RESOLUTION COMPLEMENTO DIRECTO, VI Support for training in Cultural Mediation

Spain

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS RESOLUTION

October 13th, 2025

COMPLEMENTO DIRECTO is a grant program, accompanied by individual and group mentoring, designed to support training in cultural mediation.

The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, in collaboration with the cultural association hablarenarte, is offering 14 annual scholarships, each in the amount of €2,200, with the aim of providing financial support to individuals interested in pursuing graduate studies (excluding doctoral programs) focused on or related to cultural mediation at universities or academic institutions in Spain during the 2026–2027 academic year.

In this sixth edition of the program, 123 applications were received. The selection process was organized in two phases.

In the first phase, a preliminary jury composed of Andrea de Pascual (Pedagogías Invisibles), Jesús Morate (representing the Autonomous University of Madrid), and Daniel Pecharromán (representing AMECUM), as well as Ana Moure (Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation), and Mamen Adeva and Aixa González (hablarenarte), made an initial selection of 26 finalists.

In the second phase, a jury composed of Rosa Hervás (Almazuela Federation / University of Murcia), Saúl Esclarín (cultural specialist in rural Aragon), Antonio Collados (researcher and director of La Madraza), and Laura Madero (scholarship recipient from the 5th edition of Complemento Directo, mediator, and artist)—facilitated by Ana Moure, Mamen Adeva, and Aixa González (with a voice but no voting rights)—who had a say but no voting rights), who selected the 14 recipients.

The recipients of the Complemento Directo grant program are:

• Laura Nadeszhda Fernández Rojas — Master’s Degree in Arts Education in Social and Cultural Institutions, Complutense University of Madrid.

• Yuan Yuan Zhou — Master’s Degree in International Cultural Management and Social Innovation, Complutense University of Madrid.

• Roxana Caiza Tipan — Experimental Program for Art-Based Mediation and Education (PERMEA), University of Valencia and Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.

• Paula Andrea Paez Direse — Master’s Degree in International Cultural Management and Social Innovation, Complutense University of Madrid.

• Elena Parro de la Flor — Official Master’s Degree in Artistic Education: Contemporary Thought and Performing Arts Creation, Castilla y León Higher School of Dramatic Arts (ESADCYL).

• Inés Violeta Merino Uriel — Master’s Degree in Cultural Management, Carlos III University of Madrid.

• Marta Ortiz-Echagüe Gonzalez — Master’s Degree in Art Production and Research, University of Granada.

• Mora De Vincentis — Master’s Degree in Archival Studies, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE).

• Nuria López García — Master’s Degree in Cultural Management, Open University of Catalonia and University of Girona.

• Marta Arrizabalaga Martín — Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, Autonomous University of Madrid / Complutense University of Madrid / Reina Sofía Museum.

• Ana Camila Alvira Uribe — Master’s Degree in Art for Social Inclusion and Community Development: Artistic and Cultural Mediation, University of Barcelona.

• Sabrina Kuzet — Master’s Degree in Art for Social Inclusion and Community Development: Artistic and Cultural Mediation, University of Barcelona.

• Naim Redondo Lanzós — Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, Autonomous University of Madrid / Complutense University of Madrid / Reina Sofía Museum.

• Imán Mohamed Mahrous Puche — Experimental Program for Art-Based Mediation and Education (PERMEA), University of Valencia and Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.