Museo del Prado Research Scholarships (Madrid)

Centro de Estudios, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain, September 01, 2016
Application deadline: May 7, 2016

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR TWO FUNDACIÓN GONDRA BARANDIARÁN-MUSEO DEL
PRADO RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS

The Fundación Gondra Barandiarán and the Museo Nacional del Prado have
signed an agreement allowing the two institutions to jointly sponsor a
program consisting of two remunerated scholarships for researchers
involved with any aspect of art history related to the Museo del
Prado’s collections.
This agreement stipulates the awarding of two scholarships: a senior
scholarship for researchers over the age of 40, and a junior
scholarship for those beneath that age. These scholarships will be
funded by the Fundación Gondra Barandiarán and will have a maximum
duration of three months each. The two scholarships will be carried out
at the Museo del Prado’s Centro de Estudios (Research Center) in the
Casón del Buen Retiro, beginning in September 2016.
The scholarships will be awarded following a competition based on the
principles of objectivity, transparency, equality, non-discrimination
and public access.

Provision
The senior scholarship is endowed with 9,000€ (nine thousand Euros),
consisting of 3,000€ (three thousand Euros) per month for a maximum of
three months. The junior scholarship is endowed with 6,000€ (six
thousand Euros), consisting of 2,000€ (two thousand Euros) per month
for a maximum of three months.

Requirements

Applicants for the senior scholarship must be a least forty years old,
with a doctorate in Art History or a related area of the Humanities and
an established academic-professional career. Applicants for the junior
scholarship must be less than forty years old, be doctoral candidates
at the time of this application or have defended their dissertation in
the last ten years. Applicants for both categories must be up to date
on their tax and Social Security payments and not legally or otherwise
barred from receiving subsidies (see section VII of the application
form).

Beneficiary obligations
Selected candidates must communicate their acceptance of the
scholarship by e-mail within seven days of the announcement of results.
They accept the commitment to participate in academic life at the
Centro de Estudios by attending the Escuela del Prado’s courses and
seminars whenever their research work allows them to. The senior
scholarship holder must also be willing to guide and advise the
recipient of the junior scholarship and other scholarship holders at
the Centro de Estudios. The senior scholarship holder will also present
his or her research project in a public conference at the Museo’s
auditorium. That presentation can be made in the candidate’s native
language. The Junior scholarship holder will be able to take part in
the work of the department with which his or her research subject is
related, whenever that work is complementary to said research.
Upon completion of the scholarships, their holders will have a maximum
of one month to turn in a Report indicating whether they have met the
initial projections and reached their planned goals. Furthermore, the
Fundación Gondra Barandiarán and the Museo del Prado must appear
whenever the reception of these scholarships is mentioned in their
Curricula Vitae or professional careers.

Application procedures and required documentation
Applications will be carried out via the inscription form available on
the Museo del Prado’s webpage:
https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/escuela-del-prado/becas/convocatorias.

They must be sent via e-mail to becas@museodelprado.es with the
heading: “Convocatorias de Becas Fundación Gondra Barandiarán – Museo
del Prado”, and the indication “senior” or “junior”. The deadline for
presenting applications is May 7, 2016.
Applications may be written in French, English or Italian, or
preferably in Spanish. The following original, authenticated or
certified documents must be included:
- Valid identity card or passport of the applicant
- Academic transcript issued by the university, indicating courses and
grade point average (only for junior scholarship applicants)
- Doctoral diploma in Art History or a related field in the Humanities
- Curriculum vitae, including the applicant’s contact information,
address, telephone and e-mail address
- Written project (maximum, 1,000 words) describing proposed research,
goals to be met during the scholarship period and how the Museum and
Centro de Estudios’s resources will be used to meet those goals.
- Tentative timetable for the work to be carried out, including
possible travel, although travel grants or aids are not included in the
scholarship funding.
- Letter of recommendation from a museum professional (excluding
employees of the Museo Nacional del Prado) and another from an academic
(a university professor, a member of a research institute, etc.)
- Documents certifying that tax and Social Security payments are up to
date, or a written promise to furnish such documents if the applicant
is awarded the scholarship. Applicants whose fiscal residence is not in
Spanish territory need only provide an original certification of fiscal
residence issued by the competent authorities in their country of
residence, or a written promise to furnish such documents if they are
awarded the scholarship (see section VII of the application form).
- Affidavit by the applicant indicating that he or she is not in any
way barred or prohibited from receiving the scholarship (see section
VII of the application form).
- Documentation that supports the merits alleged in the application.
Merits not duly documented will not be considered.

Criteria for selection and evaluation:
1. Academic training, professional experience, publications and
previous scholarships and prizes (50%)
2. Project presented, describing the subject of the research to be
carried out with an indication of objectives and how the Museum and
Centro de Estudios’s resources will be used (50%).

The final decision will indicate both the candidates that have been
selected and the express rejection of other applications.
Further information, the text of the complete notice and the
application form:
https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/escuela-del-prado/becas/convocatorias

http://www.pap.minhap.gob.es/bdnstrans/GE/es/convocatoria/504406