Eduardo González
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) has launched the call for applications for the MAEC-AECID Scholarship programs for the 2024-2025 academic year, for which citizens from Latin American, African and Asian countries may apply and for which a total amount of more than 4.5 million euros will be allocated.
“The MAEC-AECID scholarship and assistantship programs, in their seventy-seventh edition, have established themselves as one of the most precious instruments of Spanish foreign policy,” according to the Resolution of the Presidency of the AECID approving the call, signed on December 22 by the director of the Agency, Antón Leis.
The purpose of this call is to grant aid for the training of citizens of partner countries of Spanish Cooperation, countries receiving Official Development Assistance or countries of interest for Spain’s international relations. The budget allocation for this call amounts to 4,523,207.00 euros, to be distributed between the years 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027.
The call, published this past Tuesday by the Official State Gazette (BOE), includes five programs, including postgraduate scholarships (MASTER) to complete an in-person master’s degree in Spain and aimed at training public employees in Latin America and the Philippines; and the Africa-MED scholarships for training and research stays in Spain and intended for citizens of African and Middle Eastern countries. These two programs, included in the bilateral strategies of the current Spanish Cooperation Master Plan, are, by far, the best budgeted, with more than two million euros in the first case and more than 1.6 million euros in the second. case of Africa-MED.
Likewise, the call includes scholarships to carry out the Diplomatic School program, intended for citizens of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines and (as a novelty compared to the previous edition) Ukraine to carry out the Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Diplomacy and International Relations; the MUSIC program for Ibero-American citizens at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music; and the ASALE program, to carry out a master’s degree in Hispanic lexicography and collaborative training stays at the headquarters of the Spanish Language Academies associated with the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), aimed at citizens of Latin America, the United States, Equatorial Guinea and the Philippines .
