”la Caixa” Banking Foundation is a Spanish non-profit organization whose mission is to contribute towards the progress of people and society. Its main lines of action are to provide opportunities for the most vulnerable groups; to support progress through educational, scientific and cultural activities; to contribute towards greater understanding and improvement of the environment; to promote research in the fields of life sciences, healthcare, social sciences and humanities; and to foster the dissemination of science and technology.
Since 1982, ”la Caixa” Foundation has offered its fellowships programmes—through which more than 4,000 talented young people have received fellowships to take up postgraduate studies or begin their research careers in Spain and abroad. The ”la Caixa” fellowship programmes enjoy great recognition thanks to their prestige, to the reliability and rigour of the selection processes, to the fellows’ excellent academic level and the impact that the fellowship has on their future academic or professional careers
If you are interested in getting more information on the history and mission of ”la Caixa” Foundation, please visit the following page: www.fundacionbancarialacaixa.org/informacioncorporativa/informacioncorporativa_en.html