of machine translation sponsored by Telefónica. Since its launch, demand has steadily increased monthly to 55%, and it has performed more than 582,000 free translations. The Cervantes Institute's purpose in creating this service was to facilitate the access of Spanish to those information technology contents developed in other languages, and so people who speak other languages can have access to contents that are only available in Spanish. This service permits translation of texts and text files, as well as web pages, from Spanish to Catalan, French, Galician, English or Portuguese and vice versa. The pairs of language percentages used are as follows: English–Spanish, 23.47% of the total; Spanish–Catalan, 21.12%; Spanish–English, 13.64%; Portuguese–Spanish, 12.63%; Spanish–Portuguese, 10.39%; Catalan–Spanish, 6.48%; Spanish–French, 6.24%, and French–Spanish, 6.03%. Publications Since 1998, the Instituto Cervantes has published the annual El español en el mundo highlighting the state of Spanish in the world, and current trends. The Instituto has also run the Internet-based Centro Virtual Cervantes since 1997. Recognition In 2005, along with the Alliance française, the Società Dante Alighieri, the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, and the Instituto Camões, the Instituto Cervantes was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for outstanding achievements in communications and humanities. Locations The Instituto Cervantes has developed its educational project on a system of local institutions and centres: Centros Cervantes (full-fledged centres) Aulas Cervantes (smaller "lecture halls") Network of Centros Acreditados and Centros Asociados A representative list follows, the most recent and complete list can be found at www.cervantes.es. Centros Cervantes Africa (Algiers, Oran) (Cairo, Alexandria) (Casablanca, Fes, Rabat, Tangier, Tétouan, Marrakesh) (Tunis) Americas (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Curitiba) (Albuquerque, Boston – Boston University, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle – University of Washington) Asia (Beijing, Shanghai) (New Delhi) (Tokyo) (Manila, Makati) (Seoul) Europe (Vienna) (Brussels) (Sofia) (Prague) (Bordeaux, Lyon, Paris, Toulouse) (Berlin, Bremen, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Munich) (Athens) – the original Athens Cervantes Institute opened in 1992; in March 2010, Greek-born Queen Sofía of Spain opened its new building. (Budapest) (Dublin) – (Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome) (Utrecht) (Warsaw, Kraków) (Lisbon) (Bucharest) (Moscow) (Belgrade) (Stockholm) (Leeds, London, Manchester) Middle East (Nicosia) (Tel Aviv) (Amman) (Beirut, Kaslik, Tripoli) (Damascus) (Istanbul) Oceania (Sydney – Instituto Cervantes Sydney) Aulas Cervantes Africa (Annaba, Tlemcen) (Nador) Asia (Jakarta) (Kuala Lumpur) (Hanoi) Europe (Sofia) (Zagreb) (Bratislava) (Liubliana) Centros Acreditados Asia Centros Asociados Europe (Cork) – see University College Cork, Department