By Angeles Medina and Carmen Simon | Apadrina la Ciencia members
Dear supporters,
We hope you are enjoying this holidays season and face the present and future with optimism and energy, just the way we try to do thanks to your generous contribution.
We are pleased to share some stimulating updates on our ongoing efforts. Our focus on scientific research and science dissemination has led us to develop new initiatives aimed at fostering international scientific collaborations and scientific stays in Spain. To this end, we launched the first call for grants aimed at PhD students and early-career postdoctoral researchers from developing regions with limited financial resources for research and education in India, Latin America and Africa. The grant covers flights, living expenses and health insurance, as well as travel expenses.
In the first call the two beneficiaries -from Mali and Nigeria- will join a Spanish research institution for 9-12 months to work on malaria transmission and climate change. We are convinced that this type of program will have a positive social impact in terms of education, knowledge and welfare not only for the host institution but also for their home institutions, where they will put in practice new scientific abilities and cutting-edge methodologies in the fields of genetics and environment. Most importantly, it will open up possibilities for future scientific collaborations among international research groups.
From Apadrina la Ciencia we strongly believe that the collaboration between African and Spanish scientists offers outstanding benefits. Joint research can help address global challenges, such as public health, climate change or agriculture, which are essential to advance scientific knowledge and contribute to broader social, economic and cultural development. This is the why we are striving to secure funding to continue with this exciting program.
Once again, thank you so much for being part of this important journey. We encourage you to spread the word about our mission so that even more people can get involved and help us continue with our activities.
We take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year filled with joy, love, peace and... science ;)
By Maria Jose Rodriguez | PhD and Associate of Apadrina la Ciencia
By Isabel Salado | Recipient of a one-year contract to finish her PhD
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