Call of MAEC-AECID scholarships for cooperation to the development 2014/2015.

Unlike prior years, this year the traditional scholarship calls for Spanish citizens and for foreign citizens have been replaced by a call of cooperation for the development and by another one of culture and education. This way, the decisive criterion it is no longer the nationality, but the thematic areas. With this new organisation, the programmes are better defined, they are more visible and recognisable, and it is allowed for developing more specific projects both in the field of the cooperation for the development and of the culture and education.

The scholarships for Cooperation for the Development are addressed both to Spanish and foreign citizens. Their objective is to give a bigger systematicity to an ensemble of programmes oriented both to the expression of solidarity of the Spanish society with the population of the countries that receive aid from Official Development Assistance, and to the need that that society has of having experts trained in the duties proper to each donor country, in a context of growing sophistication of the cooperation policies. This year, the call contemplates four programmes.

Programme I.1. - Renovation of institutional scholarships for Doctoral studies. It is addressed to the people who already enjoyed a scholarship of the programme III.b of the prior call. The period to present the applications opens on 4 March and ends on 18 March 2014.

Programme I.2. - Scholarships for the master’s degree in Leadership and Public Management of the National Institute of Public Administration and the Menéndez Pelayo International University. They are addressed to public civil servants with the nationality of a country receiving Official Development Assistance. The period to present the applications opens on 4 March and finishes on 20 March 2014.

Programme I.3. - Scholarships for carrying out master’s degree studies at the EOI Business School. They are addressed to people native of the countries receiving Official Development Assistance to carry out studies on “Renewable energies”, Engineering and environmental management” and “Engineering and water management”. The period to present the applications opens on 4 March and finishes on 20 March 2014.

Programme I.4. - Scholarships of postgraduate studies for research and cooperation for the development projects. Without any doubt this is the call newest programme. With it, it attempts to recover university and scientific cooperation for the realization of research projects in development cooperation issues, it also finances researchers enrolled in master and doctoral studies within the framework of a research project between Spanish universities and some of the associated countries of the VI Director Plan of the Spanish Cooperation. The period to present the applications opens on 4 March and finishes on 9 April 2014.

At the AECID electronic site will be available throughout the morning the official call, which can be consulted in the Official Gazette of the Government of Spain. It is recommended a  careful reading of the call.

12 February 2014 resolution by the Presidency of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development, by which the call of MAEC-AECID assistantships in foreign universities for the academic year 2014/2015 is called.

Application form deadlines:

Vacant or new assistantships: From 3 to 17 March.
Renovation assistantships starting between the months of June and October 2014: From 3 to 12 March.
Assistantships renovation starting on January 2015: From 3 to 10 June 2014