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The scholarship honors the Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva. It started back in 2004 with 350 annual scholarships, [3] and it has been awarded every year since then, to date (January 2023). [4] It has provided 2 to 3 years of funding, depending on its modalities, which have varied over time. [1] [5]
Together with the more junior Juan de la Cierva scholarship, it is the most prestigious nationally-funded research scholarship to follow a scientific career in Spain. [2] In fact, it is considered the main talent attraction strategy [3] for Spain to counteract its scientific brain drain. [4]
Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ([ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer.
In 2013 she earned the Juan de la Cierva Spanish postdoctoral scholarship, [6] coming back to the Institute of Government and Public Policies where she founded the IGOPnet research group. [7] In 2014 she won the prestigious 5-year scholarship Ramón y Cajal . [ 8 ]
She later obtained a Juan de la Cierva post-doc scholarship to continue her work at UCM. [15] In this period, she has continued her research on the social aspects of blockchain technologies, while trying to raise awareness on its dangers. [16] [17]
The Cierva Autogiro Company was a British firm established in 1926 to develop the autogyro. The company was set up to further the designs of Juan de la Cierva , a Spanish engineer and pilot, with the financial backing of James George Weir , a Scottish industrialist and aviator.
The Cierva C.6 was the sixth autogyro designed by engineer Juan de la Cierva, and the first one to travel a "major" distance. Cierva, the engineer responsible for the invention of the autogyro, had spent all his funds on the research and creation of his first five prototypes.
The Cierva C.4 was an experimental autogiro built by Juan de la Cierva in Spain in 1922 which early the following year became the first autogyro to fly successfully. Failures of De la Cierva's attempts to compensate for dissymmetry of lift with the C.1, C.2, and C.3 autogiros, led him to consider alternative means of enabling an autogyro to fly without rolling over.