Eligibility

• Any UK-based researcher who is no more than five years past Ph.D. (excluding academic career breaks) can apply to the scheme.

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Benefits

•  Grants are available.

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Application Process

• Application Form (online)
• The sample copy of the application form.

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Eligibility

•   The Promotion is only open to residents of the UK aged 18 and over, and who are based in the UK at the time of entry.
•    Entry is restricted to one entry per person; duplicate entries will be excluded from the Promotion.

Benefits

Application Process

• Apply here.

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Saga Magazine is offering one lucky winner and their travelling companion the chance to join our magical 9-night Golden Triangle with Ranthambore National Park tour, courtesy of Saga Holidays.

Eligibility

•   This programme is open to all UK residents aged 18 years or over, except employees of the Promoter (see condition 20), their families, agents or any third party directly associated with the administration.

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Benefits

Saga 9-night Golden Triangle with Ranthambore National Park holiday for two, on your choice of the scheduled departure date (subject to availability) between January – April and September – November 2023 (see the terms and conditions for the specific departure dates), including:

• VIP door-to-door travel service
• Hotel stays in New Delhi, Jaipur, Ranthambore National Park, and Agra
• Return Flights and Transfers
• 10 excursions and visits
• 18 meals
• International flights with Virgin Atlantic from London Heathrow (supplements may apply from other airports)
• Travel to the destination by coach
• Porterage

Excursions and visits

• City tours of New and Old Delhi, and Jaipur
• Visits to Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri
• The train journey from Bharatpur to Sawai Madhopur
• 3 game drives in Ranthambore National Park

(Except for the meals stated above, the prize does not include food and drink on excursions, spending money or personal expenses. Any other costs incurred in addition to those set out above and that are incidental to the fulfilment of the prize are the responsibility of the lead passenger.)

Application Process

• Apply here.

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Due to the high number of applications received for each reviewing round, it should be noted that the conference that the applicant wishes to attend must be more than 1 month after the closing date of the round applied to. If the conference takes place less than 1 month after the closing date then the application will be ineligible and will not be reviewed by the committee.

Eligibility 

• Postgraduate
• Early Career
• Full, and Emeritus members
• Applicants need to have been a member for at least 12 months prior to the deadline on the closing date of the round applied to. Members that have joined as multi-year members are eligible to apply for a General Travel Grant after six months of membership has elapsed.
• Applicants must not have received one of the following Society grants in the 12 months before the closing date of the round applied to Student Bursary, Early Career Bursary, or Full Member Bursary.
• Applicants need to provide an abstract that has been submitted to the conference, to demonstrate active participation. In the case of visits to other laboratories to learn new techniques, please provide a summary of the intended work to be undertaken during the visit.
• Applicants must have been a member of the Biochemical Society for over 12 months on the closing date of the round that they apply to.
• Applicants that do not fulfill this criterion will be ineligible and their applications will not be reviewed by the committee.

Benefits

• The travel award offers between £300 and £500 to attend the conference

Application process

• For the registration form click here and become a member of the program.

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Required documents

• The case for financial need and the justification for the amount requested.
• The promise of the applicant
• What the benefit of attending that particular conference would be to the applicant’s career.

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Eligibility

To apply for the grants:

• you must be a student or early-career scientist member of SEB
• you must be in the second consecutive year of membership or pay for a multi-year membership when joining if you qualify for it
• you must not have received funding from the Company of Biologists in the past 12 months
• your research needs to be within SEB’s remit. This is restricted to the subject areas that are covered by our activities (animal, plant and cell biology). Research directly related to medicine is precluded as it is better funded than most biological disciplines.
• your travel date must occur at least 1 month after the application deadline for the quarter
• applications from scientists who are presenting at a conference or meeting are looked on more favorably than those who are not presenting

Benefits 

• The maximum funding award is £250 for travel within the home country and £500 for overseas travel

Application process

• To apply for a Company of Biologists grant please fill in the online application form.

Please have the following documents (in PDF format) ready to attach with your application:

• two reference letters (one will need to be from your supervisor)
• a letter from your university administration or head of a department confirming your student or early-career scientist status

As part of the application form you will also need to provide:

• a short justification outlining why you should be awarded the grant
• an abstract on your research or on the presentation that you are intending to give

Terms and conditions:

If your application is successful:

• Claim your award within three months of the award notification date
• Funds can only be used for the meeting/ research trips/ workshop that you applied for
• Grant recipients who claimed their award but did not attend the event will be required to repay the grant in full
• You must acknowledge the SEB in any presentation you give. Download the SEB logo and Company of Biologists logo for this purpose.
  
• After your trip, you must send electronic copies of your receipts to show how you spent the grant.
• Write a report of your trip upon your return. Please complete grant report form and return pictures from your trip. Your report may be published in the Travels with My Grant section of the SEB Magazine (website and print).

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The Faculty of Arts offers a limited number of conference grants to graduate coursework students in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHSS)

Eligibility

To be eligible for this scholarship, you need to:

• have been invited to attend the conference (this should be in the form of an invitation to all students in a University of Melbourne degree program by the organization convening a conference) and/or will be presenting at the conference (confirmation must be provided)
• demonstrate that the conference content is relevant to the student’s current program of graduate coursework study (to be determined by the Course Coordinator)
• agree to report (in writing or in person) to your academic school on content relevant to the conference upon your return
• have completed at least 37.5 points and a semester of study at the University of Melbourne in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences towards the degree to which the conference is relevant
• agree to provide a copy of your receipts for the relevant approved expenditure (conference registration, airfares, accommodation)

Benefits

• Up to $500 is awarded for local conferences, up to $1000 for interstate conferences, and up to $2000 for overseas conferences. The amount awarded will correspond to a percentage of the documented conference registration, travel and accommodation costs

Application Process

You may apply once you have been invited to attend and/or present at the conference. The following documents must be submitted to the Faculty of Arts in the event that your grant is approved:

• Paid receipts for conference registration
• Paid receipts for economy fare return flights or equivalent overland transport fares to and from the conference destination. Where travel to and from a conference destination is framed by personal travel, only a percentage of travel costs will be considered associated with the internship. Please do not submit receipts for everyday travel
• Paid receipts for accommodation costs associated with the duration of the conference. Costs for accommodation outside of the timeframe of the conference as specified in conference materials will not be considered associated with the conference
• Confirmation in writing (eg email) from your course coordinator specifying that the conference is relevant to your current degree program
• Confirmation in writing (eg email) from conference organizers specifying that students in your degree program have been invited to attend or to present at the conference for which you are applying for funding

Only applications containing the aforementioned documentation will be considered. Applications are evaluated four times a year. Applications must be submitted by the close of business on the following dates:

• Round 1 application deadline: 31 January 2020
  Round 2 application deadline: 30 April 2020
  Round 3 application deadline: 31 August 2020
  Round 4 application deadline: 30 November 2020

No late applications will be accepted for consideration until the next round. Retrospective applications will be accepted, for travel in the same year of the application.

• Application is via the online form
• You must complete all sections of the form
• You must provide all requested documents

Conditions

• Applicants are only eligible to receive the grant once during their course
• Winning applicants, please note: The University of Melbourne reserves the right to publish the name of the winning applicant on its websites and other University of Melbourne publications
• No late applications will be accepted for consideration until the next round. Retrospective applications will be accepted, for conferences attended in the twelve months preceding application
• It is assumed that the relevant EHS and Risk Assessment forms have/will be managed by the student
• Approval of travel will be contingent upon the current Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT) advice with respect to the level of safety of the overseas destinations, available at the Smart Traveller website. Applications for Special Circumstances approval will be referred to the Academic Registrar, who must be provided with documentation of the grounds for this special consideration
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Eligibility

• Medical students with an MD fellowship of the Faculty of Medicine or the GSLS who registered with the GSLS and take part in a specially adapted, structured doctoral program are also eligible for GSLS travel fellowships. They can receive up to 500 EUR until graduation

Benefits

Funding for travel fellowships is based on the location of the meeting or activity attended:

• Germany: up to 300 EUR
• Europe: up to 500 EUR
• Overseas: up to 1,000 EUR

Application Process

• Send an application (in English) including a statement of motivation and details about the conference/workshop/ research stay BEFORE it takes place.  Please also submit a copy of your talk or poster abstract, and verification of your presentation as soon as it is accepted by the conference organizers (travel awards will only be made once the acceptance is confirmed)
• Provide estimated or actual costs of your conference/workshop attendance/research stay
• Provide your current CV with publication record
• Provide a reference letter from your primary supervisor
• Please note that the GSLS travel fellowship will not cover the daily allowance (“Tagegeld”). You may not necessarily receive the full amount of the travel grant

Note:

• Please send your application in paper copy with original signatures to:
  Graduate School of Life Sciences, Dr. Gabriele Blum-Oehler, Beatrice-Edgell-Weg 21, Hubland North Campus, 97074 Würzburg
• In case of additional questions please contact:
  Dr. Gabriele Blum-Oehler, Phone: 31-81474, Email: gabriele.blum@uni-wuerzburg.de
• For administrative queries (i.e. business travel application, reimbursement process), please contact:
  Mr. Sebastian Michel, Phone: 31-84433, Email: sebastian.michel@uni-wuerzburg.de

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These grants are intended to encourage and enable scholars from the Central Eurasia region to participate in global academic networks and the CESS scholarly community.

The grants of between $500 and $1,500 USD are intended to support travel-related expenses (economy airfare, ground transportation, accommodation, visa costs, etc). The grant amount is variable depending on your location (where you reside). Applicants themselves and/or their home institutions must cover any additional expenses.

Eligibility

Applicants must meet the eligibility criteria listed below to apply

Of those who are eligible, priority is given to:

• Early career scholars
• Applicants who have not previously received a travel grant from CESS
• Applicants who reside in the Central Eurasian region

The eligibility criteria are:

• has submitted a proposal for the CESS 2021 Annual Conference (and which, after the peer review process is accepted)
• is a citizen of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan
• has a record or holds the promise of fostering public discourse in the scholar’s home context
• has a record or holds the promise of advancing institution-building by promoting quality academic scholarship in the scholar’s home context
• holds promise for a productive scholarly career
• is capable of executing high-quality scholarship in the English language
• is in financial need

Benefits

• The grants of between $500 and $1,500 USD are intended to support travel-related expenses (economy airfare, ground transportation, accommodation, visa costs, etc)

Application Process

To apply:

• Submit your proposal to CESS 2021 by the proposal submission deadline
• Complete the online travel grant application form (link will be added in early 2021) in full by the travel grant submission deadline
• Click here to apply

Note:

• Grants will be paid in cash at the end of the conference upon presentation of 1) a digital copy of the paper presented at the conference and 2) an identification document (e.g. passport)
• Late, incomplete or ineligible applications will not be considered
• The results will be announced in July 2021

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Eligibility

• This grant is open to all

Benefits

• Typical expenses that may be paid from these grants include travel, lodging, and meals for up to a few weeks while conducting research at the museum(s), reasonable services purchased from the host institution and research supplies
• Awards average about $1,000 each and may not exceed $1,500
• Recipients will receive a check from the Bank of America, sent by FedEx. Alternatively, checks can be picked up at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Application Process

• An application must be written in English, and include:
  • a short project description and explicit statement of research goals
  • itinerary
  • budget
  • curriculum vitae
  • three letters of support
  • letter or email from each collection to be visited
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Note: Brazilian researchers please note: The MCZ has established Material Transfer Agreements with multiple institutions in Brazil which allow to exchange loans. This may impact your proposal by making travel to the MCZ unnecessary. To find out if your institution is eligible to receive specimen loans from the MCZ, please contact Melissa Aja.

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Eligibility

• This grant is open to all

Benefits

• Typical expenses that may be paid from these grants include travel, lodging, and meals for up to a few weeks while conducting research at the museum(s), reasonable services purchased from the host institution and research supplies
• Awards average about $1,000 each and may not exceed $1,500
• Recipients will receive a check from the Bank of America, sent by FedEx. Alternatively, checks can be picked up at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Application Process

• An application must be written in English, and include:
  • a short project description and explicit statement of research goals
  • itinerary
  • budget
  • curriculum vitae
  • three letters of support
  • letter or email from each collection to be visited
• Click here to apply: Ernst Mayr Travel Grant applications

Note: Brazilian researchers please note: The MCZ has established Material Transfer Agreements with multiple institutions in Brazil which allow to exchange loans. This may impact your proposal by making travel to the MCZ unnecessary. To find out if your institution is eligible to receive specimen loans from the MCZ, please contact Melissa Aja.

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