<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs will award a maximum of €800,000 to private non-profit entities involved in the study, analysis, and implementation of Spanish foreign policy priorities.</strong></h4> The resolution, signed on April 1 by the State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs, Diego Martínez Belío, and published this past Saturday in the Official State Gazette (BOE), establishes that the maximum amount of these grants is €800,000 "distributed among all eligible applicants." Therefore, the same amount for 2023 and 2024 is maintained, and the amount of 625,000 included in the 2022 call is even increased by 28%. The objective of these grants is to promote the study, development of thought, and analysis of the foreign policy of Spain, Europe, and other States and international organizations, as well as the implementation of civil society activities in the implementation of the priority lines of Spanish foreign policy. Beneficiaries are private non-profit entities that have Spanish nationality or have been incorporated under Spanish law, or that, having been incorporated under the law of a third State, have established their headquarters in Spain, and have recognized legal capacity under Spanish law. Furthermore, these entities must include among their statutory purposes the development of activities related to Spanish foreign policy. In line with Spanish foreign policy priorities, priority will be given to projects that focus on areas such as security and defense (challenges and prospects for Spain, European security, NATO, and international security), China and India, the new international landscape (strategies, instruments, tensions), and European Union policy in West Africa and the Sahel. Also considered will be activities related to Spanish foreign policy in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, humanitarian action and diplomacy, conflict prevention, the promotion of international humanitarian law, emergency humanitarian aid and the protection of vulnerable people, cybersecurity, hybrid threats and the fight against disinformation, the global economic landscape, and green diplomacy. In the 2024 call for proposals, the largest individual grant (more than €68,000) went to the Centre for International Information and Documentation in Barcelona (CIDOB, chaired by former Minister and former EU High Representative Josep Borrell), for the project "Summit of the Future; European Union and Strategic Agenda, Indo-Pacific; and Economic Strategy." This think tank also received the most grants, with nearly €162,000 for a total of four projects, including €38,420 (the fifth-largest individual grant in the call for proposals) to fund the initiative "Keys to Interpreting the Global Agenda: CIDOB International Yearbook 2024 Edition." The second-largest individual grant went to the European Council on Foreign Relations Association, with €47,761 for the project "Spain's Contribution to the European Defence and Enlargement Strategy in the New European Cycle." This think tank was the second largest beneficiary, with a total of €121,700 for three projects. The think tank with the most subsidized projects was the Alternativas Foundation, with €116,500 for five initiatives. One of these, entitled "The Situation in West Africa: Implications for Spain and the European Union," was the third largest funder, with €42,000. Among the other organizations, the most notable were the nearly €80,000 for the Elcano Royal Institute (three projects), the €44,277 for the three projects of the FAES Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies, and the nearly €39,000 (fourth individual grant) for the Foreign Policy Analysis Foundation for the publication of the journal "Política Exterior."
