Education and Fellowships

Equality between women and men is not just a matter of justice, but also of economic and social progress. This is the view of Professor Almudena Sevilla (Valladolid, 1973), who has dedicated her career to researching economics and gender, as well as ...

The "la Caixa" Foundation has selected 29 new biomedical research projects of excellence with a high social impact as part of the CaixaResearch Health Call 2024, endowed with 25.7 million euros, so that they can be conducted in research centres, ...

“Those who do not develop computational thinking are going to be illiterate," warns María Teresa Cornejo, a teacher in the ProFuturo programme in Arequipa, Peru. This project of the Telefónica Foundation and the "la Caixa" Foundation puts technology ...

Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, director of the SJD MIND Schools programme at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and president of the Sant Pau Research Foundation (FISP), Miquel Casas studies the relationship ...

Ana Escorza and Michael Abdul-Masih analyse stars at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. They met in Belgium, got married in Chile and now, thanks to the "la Caixa" Foundation’s Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships, are working in Spain to ...

On our blue planet, less than 1% of the Earth’s water is available for human use, a situation that is set to worsen with climate change, according to the UN. Clearly, the management, distribution and storage of this strategic resource are at the ...

The Fellowships programme of the "la Caixa" Foundation has boosted the academic careers of more than 6,000 excellent students and researchers throughout its more than 40-year history. With this major milestone, the programme reaffirms its support ...

Kaori Mutsuda Zapater (Barcelona, 1996) is a biotechnologist. Thanks to a postgraduate fellowship abroad from the "la Caixa" Foundation, she is studying for her PhD in Kyoto, in a new faculty dedicated to finding solutions to ensure human survival. ...

105 researchers will develop their projects in Spain and Portugal thanks to the 65 fellowships awarded in the framework of the doctoral INPhINIT programme and the 40 of the postdoctoral Junior Leader programme.