to train in a skating rink so that its athletes can grow and achieve excellence

The Catalan club, which competes at European level, trains on a tennis court that was granted to them and does not have a regulation basketball hoop

Dissemination Category: University of Zaragoza (Aragón)

The University of Zaragoza, through the Fundación Blanca Chair for Athlete Support, has been named winner of the Dissemination category. The chair has developed a project that turns elite women’s competitions into a platform for promoting the mental health of female athletes, women and girls, creating new social role models among the athletes themselves.

The project stems from the need to support elite female athletes, who face high levels of anxiety, depression, eating disorders and a lack of protocols to detect these behaviours in clubs and federations.

The goal of this Aragonese project is to strengthen the mental health of women in sport.

This medium was launched in 2016 and they want to continue to make women's sport more visible. To do so, they need more means, resources and support.

The 'Find your wave' project gives anyone the opportunity to enjoy the sea and make the sea available to all

Rural Category: Club de Mar Castropol (Asturias)

Finally, the Club de Mar Castropol in Asturias was selected as the winner of the Rural category. In 2021, the club created a women’s rowing team with 13 rowers and a cox. The club aim to compete in other national leagues as the only boat from the Principality of Asturias, raise awareness of and promote women’s sport in a discipline as traditionally male-dominated as rowing, and help spread knowledge of a sport deeply rooted in the history of towns along the Cantabrian coast.

This Asturian club takes part in La Bandera de la Kontxa (San Sebastián), the most prestigious regatta in the Cantabrian Sea.

This Galician school seeks to empower girls through judo so that in the future "they won't be afraid of anything". This is the story of the mothers involved in the project

Previous editions of the Iberdrola Supera Awards

Discover the winners of previous editions of the Iberdrola Supera Awards.

Committed to SDG 5

Gender equality -the scope of action of the fifth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal- is one of the Iberdrola Group's core values and forms part of its social dividend. In 2016, with the approval of its Equal Opportunity and Reconciliation Policy, the company was a pioneer in its firm and global commitment to equality and the empowerment of women.

Iberdrola España promotes equal opportunities, work-life balance and the comprehensive development of its employees within the organisation, but also in society. This commitment is materialised through its promotion of women's sports, which it considers to be the ideal vehicle for achieving this goal and which also serves to create female role models in society and to promote healthy lifestyle habits from an early age.