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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]
The Ciervists (Spanish: Ciervistas), also known as the Ciervist Conservatives (Spanish: Conservadores Ciervistas, CC), were a political faction within the Liberal Conservative Party, led by Juan de la Cierva y Peñafiel, which split from the party in 1914.
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.
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.2 was an experimental autogyro built by Juan de la Cierva in Spain in 1921-22. Following the failure of the C.1 the previous year, la Cierva started again from scratch, this time taking the fuselage from a Hanriot biplane and adding a five-bladed single rotor to it.
Juan de la Cierva y Peñafiel (() March 11, 1864 - () January 11, 1938) was a Spanish politician and lawyer, who served during the reign of Alfonso XIII as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, of the Interior, of War, and of Finance and Development, and in the last government of the monarchy as Minister of Development.
Duarte Falcó y de la Cierva Marquess of Griñón ( Spanish : Marqués de Griñón ) is a title in the Peerage of Spain . It was created by Queen Isabella II in 1862 for María Cristina Fernández de Córdoba (1862-1917), daughter of the 6th Duke of Arión . [ 1 ]