His Majesty King Felipe VI, King of Spain, awards the Iberdrola Scholarships

The commitment to new generations’ educational excellence, talent and employability was the central focus of the award ceremony for the company’s scholarships for 2024–2025, which was presided over this morning by His Majesty King Felipe VI at the Iberdrola Campus in San Agustín de Guadalix (Madrid).

With this programme, Iberdrola Group, of which Iberdrola España forms part, seeks to identify, promote and incorporate highly skilled young people in areas such as electrification through electricity grids , renewable energies and storage, digitalisation and AI, all of which are essential to achieve a more secure, self-sufficient, competitive and sustainable energy model.

The event, which was also attended by the Spanish Minister for Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, included a lecture by professor Jarillo-Herrero, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the internationally prestigious centres affiliated with the Iberdrola Universities Programme (Iberdrola U), along with Yale and Harvard in the United States, Oxford and Strathclyde in the United Kingdom, the University of Salamanca and the Pontificia Comillas University in Spain, the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, the University of Qatar, and the University of Queensland in Australia.

Ignacio Galán, chairman of Iberdrola, stressed the importance of creating bridges between education and employability, especially in sectors of strategic importance such as energy, and thanked His Majesty the King for his continued support for this initiative. ‘Every year, around 13,000 people pass through this centre to adapt to new technologies. In this way, they can continue working, transferring knowledge and providing a service to a society that increasingly demands more electricity, better services and more skills. This is what we intend to do with these scholarships, with which we ensure that the best people always have all the means to be able to develop’, he said.

In the last three years alone, more than 400 people have benefited from the Iberdrola International Scholarship Programme, and many of them have joined the company's team. This initiative is also part of a comprehensive commitment to young talent, which has led Iberdrola Group to onboard more than 30 k young people in the last decade.

These programmes are:

• Iberdrola International Master's Scholarships: This programme drives education in strategic areas to transform the energy industry, such as engineering, mathematics, digital marketing, environmental sciences and big data at universities in Spain, the United Kingdom and Mexico, to add the very best talent to the company.
• Energy for Future: This is an initiative aimed at postdoctoral researchers to add to knowledge and innovation and thus contribute to the growth of an energy development model based on electrification. These grants last for three years and are carried out in collaboration with 15 prestigious international universities.
• Iberdrola Fulbright Scholarships: These scholarships offer postgraduate training for two years at universities in the United States in key areas for sustainable energy and technological development.
• Fundación Carolina Scholarships: Aimed at students who have already graduated from Latin America and Portugal and who are seeking to deepen their energy and environmental specialisations at Spanish universities.
• ICAI Scholarships: Supporting high-potential, high-achieving undergraduate students with a focus on energy disciplines.

Likewise, diplomas have been awarded for other specialised training and employability programmes:

• Restoration Scholarships at the Prado National Museum and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, which, with a duration of two years, are aimed at young specialists in the conservation of artistic heritage and restoration.
• ADOP scholarships, which, through university and postgraduate training, accompany Paralympic athletes in their transition to a professional career outside the field of sport, in collaboration with the Spanish Olympic Committee.
• Start by Educating (STEM 4 GRLS) scholarships, which train educational leaders to generate real impact in vulnerable environments and foster scientific and technological vocations among girls.

Committed to its workers

Iberdrola Group considers talent a strategic foundation of the company and is firmly committed to offering quality jobs and ongoing training. It is recognised as one of the best companies to work for in the world and recently received the international ‘Top Employer: Large Enterprise 2025’ seal.