The University of Deusto organizes the Ignacio Ellacuria Award to the best PhD thesis in the University of Deusto. On January 28th, 2015, this award was given to two people: Carmen Moral and MORElab member Pablo Orduña for his PhD Transitive and Scalable Federation Model for Remote Laboratories.

MORElab member Pablo Orduña (left), and former MORElab member Aimar Rodriguez, also awarded with the best Computer Science student Award.