The call Juan de la Cierva 2024 is now open

Submit your application and start researching at the BCBL

  • Funding entity: Spanish Government through Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)
  • State Plan: State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2024-2027
  • Program: State Human Resources Program
  • Subprogram: State Subprogram for Training, Attraction and Retention of Research and Innovative Talent
  • Status of the call: Open
  • Application Deadlines:
    1. Deadline for participants (form completion): 17/12/2024 - 17/01/2025 at 2:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time)
    2. Deadline for entities (signature and submission of application): 17/12/2024 - 24/01/2025 at 14:00 (Spanish peninsular time)
  • Application process: candidates contact a specific Group Leader (GL) from BCBL by December so the GL can consider sponsoring their application
  • General description:
    1. The Juan de la Cierva grants are intended to encourage the incorporation of young people, in possession of a doctoral degree, in order to complete their postdoctoral research training in Spanish R&D centers. Participants must meet the requirement of holding a doctoral degree and have obtained it between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024 for the general access shift and for the JDC-INIA-CCAA shift and between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024 for the access shift for people with disabilities equal to or greater than 33 percent, except if they accredit a cause for interruption according to the call.
    2. The applications for participation are submitted by the R&D centers including in them the participants for their incorporation to the research teams. The selection is based on a competitive process based on their curricular merits and on the scientific-technical record of the research team in which they wish to join, giving special relevance to the merits related to the tutor researcher.