The purpose of the Juan de la Cierva grant is to encourage the employment of young doctors for a period of two years to complete their postdoctoral research training in Spanish R&D centers other than those in which they carried out their predoctoral training.
Until 2022, this call was referred to as “Juan de la Cierva-Formación”.
In addition to the funding from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the National Agency of Research (MICIU/AEI), several calls has been cofinanced by the European Union through different programmes: