The University of Glasgow has signed a partnership agreement with Santander Universities which will provide scholarships for Iberian and Latin American postgraduate students interested in completing a Masters degree at Glasgow.

The agreement will provide a minimum of four scholarships for students coming to Glasgow from institutions within the 11 countries of the Grupo Santander Network – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The three-year agreement will also enable the University to establish a minimum of 15 mobility scholarships for Glasgow students and staff wishing to study or conduct research in universities  within the Grupo Santander Network.

Santander Universities, founded in 1996 by Banco Santander, supports scholarships and fellowships at more than 800 universities around the world.

Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, said: “We are delighted to sign an agreement with Santander Universities which will facilitate the international exchange of students and staff, help to build collaborative links and provide students with a great international experience.”

The agreement was signed by Professor Muscatelli and Luis Juste, Director of Santander Universities in the UK, at a ceremony in the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow.

In addition, £20,000 has also been pledged by Santander Universities, with an additional £10,000 from Santander Shareholders, for the first year of the three-year Stirling Maxwell Research Project.

The project will research the context and significance of William Stirling’s Annals of the Artists of Spain (1847- 8), a landmark in the history of photography and in photography as a tool of art history. 

The Annals Talbotypes project will involve international collaboration between the University of Glasgow and its partners in the project, the National Media Museum, Bradford; the Prado Museum, Spain’s national gallery; and CEEH, a Spanish foundation in Madrid. The major outcome will be the publication of a facsimile and critical edition of the Annals Talbotypes (early forms of photographs). 

For more information contact Stuart Forsyth in the University of Glasgow Media Relations Office on 0141 330 4831 or email s.forsyth@admin.gla.ac.uk

First published: 12 May 2010

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