Dear prospective PhD students, for those considering coming to Spain, it may be worth applying for a La Caixa fellowship. The website is: http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/about/lacaixa/index.php?l=0 You do not have to present a project, in fact you only choose which lab to go to after being selected.
greetings, Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij