Access to higher education in Spain has improved thanks to the numerous options for obtaining grants. It is now very difficult for someone with good academic grades in Spain to be excluded from the university system due to financial reasons. The combined set of grants and aid for the 2008-2009 academic year is worth nearly €1.2 billion, €171.2 million more than the previous year, an increase of 17.1%. Here is a list of all published aid programs:
Grants for degree studies
Grants for students that are going to begin their studies. These are grants for students that are entering university for the first time. If the requirements established in the program are met, a pre-award document is granted that makes the awarding of the grant conditional on successful enrolment into the selected university.
Financial requirements relate to family income and access to different types of grant and amounts are based on the limits established each year: for enrolment, residence, material, urban transport, travel and compensatory or special mobility.
Grants for continuation of studies. Subject to academic and financial requirements. The academic requirements are linked to enrolment for a minimum number of credits, which varies case by case, and are also linked to having passed a percentage of the credits in a previous year(s), established in the conditions for the aid program. The financial requirements, the type of aid and the amounts are the same as for grants for students that are beginning their university studies.
Grants for studying in an autonomous region different to the region of residence. Students, both new and those continuing their studies as indicated in the above two points, may apply for specific mobility grants if they are going to study in a region that is not where they live. This type of aid takes the form of specific amounts that are included within the grants for starting or continuing university studies.
Séneca aid program for mobility between Spanish and European universities. The Séneca program offers grants to read a part of your university studies at a Spanish university different to the one where you are enrolled, for a minimum period of one term and a maximum period of one academic year, with recognition of the credits during this period by the university where you are enrolled. To participate in the program you must have achieved a minimum amount of credits and meet the average academic grade defined in the aid program.
Supplementary aid to the Erasmus program. This is aid from the Spanish state administration that supplements the aid in the European Erasmus program for students that have been selected by universities and higher education institutions to participate in this program. This involves part of the student’s studies being carried out at a European university different to the university where the student is enrolled and the credits from the visited university are duly recognised. The aid is granted directly to universities, which pay it to the beneficiaries of Erasmus grants that are enrolled with them.
Collaboration grants. Grants for final year students, awarded to secure their participation in a department project at the university where they are enrolled. These grants allow students to discover the activities of a university department. The project describes the functions and the work to be carried out by the student, in detail, during the collaboration period, which is a complementary activity to his/her university studies. These grants are mainly conditional on strong academic performance and the evaluation of the project presented by the department in which the student will collaborate.
Faro Collaboration-Grants. Grants for final year students at Spanish universities to carry out internships in companies in Europe, Asia, USA and Canada. Each grant has an average duration of seven months. Candidates are selected based on their merits and the profiles requested by companies in the offers that they register in the program. All internships are supervised by a tutor.
Grants for master studies
Grants for students that are going to begin their studies. Grants for undertaking university master studies that are subject to academic and financial requirements. The academic requirements are linked to enrolment for a minimum number of credits, which varies case by case, and applicants must have passed a percentage of the credits in a previous year(s), established in the conditions for the aid. The financial requirements, the type of aid and the amounts are the same as for grants for students that are beginning university studies.
Grants for studying in an autonomous region different to the region of residence. Aimed at students that wish to study a master course in an autonomous region other than where they live. The grants are subject to the same academic and financial requirements as those indicated for degree graduates. This type of aid takes the form of specific amounts that are included in the general and mobility grants program.
Grants for mobility between universities. This aid is for students that are enrolled in Spanish universities to facilitate the academic activities of a master course undertaken in a province that is different to where the student is enrolled, or if appropriate, in other countries of the European Higher Education Area. The minimum duration of the stay will be one week and the maximum is 16 weeks.
The following academic requirements must be fulfilled in order to apply for the aid: enrolled in the academic course for which the aid is offered; enrolled in the master for which the mobility aid is requested; and have an academic record with an average grade in previous studies that are required to access the master course indicated in the aid program.
Mobility aid for students on university master courses from the USA These are grants for taking master courses in social sciences and humanities in universities in the USA by Spanish graduates that have qualifications in these fields. The program is carried out in collaboration with the Fulbright Commission.
To access the grants, applicants must hold a qualification that allows them to enrol for a master course and their academic record must meet an average minimum level. Excellent command of the English language is also required.
Grants for doctorate studies
Grants for training university lecturers. These grants are designed to train doctors in training and research programs in any field of scientific knowledge that facilitates their future incorporation into the Spanish higher education and scientific research system.
The aid has a maximum duration of 48 months, with the first 24 months under a grant format and the last 24 months with an internship employment contract. To apply for these grants, applicants require a specific minimum grade in their academic record and must be enrolled in a doctorate program at a Spanish university.
Grants for training researchers. Grants for university graduates that wish to carry out a doctoral thesis related to specific R&D projects financed by the National R&D+i plan. The aid has a maximum duration of 48 months, with the first 24 months under a grant format and the last 24 months with an internship employment contract.
To obtain the grant, applicants must accredit that they hold the qualification that allows them to apply for third cycle education or official postgraduate studies, or they must have fulfilled the requirements that give access to these.
Training grants for doctors in the European University Institute of Florence. Aid for grants and doctor training contracts in the areas of human and social sciences, history, law, economy and political and social sciences as part of the Salvador de Madariaga Program, through which applicants must hold a degree or equivalent qualification in the field of law, economics-business studies, politics-sociology or humanities, in order to carry out a doctorate in these fields.
The aid has a maximum duration of 48 months, with the first 24 months under a grant format and the last 24 months with an internship employment contract. Applicants must have Spanish nationality or must reside in Spain if nationals from another EU country. They must be fluent in Spanish and at least one other official language of the European Union, preferably English or French.
Grants for mobility between universities. This aid aims to encourage students to join doctorate programs that have received or renewed the “Mención de Calidad” (Quality Mention) accreditation. Joining such a program will require a change in the residence of the student by joining the destination university.
The aid can also be applied for by students that are enrolled in a doctorate program that has “Mención de Calidad” accreditation, in order to carry out stays in other Spanish universities provided that the stay relates to academic activities included in the doctorate program and they are carried out in a province that is different to the province where the student’s home university is located, or if appropriate, in other countries of the EHEA and that require a change of habitual or family residence.
Grants to obtain the “Doctor Europeus” mention in the qualification of Doctor. The purpose of this aid is to promote the “Doctor Europeus” mention in doctorate qualifications by doctorate students that are enrolled in Spanish universities, providing aid to carry out stays in centres of the European Union and the EHEA, other than in Spain.
Students must be enrolled in the thesis supervision period in a doctorate program in a public or a non-profit private Spanish university and must be resident in Spain. The minimum duration of the stay is three months.
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