Several awards for distinguished works and scientists were chosen by the ALAGE Awards Committee, in this opportunity the winners were:

• Ruth Gall Award: This award is given to a distinguished researcher who has collaborated significantly with more than one scientific group from Latin American Institutions despite the fact that he/she was not affiliated to any Latin American Institution in this ocasion was given to Dr. William Matthaeus.

• Mario H. Acuña Award: The Mario H. Acuña Prize is awarded to a distinguished scientist, employed by an education and/or research institution in Latin America, whose work has been outstanding to create scientific infrastructure for research in Space Science (terrestrial or on board of spacecrafts) in one or more countries of the region. The Mario Acuña prize was shared Award between Dr. Mangalathayil Ali Abdu and Dr. José Francisco Valdés Galicia and the prize was delivered by Mario Acuña older sister Felicitas.

• Roberto Manzano Award: This award is given to the best contribution presented in COLAGE that has a student as the first author. The selected winners where:

– M.V. Sieyra from IATE, UNC-CONICET, Argentina, with the paper: Do Sunspots bubble? (oral presentation); received the book

–Cecilia Mac Cormack from IAFE-CONICET, Argentina, with the paper: Scaling-lows of quiet sun coronal loops (poster presentation)

–Fredson Santos from UNIVAP, Brazil, with the paper: Occurrence and simulation of sporadic E layers near the equatorial ionization and South Atlantic Magnetic anomaly (poster presentation)

–G.A.S. Picanço from INPE, Brazil, with the paper: Influence of the temporal resolution of averaged TEC values on the accuracy of the disturbance Ionosphere Index (poster presentation)