The student from the University of Valencia Candela Saiz Carrasco has been awarded a grant within the “Programa de Jovenes Lideres Iberoamericanos” (Program of Iberoamerican Young Leaders), which is being held this month in Madrid, Santiago de Compostela and Brussels. The scholarship is awarded by the Fundacion Carolina, Grupo Santander and Fundacion Rafael del Piano to the 50 best Iberoamerican, Portuguese and Spanish university graduates.
For two weeks, the grantees will complete an intense work agenda compiled by visits, meetings, conferences and encounters with the main characters from the political, entrepreneurial and cultural world in Spain and in the European Union, among them Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Joaquin Almuria, vice-principal and European Competition Commissioner-in-Office; and Antonio Brufau, Repsol’s president.
The main aim of this scholarship is to give the Iberoamerican emerging leaders a better and deeper knowledge of the Spanish and European reality as well as creating bonds between Iberoamerican leaders so that they can be introduced into the future with a greater closeness between these nations. They also aim to propel the Iberoamerican process of integration added to the role of Spain as a connection between Latin American and Europe.
Candela Saiz Carrasco (Godella, 1989) is graduated in Political and Public Administration Sciences by the University of Valencia with Extraordinary Prize of Degree. She was an Erasmus student in Lyon (France) and an International one at Rutgers University (USA). She has also done the Erasmus Practicum Program in Basel (Switzerland). In 2012-2013 she took the Master’s Degree in International Relations by the London School of Economics and Political Science thanks to the European Postgraduate scholarship of La Caixa. In 2013-2015, she took the Master’s Degree in International Development in the Sciences Po Paris. She has worked as a grantee in the Spanish Embassy in Morocco (2010) and in Transcend International- NGO for peace and development (2011). Journalist on economic and social topics in the ‘Journal international de Lyon’ (2010-2012), she also carried out a research project (2013-2014) with the CIRAD (Institute of Research on Agriculture and Development from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education in France) on cooperation politics in emerging countries in Africa.
Last update: 14 de july de 2014 11:35.
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