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20th Call for Scholarships for Advanced Studies at Universities and Research Centers Abroad

Scholarships

Academic year 2008/2009 Call closed

Topics of study:

Biomedicine

Chemistry

Physics and mathematics

Climate change

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 2004 and 2008.
  3. Candidates must be admitted in a foreign university or research centre for the 2008/2009 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 2008 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.

  1. Application completed on the form drawn up for this purpose, which will be available on the Ramón Areces Foundation web page.
  2. Documentation that demonstrates that the applicant holds a doctorate degree from a Spanish or foreign university.
  3. Certification of the applicant's academic record, with grades.
  4. Proof of admittance in the foreign university or research centre for the 2008/2009 academic year, which should include assurance that no fees will be payable for the use of the laboratory (bench fees).
  5. 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.
  6. Report on the research the applicant intends to carry out.
  7. A copy of each one of the candidate's publications (up to a maximum of five) referenced in the application form.
  8. Brief Curriculum vitae.
  9. Photocopy of the applicant's National Identification document (D.N.I.) and two passport size photographs.

IV. Place and deadline for submitting applications

The application form, duly completed, the curriculum vitae and the research report should be sent by electronic mail to the following address: becas-ciencias@fundacionareces.es on or before 31 March 2008.

All the documentation requested in section III must be bound and submitted at the address of the Foundation within a maximum deadline that ends on 31 March 2008.

Last date for posting: Postmarked 28 March 2008.

The dossiers must be submitted, complete, within the indicated deadline.

The personal data included in the grant applications and the attached documentation provided with the application will be incorporated in an automated file registered with the Spanish Data Protection Agency by the Ramón Areces Foundation. Applicants give their consent for their personal data to be used for the purpose of processing the scholarship grant requested and to send them informative communications regarding the Foundation's future activities. Applicants may exercise their rights to access, rectify, cancel or oppose the holding of their personal data, pursuant to prevailing legislation, at Fundación Ramón Areces, calle Vitruvio no. 5, Madrid 28006.

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.

VI. Scholarship grant award date

The scholarship grants will be awarded in June 2008.

VII. Other conditions

The awardees of scholarship grants give their consent to the Foundation for their names to appear on the web page and/or in the Foundation's Annual Report.

Applicants undertake to accept whatever decision the Foundation may make, which may not be revoked, under any circumstances, at the request of applicants.

Submission of the application means acceptance and fulfilment, without any reservations or exceptions, of the rules and conditions of the scholarship grant selection process.

 
 
 

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