The Diplomat
This week, the Carolina Foundation opened its new call for scholarships corresponding to the 2024-2025 academic year, in which 669 scholarships are offered for a total of 185 academic programs focused on social impact and gender equality.
Of the total of 669 scholarships offered for this 24th edition, 251 correspond to postgraduate scholarships aimed at the training of graduates from a member country of the Ibero-American Community of Nations, one hundred to doctoral scholarships and short postdoctoral stays to facilitate teachers and staff researcher from Latin American universities to obtain a doctorate in Spanish centers, promoting the creation of scientific networks between institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, and 106 to renew doctoral scholarships.
Likewise, 36 will correspond to faculty mobility scholarships to facilitate a short research stay in Spain for teachers or research staff from Argentine, Brazilian universities and the Tordesillas Group of Universities (an academic network of universities from Brazil, Portugal and Spain) and 176 to institutional study scholarships to finance training plans in Spanish centers (Latin American, in the case of the new program with the CSIC) that tend to strengthen the institutions of Latin American public administrations.
The call adds a total of 185 academic programs. Among the new features of this edition, the Carolina Foundation includes in its call the mobility program for research stays at the Higher Scientific Research Council (CSIC), which offers 20 scholarships, ten to carry out research in research centers of the Council and another ten for research centers and universities in Latin America.
Likewise, the Foundation consolidates its commitment to scholarships focused on social impact and gender equality by introducing some measures to correct gender inequalities that are observed both in the more general field of higher education and in some programs or specific areas in which such measures were necessary.
The call maintains its adaptation to the five Ps of the 2030 Agenda: people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships. With this, it offers training and research opportunities for all the Sustainable Development Goals: sustainable technologies, public health, renewable energies, quality education, inclusive economic studies, human rights, social cohesion and improvement of public policies, or digital humanism, promoting equal opportunities between women and men and in society as a whole.
The Carolina Foundation is a public-private institution for the promotion of cultural relations and cooperation between Spain and the countries of the Ibero-American Community of Nations, particularly in the scientific, cultural and higher education fields. It functions as a unique instrument of Spanish cooperation in favor of scientific progress, institutional strengthening and academic mobility to promote the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.
