The Diplomat
The State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs is going to grant a maximum amount of 625,000 euros to subsidize private non-profit entities that participate in the study, analysis and implementation of Spanish foreign policy priorities.
The resolution, signed on July 7 by the State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs, Ángeles Moreno Bau, and published yesterday in the Official State Gazette (BOE), establishes that the maximum amount of these grants is 625,000 euros “distributed among all applicants who are beneficiaries”. Therefore, the amount of 800,000 euros contained in the previous year’s call is reduced by 28% and the amount offered in 2020 is recovered.
The objective of these grants is to promote the realization of civil society projects that “are in line with the aims and guidelines of Spanish foreign policy”, with special attention to areas such as security and defense (challenges and prospects for Spain, European security, NATO and international security), the Mediterranean and the Arab world, China and the Indo-Pacific, the European Union, Africa (Maghreb, Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa), human rights, rule of law and democracy promotion, gender equality and feminist foreign policy, the challenges of multilateralism in the current international context, Spain’s reputation and image, Spanish foreign policy in Ibero-America and the Caribbean, Spanish in the world, the global economic outlook (including economic warfare as a new instrument of international pressure), cybersecurity, hybrid threats and the fight against disinformation.
In the 2021 call, the main beneficiary was Fundación Alternativas, with 120,125 euros for four projects, followed by the Elcano Royal Institute, with 112,720 euros for six projects. This was followed by the Fundación Centro Internacional de Toledo para la Paz (Toledo International Center for Peace Foundation, CITPAX), with just over 81,500 euros for three projects, and the Fundación CIDOB, with just over 93,000 euros for four projects.
