The Diplomat
The Secretary of State for Global Spain is going to grant a maximum amount of 800,000 euros to subsidize private non-profit entities involved in the study, analysis and implementation of Spanish foreign policy priorities.
The resolution, signed on September 14 by the State Secretary for Global Spain, Miguel Muñiz, and published this week in the Official State Gazette (BOE), establishes that the maximum amount of these subsidies, “aimed at financing the holding of activities of interest for the development of Spanish foreign policy in the area of competence of the State Secretary for Global Spain”, will be 800,000 euros, distributed among all the applicants who are beneficiaries. This amount exceeds by 28% the 625,000 euros of the previous year’s call for proposals.
The beneficiaries of these grants will be private non-profit entities whose statutory purposes include the development of activities related to Spanish foreign policy, and which meet the conditions and have the appropriate experience to guarantee the fulfillment of these objectives. In addition, the entities must have Spanish nationality, have been incorporated under Spanish law or, having been incorporated under the law of a third State, have their headquarters in Spain. In addition, they must have recognized legal capacity under Spanish law.
The main beneficiary of the 2020 grants (called at the end of September also by Global Spain and approved just two months later) was the Elcano Royal Institute in all aspects, both in the number of projects (six), the total amount allocated (153,390 euros) and the amount of its two main projects (55,000 euros for the Publications on various dimensions of Spanish foreign policy and 48,150 euros for the Country Reptrack Report, the basis of the System of Indicators of the Distance between Image and Reality, SIDIR).
The second most benefited Think Tank was the Fundación Alternativas, with a total of 138,000 euros for five projects on Southern Neighborhood, Africa-EU relations, EU Health or the impact on Spain of the new cycle in the USA. Apart from that, the Toledo International Center for Peace Foundation (CITPAX), went from more than 164,000 euros for three projects in 2019 (it was the most subsidized organization in that fiscal year) to just 82,000 euros, half, also for three projects in 2020. Another of the other major beneficiaries in this type of subsidies, the CIDOB Foundation, obtained in 2020 almost 90,000 euros for four projects.
