Convocatorias

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 2012 and 2016.
3. Candidates must be admitted in a foreign university or research centre for the 2016/2017 academic year.
4. Candidates must have sufficient knowledge of the English language or the language of the country of destination.

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 2016 and 30 September of the following year.
2.  Funding: 2,200 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.

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

The following documents will be attached to the application in PDF format (.pdf):

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 2016/2017 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".

Los informes de apoyo, así como el del director de la tesis deberán entregarse en sobre cerrado con la solapa firmada en el momento de la entrevista personal.

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 2016. 

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 2016.

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.

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 están destinadas a promover la primera estancia postdoctoral en el extranjero, por lo que no serán candidatos elegibles aquellos que en el momento de la convocatoria hayan realizado una estancia en el extranjero igual o superior a un año.

The scholarship grants will be awarded in June 2016.

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.