Martha Vidal, a fourth-year student of the Tourism Degree, is the only student from the Canary Islands to obtain a research introduction grant from the CSIC in the academic year 2022/2023.
The Minister of Education of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Myriam Barros, visited the University School of Tourism of Lanzarote (EUTL) this Tuesday, a center dependent on the Ministry she directs and attached to the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, to congratulate the scholarship student.
“For the granting of these scholarships, the best national academic records are selected, so it is a pride that one of these scholarships has gone to a young woman who studies on our island,” said Barros, who conveyed her best wishes to Martha Vidal, hoping she has “a bright future.”
The JAE Intro scholarship program, financed by the CSIC, is aimed at university students interested in starting a research career, enabling them to carry out a stay in one of the research groups that carry out their work in the centers and institutes of the CSIC, its mixed centers and its units.
This year, 50 scholarships have been granted for the 121 centers distributed throughout the national territory. After having obtained one of them, Martha Vidal will begin training on March 1, which will last for seven months.
The project is co-directed by Pablo Alonso González and Eva Parga Dans, both researchers from the Social Sciences, Heritage and Food Group (IPNA-CSIC), and by Heredina Fernández Betancort, professor doctor at the University School of Tourism of Lanzarote.
Among the objectives of the collaboration between the EUTL and the Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) is to promote initiation in research and the future professional projection of the students of the University School of Tourism of Lanzarote, as well as to motivate the participation and access to research grants and scholarships for students of 3rd and 4th year of the Tourism Degree of Lanzarote within the national, regional and island calls established for this purpose, for research works carried out on the island.
The lines of research to be developed are part of the research projects underway from IPNA-CSIC and the EUTL and include topics related to health, tourism, food, gastronomy and heritage. The coordination of the training in research is carried out by research personnel of recognized prestige from both centers, with accredited and extensive experience in the scientific field.
