The Diplomat
The Carolina Foundation opened yesterday, coinciding with International Education Day, the call for a total of 504 scholarships aimed at students from Ibero-American countries for the 2021-2022 academic year.
The grants, announced as part of the “Becas de la Cooperación Española” (Spanish Cooperation Scholarships), made up of scholarships from the Carolina Foundation and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID), constitute the 21st edition and are distributed in the following modalities: 225 postgraduate scholarships, 85 doctoral scholarships and short post-doctoral stays, 27 teacher mobility scholarships and 37 institutional study scholarships. To these must be added 130 renewals of doctoral scholarships. This adds up to a total of 153 academic programs, of which 136 are postgraduate.
As explained in a press release, the Carolina Foundation, directed by José Antonio Sanahuja, “the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda are the criterion that has guided the definition of the training offer, and are therefore also used to classify master’s degrees, along with the more traditional classification by scientific areas, following the recommendations of CRUE Spanish Universities to incorporate the 2030 Agenda into the national academic framework.”
“Consequently,” the note adds, “the postgraduate academic offer is organized, as was done in the 2020-21 call, around the areas known as the 5 “P’s”: people, planet, prosperity, peace, justice and institutions, and alliances (partnerships).
It also indicates that in order to facilitate the incorporation of students in a context of health emergency, programs that offer flexibility in teaching have been incorporated into the training offer. For this reason, a hybrid training system has been chosen for the most part.
Another novelty of this call is that, in the institutional scholarship modality, the “Sede Carolina” research stays program has been incorporated, aimed at carrying out or extending research work in the Ibero-American sphere in social sciences, development studies and gender studies.
Finally, the call includes programs aimed at addressing the gender gap that exists in STEM (Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Technology) academic areas, and maintains a significant number of scholarships in areas such as public health, ecological transition, sustainable urban planning and gender equality.
The types of scholarships offered by the Carolina Foundation are as follows:
Postgraduate scholarships. Aimed at the training of graduates from a member country of the Ibero-American Community of Nations, with academic or professional capacity supported by an outstanding curriculum and a vital trajectory of commitment to society.
Doctoral scholarships and short post-doctoral stays. The purpose of the doctoral scholarships is to enable professors from Latin American universities to obtain a doctorate in Spanish academic centers. The short post-doctoral stays scholarships are aimed at professors from Ibero-American universities who hold a doctorate degree.
Teacher mobility programs. These allow a short research stay in Spain for professors or research personnel from Argentinean and Brazilian universities and from the Tordesillas Group of universities.
Scholarships and Institutional Studies Programs. These scholarships are designed to help finance training plans in Spanish centers aimed at strengthening the institutional capacity of Ibero-American public administrations.
Grants for postgraduate studies and institutional studies can be applied for until March 17. Doctoral scholarships, short stays, faculty mobility programs and institutional studies, until April 8. Candidates can find all the information regarding the scholarships on the web www.fundacioncarolina.es
