Conference Travel Award

These sti­pends are for stu­dents and young sci­ent­ists to attend the next EMPSEB meet­ing from May 29 – Jun 3, 2023 in Scot­land, UK, or the Evol­u­tion meet­ing of ASN/SSB/SSE in Albuquerque, New Mex­ico, from June 21–25, 2023. 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 con­gress, based on spe­cific­a­tion of the expenses. Note that the regis­tra­tion fee for the Evol­u­tion meet­ing will be waived by the organ­isers and thus does not need to be included in the budget.

Please note that this Con­fer­ence Travel Award is dis­tinct from the Con­gress Attend­ance Aid Grant, which is designed 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: Janu­ary 31st, 2023

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 lecturers).
  • Sci­ent­ists work­ing in a coun­try with high GDP are not eli­gible (for the list of excluded coun­tries see below).
  • 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. This 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 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 EVOLUTION 2023, 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 2023.

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

  • Name of the applicant;
  • ESEB mem­ber­ship number;
  • Budget, includ­ing sources of addi­tion­al support;
  • An explan­a­tion of how attend­ance to 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 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.

Mem­bers pro­fes­sion­ally based in the fol­low­ing coun­tries are NOT eli­gible for the travel sti­pend: Andorra, Aus­tralia, Aus­tria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bar­ba­dos, Bel­gi­um, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Repub­lic, Den­mark, Esto­nia, Fin­land, France, Ger­many, Greece, Green­land, Hong Kong, Hun­gary, Ice­land, Ire­land, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea Rep., Kuwait, Latvia, Liecht­en­stein, Lithuania, Lux­em­bourg, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Neth­er­lands, New Zea­l­and, Nor­way, Oman, Poland, Por­tugal, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Saudi Ara­bia, Singa­pore, Slov­akia, Slov­e­nia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzer­land, United Arab Emir­ates, United King­dom, United States of Amer­ica, Uruguay.