This year it is expected that Europe finally award some 300 high-level scholarships among all the countries of the European continent. From Europe, the intention is to be able to finance the most worthwhile projects in fields such as engineering, life sciences, humanities and physical sciences, which are the fields that participate in these European scholarships that are so important for researchers who do not have funding. enough.
It is curious to note that among all the scholarship holders, only 15 are Spanish and this is a very low figure compared to the scholarships received by other European countries such as the Netherlands, which will receive twice as many scholarship holders as Spain.
Among all the grants, the final amount that adds up is about 680 million euros for the different projects that researchers with the European grant will start from now on. Finally, the scholarships awarded will be for scholars of 32 different nationalities on this occasion.
They are the high-level scholarships or Advanced scholarships and are granted annually by the European Research Council, so that different researchers have the possibility to continue with their projects thanks to funding. It is in times of crisis that this type of scholarship is most often valued because many research projects need funding to be viable. In any case, they are long-awaited scholarships every year throughout Europe for the help it entails.