It started back in 2004 with 350 annual scholarships,[3] and it has been awarded every year since then, to date (January 2023).
[6] The scholarship suffered drastic reductions in funding during the European debt crisis, which seriously affected Spain.
[14] More recently, there have been rising concerns on the program by the scientific community, protesting around its low salaries and employment instability,[5] its discrimination against pregnant women,[15] or its bureaucratic processes.
[16] The scholarship has been funding prestigious researchers in Spain, often bringing them from overseas, across all disciplines, including Biology,[17][18] Physics,[19][20] Mathematics,[21] Medicine,[22][23] History,[24][25] Social sciences[26] or Engineering.
[27] This scholarship has enabled high impact research, such as a number of publications in Nature[28][29][30][31] or Oxford University journals.