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• PEJ-2014-C-19788: Grant for the promotion of
youth employment and implementation of
the Youth Guarantee in R+D+I. Four actions
were funded resulting in formalizing 4 labor
contracts: 2 research assistants and 2 superior
technicians.
• PEJ15/BIO/AI-0615: Granting of support for
hiring a research assistant in the framework of
the call for Grants for the Recruitment of
Research Assistants and Laboratory
Technicians, 2015 call.
• PEJ16-MED-AI-1963: Granting of support for
hiring a research assistant in the framework of • III Pathfinder projects call.: Collaboration
the call for Grants for the Recruitment of
Research Assistants and Laboratory
Technicians, call 2016.
• PEJ-2017-TL-BMD: Order 4606/2017 of
December 14 for which grants are given for
the execution of contracts for laboratory
technicians corresponding to the 2017 call.
Granting of support for the employment of a
laboratory technician during 2018.
2.4.2 Fellowships and grants
During 2017 the CIEN Foundation has awarded/ca-
rried out the following fellowships and grants:
• Queen Sofia Foundation - MAPFRE Fellowship
2016-2017: On December 27, 2016, the
Selection Committee decided to grant the
scholarship to Mrs. Susana Navas Rutete. A 6-
months stay, extendable for the same period, in
the Dementia/Alzheimer's disease research
program at the Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland (RCSI), Dublin, Ireland, during the first 5 the processes related to external and internal customer
months. The remaining 7 months will be held at
the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center
of the
• Queen Sofia Foundation - MAPFRE Fellowship
2017-2018: The fellowship program resolved to
grant in this new call to Dr. Linda Zhang. The
research program focuses on the study of
neurodegenerative disorders using an
approach that combines mathematical
modelling and computational simulation, in
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order to achieve the characterization of
predictive algorithms. The duration of the
scholarship will be 6 months, extendable for 6
additional months (maximum, 12 months). As
part of the scholarship, Dr. Zhang will spend a
period of time in the Neuroimaging department
of the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer
Center and another period at the Eastern
University of Finland in Kuopio. This scholarship is
an excellent opportunity to actively participate
in a joint multidisciplinary research program in
both institutions to study the mechanisms of
neurodegeneration and dementia.
agreement between the ISCIII and the CIEN
Foundation for developing the Strategic
Research Agenda of the European Union Joint
Program on Neurodegenerative diseases,
especially Alzheimer's disease (JPND), through
the CIEN Foundation's participation in the
European Network of Centers of Excellence
(CoEN). In 2016 the 3rd Call was resolved,
resulting in a project funded by Spanish
participation through a CIBERNED research
group, entitled "Protection of neurons in vitro
and in vivo from Synuclein toxicity by molecular
tweezers". This project was completed by
December 2017.
▄▀ 2.5. Quality Policy
In this year the procedures and working tools required
by the new version of the ISO 9001: 2015 standard have
been developed and adapted.
The quality policy aims at guaranteeing and optimizing
orientation, leadership, staff participation, the process-
based approach, continuous improvement and the in-
corporation of the risk-based process. Thus, it provides
greater predictive capacity for the evaluation, admi-
nistration, elimination and/or minimization of risks.
The following measures are worth highlighting: the
adoption of a process-based approach, the manage-