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19th Call for Scholarships for Advanced Studies at Universities and Research Centers Abroad in the Field of Natural Sciences

Scholarships

Academic year 2007/2008 Call closed

La Fundación Ramón Areces tiene como objetivo fundamental el patrocinio de proyectos de investigación científica y técnica en España a través de Concursos Nacionales, la formación de jóvenes investigadores, así como el fomento y desarrollo de la educación y de la cultura en general.

Fields of study

Biomedicine

Chemistry

Physics and mathematics

Climatic change

Cultivos marinos

In compliance with these objectives, the Ramón Areces Foundation's Trust has considered it convenient to contribute towards human resources training in our country, by awarding scholarship grants to Spanish doctorate graduates to extend their studies in universities and research centres abroad.

The Ramón Areces Foundation will award twenty-two scholarship grants for studies in universities and research centres abroad, during the 2007/2008 academic year, in subjects related to Natural Sciences. This year's edition is directed at the fields of Biomedicine, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, Climate Change and Marine Sciences.

Biomedicine includes a diversity of issues of maximum current interest, and is the study area in which numerous research groups from the universities and other Spanish research centres come together. For this reason, the Foundation's Scientific Council has continued to include this subject in many of the annual grant programmes, in which a large number of doctorate graduates from the areas of Medicine, Pharmaceutics, Veterinary Science and Biology are taking part. Likewise, the Foundation wants to offer possibilities to young doctorate graduates in the areas of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

In order to open up this edition to other areas of research, the Scientific Council has considered it convenient to offer scholarship grants to doctorate graduates in the fields of Climate Change and Marine Sciences, which are of particular relevance in our country.

Requirements

I. Candidate requirements 

  1. Spanish nationality.
  2. At the time of submitting the application, candidates must hold a doctorate degree from a Spanish or foreign university. In this edition preference will be given to candidates who obtained their doctorate degree between 2003 and 2007.
  3. Candidates must be admitted in a foreign university or research centre for the 2007/2008 academic year.
  4. Candidates must have sufficient knowledge of the English language or the language of the country of destination.

II. Scholarship Grant conditions

  1. The scholarship grant is for a term of one year, renewable for a second year following report from the Foundation's Scientific Council. The scholarship grant will be used between 1 October 2007 and 30 September of the following year.
  2. Funding: 2,000 euros per month.
  3. The Foundation will assume the travelling expenses for economy class air return flights, or equivalent for any other means of transport, from the scholarship holder's permanent place of residence to the foreign study centre.
  4. The Foundation will take out illness and accident insurance cover for the scholarship holder.
  5. The awardees of these scholarship grants will have to sign an Acceptance Agreement, containing the terms, conditions and rules applicable to the use of the scholarship grant.
  6. The scholarship grants referred to in this notice are awarded exclusively for studies at foreign universities or research centres and, therefore, they do not come within the scope of Royal Decree 63/2006 dated 27 January, which approved the Statutes for Trainee Research Personnel (Estatuto del Personal Investigador en Formación), circumstance that the applicant expressly acknowledges in the scholarship grant application form.

III. Documentation

Application completed on the form drawn up for this purpose, which will be available on the Ramón Areces Foundation web page.

A la solicitud se adjuntarán copias en formato PDF (.pdf) de los siguientes documentos:

  1. Photocopy of the applicant's National Identification document (D.N.I.): Documento "DNI (apellido).pdf"
  2. Certification of the applicant's academic record, with grades: Documento "EA (apellido).pdf"
  3. Documentation that demonstrates that the applicant holds a doctorate degree from a Spanish or foreign university: Documento "TDR (apellido).pdf"
  4. Proof of admittance in the foreign university or research centre for the 2012/2013 academic year, which should include assurance that no fees will be payable for the use of the laboratory (bench fees): Documento "JAD (apellido).pdf"
  5. Certificado de conocimiento del idioma inglés o del idioma del país de destino: Documento "CID (apellido).pdf"
  6. Brief Curriculum vitae: Documento "CV (apellido).pdf"
  7. Report on the research the applicant intends to carry out: Documento "MEM (apellido).pdf"
  8. Report from two university professors with whom the applicant has studied, supporting the applicants candidacy. This will also necessarily be accompanied by a report from the professor who directed the candidate's doctoral thesis.: "INFO (apellido).pdf".

Nota: La documentación se entregará encuadernada a excepción de tres de los cuatro ejemplares de la solicitud.

IV. Place and deadline for submitting applications

En la Secretaría de la Fundación entre los días 16-27 de abril de 2007. Por correo, con matasellos fechado antes del día 28 de abril de 2007.

V. Candidate selection

The Foundation will study the applications submitted and will make a preselection. 

Preselected candidates will be called for an interview in order to choose the final awardees of the scholarship grants. All candidates must attend these interviews.

Estas Becas no podrán ser adjudicadas a candidatos que ya estén llevando a cabo ampliación de estudios en centros de investigación en el extranjero.

VI. Scholarship grant award date

June 2007.

See scholarship holders