The Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MEFP) awards these grants annually. Both general grants and mobility grants are announced simultaneously, the latter for applicants who wish to study in an autonomous region other than their own. Among others, students who are enrolled in master's degree programmes are eligible for these grants. Applications must be submitted through the website of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
In this link of the Spanish Ministry you can find a list with all the grants available for graduates, doctors and university teaching staff. The following are some of the most relevant ones:
The aim of this call is to offer doctoral training grants to those who wish to direct their professional careers towards research and university teaching. The call is integrated into the National Human Resources Training Programme.
Mobility grants are designed to allow postgraduate students enrolled at Spanish universities to carry out academic activities in a location that necessarily involves a change of residence, e.g. another Spanish province or country of the European Higher Education Area.
The aim of these grants is to enable the participation of visiting teaching staff in official master's or doctoral programmes conducted by Spanish public and private non-profit universities.
The FPI subprogram awards grants to enable the scientific training of university graduates who wish to complete a doctoral thesis in any field of knowledge. It offers training opportunities in specific research projects funded by the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation, among others.
The University of Granada has its own Study Grant Fund, aimed at complementing the General Study Grants of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, the Regional Government of Andalusia and other grants from public and private institutions.
Additionally, among other subsidies, the UGR Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund annually awards predoctoral grants and contracts for the training of university lecturers in order to complement the FPU Grants from the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
On the website of the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization you can find calls for international mobility grants aimed at both students and university teaching staff.
The Regional Ministry of Economy, Knowledge, Enterprise and Universities (CECEU) of Andalusia awards the Talentia Grants to Andalusian university graduates wishing to carry out postgraduate programmes abroad at some of the best universities in the world. The Andalusian Knowledge Agency (AAC) manages this programme.
The MAEC-AECID Grants are postgraduate training opportunities for young foreign university graduates awarded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation).
The Iberoamerican University Association for Postgraduate Studies (AUIP) is an international non-governmental organisation recognised by UNESCO. Its aim is to promote postgraduate and doctoral studies in Ibero-America.
The AUIP has a Mobility Grant Programme between Andalusian and Latin American universities.
The main mission of the Commission for Cultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between Spain and the USA is to award Fulbright Grants. These grants allow graduates to study, research or teach either in the USA if they are Spanish or in Spain if they are American.
The Carolina Foundation is a public-private institution that promotes cultural relations and cooperation in educational and scientific matters between Spain and the countries of the Community of Ibero-American Nations (CIN). This organisation offers grants for postgraduate courses and doctoral programmes, as well as for short postdoctoral and continuing training stays. Some of these grants are available for both Latin American and Spanish students.
With the aim of achieving excellence in the research process, the “Ramón Areces” Foundation offers grants to further the training of Spanish postgraduate students at some of the most important research centres of the world.