The BBVA Foundation considers its scholarship recipients the “Leonardo da Vinci of the 21st century”: 60 people, between the ages of 30 and 45, will receive a maximum of 40,000 euros to be able to develop a personal project. Among the selected candidates are ideas that range from nanorobots fighting cancer to the possibility of analyzing the original manuscripts of Lope de Vega.
The objective of the prize is to finance people with an idea and a specific project, from scientists to artists, in “an intermediate stage of their careers”, according to the foundation. The premise of the scholarship is to allow professionals to grow at a crucial time for their development, a vital and socio-labour situation that until now did not have sufficient financial support – the average age of a Leonard he is 38 years old.
In this edition, 884 applications have been presented and 85 experts have evaluated them in 9 commissions of the Leonardo Network. Of the 60 winners, 32 of the fellows are men and 28 women. Among the winners is María Leunda, from San Sebastian, a researcher at the University of Bern since 2021, where she has expanded the frontiers of paleontology by combining it with molecular biology, and who, thanks to the scholarship, will analyze the changes that global warming has caused in species Pyrenees vegetables.
Another profile is that of the jazz pianist and composer, Lluís Capdevilla, who after a stay in New York, where he obtained a doctorate in Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, now wishes to reinterpret a trio piano album of the work intimate impressions by Frederic Mompou (1893-1987).
Since the creation of award in 2014the Foundation has financed 544 projects and has endowed them with a total of 20 million euros.
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