La Caixa Foundation awards 120 “opportunities for the future”

Oliver became one of them. 120 university students receiving scholarships from the Foundation for postgraduate education abroad. For him, a Fulbright recipient, this will help “create spaces that allow us to develop the talents we have in public and private organisations.” As Prensa Ibérica, a newspaper of the same group, explains to El Periódico de España, he wants, by magic, to “improve people’s performance not only in terms of productivity, but also in terms of their well-being.” Organized by the King and Queen of Spain, the CaixaForum was held in Madrid. Minister of Education and Vocational Education, Column Joy, and the president of the Madrid Assembly, eugenia carballedowas also available.

Each of these 120 scholarships is a “future opportunity” and “promising professional careers,” King Felipe VI reassured students in his speech. “They offer you the opportunity to multiply your talents and potential at world-class university centers.” On average, each scholarship holder has 75,000 Euros for education.

Along with Queen Letizia, Felipe VI delivered each of the scholarships of the fortieth promotion. an extraordinary figure historical trajectory of this aid programthe relevance or success of the project, as well as the firm commitment of the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation, one of the most important in the world and which makes us proud as a country.”

40 years scholarship

This scholarship program has been continuing uninterruptedly since 1982.5,700 people received scholarships from the La Caixa Foundation. Isidro Fainé highlighted the macroeconomic effects of this education, such as increased productivity and the vengeance of wealth.

“But there are others who are closer and more indirect. I mean young scholars are role models for siblings, friends, and other students in environments where such stimuli are out of reach,” he said.

The head of the foundation emphasized that “genius is not born, it is made”. Therefore, having the appropriate environment with such aids and some qualities such as “perseverance and passion” that all scholars have helps them achieve their goals.

Profile of scholarship holders

Of the 120 scholarships awarded, 68 are for study in Europe and 52 in North America. The United States (47) and the United Kingdom (34) are the favorite countries, while the favorite universities are Imperial College London (9), Columbia University (7), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6), ETH Zürich (6 ), Oxford University (5) and Cambridge University (4).

11 applications submitted for each scholarship. Those who receive it have an average age of 24.7 years and come from 29 Spanish provinces, two from Portugal and five from foreign countries. All combined with an outstanding curriculum, volunteerism and desire for education.

The disciplines they choose are different. Most of these are engineering and technology (22), although there are economics and business sciences (9), international relations (7) and up to six music.

One of them Laura BarnHis fellowship allows him to pursue a PhD in Musicology at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna. “I’m examining pianists born in the 19th century and working with Clara Schumann and they are among the first and first to pass the records on to future generations,” he explains to this medium.

There he tries to compare how the music of that century is performed today with the recordings. “Graduating a PhD in Funded Humanities is a very difficult thing today. dir-dir scholarship assumes you have a lot of stability and it has to be done as a main job, not as a hobby,” he says.

copycat syndrome

“You wonder how you got such an incredible scholarship to do the same and hope that at some point they realize the mistake,” he said. Vania de la Fuente-NúñezHe is the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) World Campaign Against Ageism and lead author of the first UN report on ageism.

But no, there is no error. Winner of a scholarship eight years ago, he described his case and above all how he overcame the so-called ‘imposter syndrome’ by avoiding individualism. De la Fuente-Núñez jumped from her medical education to this scholarship. “This much more than financial support; is an unstoppable support platform. You don’t know how many times I’ve been questioned as a doctor and how many times I’ve been questioned for not following chemistry. Global health is seen as the ugly duckling gone wrong. But I didn’t give up,” he said.

She now fights against stereotypes and age-based discrimination in international organizations. It is an example of how far these scholarships can go.