2023-06-21 01:44:36
He Department of Education will allocate 28.5 million to the granting of university scholarships in the next 2023-2024 course through two support lines: one to finance the studies in themselves and another with less endowment (100,000 euros) for transport costs of students with mobility difficulties.
In the press conference held after the Governing Council, the Basque Minister of EducationJokin Bildarratzexplained that the budget for scholarships -of which almost 10,500 students benefited last year- can be increased if necessarysince they will be granted to all students who meet the requirements.
expedite scholarships
education has been marked the objective of expediting the processing so that all requests receive a response throughout the first quarter of the course and the students can collect the scholarship before the end of the year.
Application period open from June 30
The application period will be open from June 30 to September 15 and requests will be resolved in order of request, thus encouraging them to be submitted and answered as soon as possible. The processing will be entirely electronic.
The line of scholarships linked to the studies will have an endowment of 28.8 million that will be used to help pay for tuition, the purchase of a computer, books and other necessary materialinterurban displacement and the residence (in this case the aid increases by 100 euros in relation to last year).
These scholarships, which They can be requested both if you study in the Basque Country or at a university in another autonomous communityThey also include a basic amount linked to family income and students who achieve good academic results are also rewarded.
11.2 million for researchers
The counselor has also reported the call for aid for the academic year 2023-2024 for the training and improvement of research staff through pre-doctoral contracts for a value of 11.2 million euros, which represents a 12.8% increase compared to the previous call.
The objective of these grants is to promote the training of researchers to obtain the Doctorate degree and the acquisition of skills related to quality scientific research, within a Doctorate Program.
The call includes both the granting of new grants and the renewal of those granted in previous calls. Specifically, 2.5 million will be for new aid and 7.9 for renewals.
the next academic year 409 researchers will have a pre-doctoral contract: 299 will be renewals and 110 new grants. In the current academic year 2022-2023 there are 380 researchers who are beneficiaries of these pre-doctoral contracts.
On the other hand, the Department of Education will launch another line of aid within the Postdoctoral Program for the improvement of research personnel who are already doctors.
The budget for the period 2023-2026 will be 5.4 million that will allow these doctors to have a contract with a Basque entity dedicated to research for a maximum of four years.
During this academic year, 71 postdoctoral researchers have received this aid (26 were new applications and 45 renewals). In the next academic year there will be 88 active postdoctoral researchers thanks to these grants.
other lines
The counselor has also announced the call for meetings ikasiker scholarshipsaimed at university students interested in collaborating in research tasks and endowed with 330,000 euros that will allow the awarding of 90 scholarships.
The Governing Council has also approved at its meeting on Tuesday the subsidies to Private Music Schools and Authorized Professional Music Centers to finance their costs with a budget of 2.5 million. In Euskadi there are 47 centers of these characteristics, with nearly 12,000 students.
On the other hand, the Department of Bildarratz will allocate almost half a million euros to collaborate with non-profit entities so that Roma students improve their academic performance, to increase the number of these students who achieve school success and to achieve greater participation of their families in meetings or activities at the center.
The Executive has also agreed today to subsidize 1.2 million to subsidized centers that take part in the Ulibarri Program for linguistic normalization, whose objective is to increase the use of Basque in the day-to-day life of the educational community.
In this academic year 2022-2023 there are 408 schools that participate in this program: 231 public and 177 subsidized.
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