Contratos Juan de la Cierva 2026
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)
Year: 2026
Published on: September 2026
Application deadlines: Para investigadores, el plazo terminará a las 14:00 hora peninsular española: Start: 11/12/26 - End: 11/26/26 | Para Centros, el plazo terminará a las 14:00 hora peninsular española: Start: 11/12/26 - End: 12/3/26
Strategic plan: Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2024-2027
Programme/Offer: Programa Estatal de Recursos Humanos
: Subprograma Estatal de Formación, Atracción y Retención del Talento Investigador e Innovador
Budget: 60.000.000 €
Instruction body: Subdivisión de Planificación y Gestión Administrativa. Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Scheme: Concurrencia competitiva
The Juan de la Cierva grants aim to encourage the incorporation of young people, in possession of the doctoral degree, in order to complete their postdoctoral research training in Spanish R&D centers. Participants must meet the requirement to hold the doctoral degree and have obtained it between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2026 for the general access turn and for the specific turn JDC-INIA-CCAA and between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2026 for the specific access turn of persons with disabilities equal to or greater than 33 percent, except if they prove a cause of interruption according to the call.
Applications for participation are submitted by the R&D centers including in them the participants for their incorporation into the research teams. The selection is based on a competitive concurrence process based on their curricular merits and the quality and trajectory of the research team in which they want to integrate, giving special relevance to the merits related to the researcher/tutor.