COMUNICATION

Yuste Foundation opens the deadline for applications for ten Carlos V European Award -Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe – European Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies. The subject of this edition is “Culture, Heritage, History and Memory for the Promotion of European Values, Integration and Peace”. (15/06/2022)

The grants are addressed to those who are enrolled in the doctoral programme of a university of the countries admitted as eligible in this call and are in the preparation phase of the doctoral thesis in History, Political Science, Economics, Law, and other disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as other branches of science, on a subject related to the object and orientation established in the call.

The Carlos V European Award European Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies deal with history, memory and European integration taking the profile of the person, institution, project or initiative awarded in each edition – whom the topic and priorities of research are defined with from a multidisciplinary perspective – as a framework and priority.

In the 13^th edition, the jury of the Award decided that the Award should be delivered to the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe for its work promoting and making possible the European values of cultural diversity, respect for their respective identities, intercultural dialogue and the exchange and knowledge about countries and History. It also expressed its appreciation of the work they are doing to promote cooperation in research and development; the enhancement of European memory, history and heritage; cultural and educational exchanges for young Europeans; contemporary cultural and artistic practice and cultural tourism. It also highlighted the image and position of Europe that is projected by the Cultural Routes abroad and its relations with the rest of the world.

Each grant has an individual endowment of 2,500 euros in order to cover the study and research for the preparation of the papers that shall be submitted within the framework of the Carlos V European Award Doctoral Seminar of Multidisciplinary Studies on Contemporary Europe, which will take place at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste; the preparation of the research work carried out within the framework of the call, which will be published in a joint work by Yuste Foundation, and the mobility of researchers to carry out their research work.

Those interested can apply for a grant until the 27^th of July by completing the form published in the following link: https://www.fundacionyuste.org/en/carlos-v-european-award-grants/ and  then submitting it, along with the required documentation, to: becas@fundacionyuste.org