Conference Travel Award

The ESEB Con­fer­ence Travel Award 2026 sti­pends are for stu­dents and young sci­ent­ists who are pro­fes­sion­ally based in coun­tries with a low GDP to attend the European Meet­ing of PhD Stu­dents in Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy (EMPSEB) in Ober­wiesenth­al, Ger­many, on June 8^th-12th 2026, or the Evol­u­tion meet­ing of ASN/ESEB/SSB/SSE in Clev­e­land, OH, US, on June 20^th-24^th, 2026. The sti­pend will con­trib­ute to cov­er­ing travel, liv­ing expenses, and early bird con­gress regis­tra­tion fees. The funds will be paid out as a reim­burse­ment after the meet­ing, based on the spe­cific­a­tion of the expenses.

Please note that this Con­fer­ence Travel Award is dis­tinct from the Con­gress Attend­ance Aid Grant, which is designed to pro­mote the attend­ance of under-rep­res­en­ted groups and to help with the addi­tion­al costs of meet­ing attend­ance due to respons­ib­il­it­ies for caring for depend­ents when attend­ing the meet­ings, and NOT for the costs of the applic­ant to attend the meeting.

DEADLINE: 30 Janu­ary 2026

Expec­ted decision by the end of Feb­ru­ary 2026.

Eligibility:

• Applic­ants must be ESEB mem­bers before the dead­line (for becom­ing an ESEB mem­ber, please vis­it https://eseb.org/society/eseb-membership/).
• Applic­a­tions can be sub­mit­ted by sci­ent­ists at vari­ous stages of their pro­fes­sion­al career (e.g., Mas­ters and PhD stu­dents, postdocs, and young lecturers).
• Sci­ent­ists work­ing in a coun­try with a high GDP are not eli­gible. High income coun­tries are clas­si­fied due to the map of the World Bank at https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024–2025.
• People who received an ESEB travel sti­pend in the last five years are not eligible.
• Applic­ants must apply to present either an oral com­mu­nic­a­tion or a poster to be eli­gible for the sti­pend. Present­a­tion of a talk or a poster will be veri­fied before the reim­burse­ment, but no proof that a poster or talk is accep­ted is neces­sary at the applic­a­tion stage. Please note that being chosen for a travel award does not guar­an­tee accept­ance of a poster or talk at the con­fer­ence, that the sti­pend will be giv­en based on receipts, and that par­ti­cip­a­tion is man­dat­ory in order to receive it.

Please note that these sti­pends are giv­en in con­junc­tion with ana­log­ous sti­pends offered by the Soci­ety for the Study of Evol­u­tion (SSE; sep­ar­ate call) to sup­port par­ti­cip­a­tion at the Evol­u­tion meet­ing 2026, so there is no need to apply to both, the ESEB and the SSE awards.

How to apply:

Send your applic­a­tion by email to the ESEB Office (office@eseb.org; sub­ject: Con­fer­ence Travel Award 2026).

The applic­a­tion should be no more than 2 pages long and include:

• Name of the applicant;
• ESEB mem­ber­ship number;
• Budget (cur­rency = EUR), includ­ing sources of addi­tion­al support;
• An explan­a­tion of how attend­ance at the meet­ing will sup­port the attendant’s pro­fes­sion­al goals;
• and a short CV.

Please sub­mit the applic­a­tion as a single PDF-file.

A sup­port let­ter from the applic­ant’s advisor/mentor/senior col­league is also required. Sup­port let­ters should be sent to the same email address (office@eseb.org) by the applicant’s ment­or by the dead­line.