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English translation: currently holds a research grant

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Spanish term or phrase:	Ayuda para la Formación de Personal Investigador
English translation:	currently holds a research grant
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08:35 Jan 25, 2012

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Spanish term or phrase: Ayuda para la Formación de Personal Investigador

X, Director de Investigación de la Universidad del País Vasco, certifica que Y, con DNI 12345678 está disfrutando de una Ayuda para la Formación de Personal Investigador de la Universidad del País Vasco , para la realización de su tesis doctoral.

¿Currently receives a Research Personnel Training grant at the Univ. of the Basque Country??

nuria25

currently holds a research grant

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www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca › ... › Gender and Health -
15 Dec 2011 – He currently holds research grants from both NSERC and CIHR for his work on reproductive biology and is regularly invited as external or ...
Centre for Criminology :: Profile of Rachel Condry
www.crim.ox.ac.uk/profile.php?who=rachel... -
9 Nov 2011 – She currently holds two research grants: a 30 month ESRC-funded project on adolescent-to-parent violence and a British Academy-funded ...; www.mun.ca/folklore/people/Diamond.php -
17 Sep 2010 – She currently holds a SSHRC Research Grant to study the ways in which indigenous musics (both Native American and Sami) are being ...

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currently holds a research grant

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currently receives a research grant from the University of the Basque Country to write his/her ..

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Just for the record...	Charles Davis

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currently holds a research grant

Jenni Lukac
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currently receives a research grant from the University of the Basque Country to write his/her ..

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You seem to have go the sense, I have just changed it round a bit. As it is written it is not actually a 'research grant', ie it does not say it is for the research itself, but to train people who are researchers, so it would be "currently receives a training grant for researchers". However it then rather contradicts this by saying it is for her/him to do her/his doctorate, so you may prefer what I have written, which clearly captures the sense.
I would dispense with the capital letters, except for the University bit (and I would definitely not abbreviate this to 'Univ.')
Could you please get me a grant too?

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Jenni is right. 'currently holds a research grant' is probably better

RichardInItaly
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Under the current Spanish system there are two different kinds of grants awarded to enable graduates to pursue studies leading to a doctorate. They are called Ayudas para la Formación del Personal Universitario and Ayudas para la Formación del Personal Investigador, familiarly known as FPU grants and FPI grants respectively.

The difference is that FPU grants are awarded directly by the Ministry of Education to the student, whereas FPI grants are awarded by an official ministry-funded research project within a university which has requested and received funds for this purpose.

A very large proportion of university research and research training in Spain nowadays takes place within the context of these research projects. They are based in a particular university or research institution, though a number of them involve two or more institutions, they involve a team of university staff and postgraduate students with a leader, and they are devoted to a large-scale collaborative research undertaking, though individual sub-projects related to the overall theme of the project are conducted within their ambit. In practice you virtually have to be a member of one (or more) of these projects to get a post or advance professionally.

From the student's point of view, holding an FPU or an FPI grant amounts to pretty much the same thing. Both are for four years (maximum), the money is more or less the same (I think), and although FPU grants are explicitly designed to train university researchers and teachers whereas FPI grants are supposedly just for research, holders of both have roughly the same opportunities and requirements to teach courses. (All Spanish postgraduates want to teach courses, because again it's virtually essential to have teaching on your CV if you want to get a university post.)

FPU grants are very competitive; FPI grants less so, in practice. FPI grants are awarded at the discretion of the members of the research project, and by the university where the project is based, rather than by national competition, so they tend to go to those known to and favoured by the project leader: his or her star pupils, as it were.

So if we need to distinguish these things, we might perhaps call them:

FPU: individual pre-doctoral research grant
FPI: project-based pre-doctoral research grant

I've included "pre-doctoral" (you could say just "doctoral"), because there are other kinds of research grants for post-doctoral and staff research.

Note also that in the case of FPU you would say "awarded a research grant AT the University of X", whereas for FPI you could say "awarded a research grant BY the Unversity of X".

Charles Davis
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Asker: Thanks, Charles. Great info!

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