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OAS and Mexico Announce 2015 CONACYT-OAS-AMEXCID Scholarships
From left to right:
Emilio Rabasa Gamboa, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS
José Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General
Dolores Sánchez Soler, Adjunct Director of the Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT)
Date: February 10, 2015
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Maria Patricia Leiva/OAS
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Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Mexico
today announced the launch of the 2015 edition of its scholarship
program for post-graduate studies, under the agreement signed in 2012 by
the hemispheric institution, the Council of Science and Technology of
Mexico (CONACYT) and the Mexican Agency for Development Cooperation
(AMEXCID).
At that time, the institutions undertook to grant, over five
years, 500 postgraduate scholarships to students from throughout the
region, a figure that was increased last year to 800. The scholarships
guarantee fellows room and board, health insurance, substantive tuition
discounts and the possibility of research stays in their home countries.
Altogether, 392 of these scholarships have already been awarded, of
which in 2014, 72 were for doctoral studies, 191 for master´s and nine
for specialties. The scholarships cover areas such as engineering (which
received the largest number of scholarships); physics-mathematics and
earth sciences; biology and chemistry; medicine and health sciences.
The OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, stressed the importance of the momentum that the OAS Scholarship Program
has received over the last decade. "The launch by our scholarship
program, in a very ambitious policy, of an initiative of partnerships
for education and training, has allowed us to move from 400 scholarships
per year in 2005 to more than 1,400 this year," he said. "Three
quarters of the OAS scholarship grants come from the contribution of our
institutional partners. And I must recognize that the main grants come
from two countries in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil. This has meant
an estimated increase in the resources of our Organization for
scholarships of $ 60 million," added the chief representative of the
hemispheric Organization during a ceremony at OAS headquarters in
Washington, DC.
Secretary General Insulza recalled that, throughout its history,
the OAS has awarded over 110,000 scholarships to students across the
Hemisphere. He also urged member countries not participating in the
program to get involved in this initiative. "I would like to appeal once
again to member countries to spread the word about our scholarship
program, but at the same time I also want to call those who do not
contribute to do so," he added.
For his part, the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS,
Emilio Rabasa, quoted the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, in
highlighting the importance of scholarship programs. "International
experience shows that investing in science and technology, and
innovation and development, is a sure path to sustained long-term
economic growth," he said.
The Mexican diplomat pledged his country's commitment to cooperate
with the region in this area and noted that twenty countries in the
region benefit from the initiative. "The CONACYT-OAS-AMEXCID Scholarship
Program is a clear example of the will of my country to strengthen
cooperative ties with the Americas," he said. He added that "CONACYT is
and has been a fundamental partner in promoting, in coordination with
the OAS and its counterparts in the region, coordination in science and
technology."
Meanwhile, the Deputy Director of CONACYT, Dolores Sánchez Soler,
highlighted the possibility that the project could be renewed after five
years. "The program has offered 800 scholarships to be distributed over
a period of five years with the possibility of being renewed by
agreement of the parties," she recalled. Deputy Director Sánchez Soler
said the initiative offers scholarships in Spanish and English.
The event was attended by delegates from member countries of the
OAS, representatives of international organizations and various
universities.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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