The Juan de la Cierva Scholarship (JdlC) is a Spanish post-doctoral scholarship, funded by the
Spanish Ministry of Science, that allows outstanding young researchers to establish a postdoctoral career in Spanish research institutions.
[1] It is, together with the more senior
Ramón y Cajal Scholarship, the two most prestigious nationally funded research scholarships to follow a scientific career in Spain.
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The scholarship honors the Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva. It started back in 2004 with 350 annual scholarships, [3] and it has been awarded every year since then, to date (January 2023). [4] It has provided 2 to 3 years of funding, depending on its modalities, which have varied over time. [1] [5]
The program offered 3-year contracts with the idea of attracting talent from abroad. [6] The scholarship suffered drastic reductions in funding during the European debt crisis, which seriously affected Spain. In 2012, the funding and positions were reduced a 40%, [7] [8] and their calls delayed. [9] In 2014, [10] the JdlC program was expanded, opening two modalities: the more junior "Formación" with 2 years of contract, and the later "Incorporación", with another 2 years of contract, [1] which in 2017 became 3 years. [11] However, in 2021 the second modality was suppressed again, while at the same time incrementing the funding of the first modality in a 122% [12] [13] using the Next Generation EU funds. [14]
More recently, there have been rising concerns on the program by the scientific community, protesting around its low salaries and employment instability, [5] its discrimination against pregnant women, [15] or its bureaucratic processes. [16]
The scholarship has been funding prestigious researchers in Spain, often bringing them from overseas, across all disciplines, including Biology, [17] [18] Physics, [19] [20] Mathematics, [21] Medicine, [22] [23] History, [24] [25] Social sciences [26] or Engineering. [27] This scholarship has enabled high impact research, such as a number of publications in Nature [28] [29] [30] [31] or Oxford University journals. [32] [33] Some notable Juan de la Cierva scholars are Carolina Mallol, Manlio De Domenico, Mayo Fuster Morell, Eva Miranda or Sílvia Osuna Oliveras.
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The Juan de la Cierva Scholarship (JdlC) is a Spanish post-doctoral scholarship, funded by the
Spanish Ministry of Science, that allows outstanding young researchers to establish a postdoctoral career in Spanish research institutions.
[1] It is, together with the more senior
Ramón y Cajal Scholarship, the two most prestigious nationally funded research scholarships to follow a scientific career in Spain.
[2]
The scholarship honors the Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva. It started back in 2004 with 350 annual scholarships, [3] and it has been awarded every year since then, to date (January 2023). [4] It has provided 2 to 3 years of funding, depending on its modalities, which have varied over time. [1] [5]
The program offered 3-year contracts with the idea of attracting talent from abroad. [6] The scholarship suffered drastic reductions in funding during the European debt crisis, which seriously affected Spain. In 2012, the funding and positions were reduced a 40%, [7] [8] and their calls delayed. [9] In 2014, [10] the JdlC program was expanded, opening two modalities: the more junior "Formación" with 2 years of contract, and the later "Incorporación", with another 2 years of contract, [1] which in 2017 became 3 years. [11] However, in 2021 the second modality was suppressed again, while at the same time incrementing the funding of the first modality in a 122% [12] [13] using the Next Generation EU funds. [14]
More recently, there have been rising concerns on the program by the scientific community, protesting around its low salaries and employment instability, [5] its discrimination against pregnant women, [15] or its bureaucratic processes. [16]
The scholarship has been funding prestigious researchers in Spain, often bringing them from overseas, across all disciplines, including Biology, [17] [18] Physics, [19] [20] Mathematics, [21] Medicine, [22] [23] History, [24] [25] Social sciences [26] or Engineering. [27] This scholarship has enabled high impact research, such as a number of publications in Nature [28] [29] [30] [31] or Oxford University journals. [32] [33] Some notable Juan de la Cierva scholars are Carolina Mallol, Manlio De Domenico, Mayo Fuster Morell, Eva Miranda or Sílvia Osuna Oliveras.
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