The Bancaja International Scholarships subsidize stays in foreign universities and research and development centers. PHOTO: Manuel Castells

Ten graduates of the University of Navarra have received a Bancaja Internationalscholarship to promote their research abroad training . They are Elena Ibáñez and Raquel Maeztu (Chemistry), Cristina López del Burgo (Medicine), Miguel Sánchez (Law), Elena Arriazu and Alberto Orta(Biology), and Mª Luisa Azpíroz (Journalism); Alejandro Armesto (Journalism) from Vitoria; Jorge Losada (Architecture) from Zaragoza; and Alfonso Osorio (Education).

Elena Ibáñez, Cristina López del Burgo and Miguel Sánchez will carry out their stays in Germany, USA and Italy, respectively. Elena Arriazu, Mª Luisa Azpíroz, Raquel Maeztu and Alberto Orta will work at the School of Mount Sinai Medicine, at the George Washington University, at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden and at the School of Harvard Medicine.

For his part, Alejandro Armesto will study the management of free newspapers in Europe in the UK; Jorge Losada will travel to Italy to take a complementary historical view of the commercial spaces built between 1950 and 1970; and Alfonso Osorio will continue the development of his project, focused on the Education of affectivity and human sexuality, in the USA.

A researcher at CIMA in Belgium

Marta Lasa, a scientist at the research center Applied Medicine (CIMA) of the University of Navarra, has also obtained a scholarship . She will travel to Belgium to collaborate with the group of Proteomics and Bioinformatics of the University of Ghent.

The Bancaja International Scholarships subsidize stays at foreign universities and research and development centers so that graduates can carry out other activities that improve their training and/or research of project for which the financial aid is awarded. These grants, of up to 3,000 euros, are the result of a agreement signed between the Bancaja Foundation and the University of Navarra.