Financial Support Schemes

In principle, it is expected that authors of contributions, which have been scheduled for presentation, will secure their participation in the conference on their own without any financial assistance provided by the EGS. However, a limited amount of the overall budget of the conference is reserved to assist the younger and more recently established scientists in Europe and North America and colleagues from the east European countries to attend the General Assemblies of the Society:

Support for Young Scientists

Scientists, who are less than 30 years old on 31 December of the year of the EGS meeting and who intend to present a paper at the Society's meeting, of which they are the principal author may apply for one of the following two support awards:

 Young Scientist's Travel Award for Europeans (YSTA)
Free registration and a financial support to the travel expenditures of max. 500 CHF (Swiss Francs).
Keith Runcorn Travel Award for North Americans (KRTA)
Free registration and a financial support to the travel expenditures of max. 500 USD (US Dollar).

       

Number of KRTAs is very limited!
Support for East European Scientists

Scientists from east Europe, in particular from the countries of the former Soviet Union,  who must intend to present a paper at the meeting, of which they are the principle author, and who will secure their own travel arrangements to the meeting site may apply for the following award:

 East European Support Award (EESA)

This award includes free registration and a lump sum for covering hotel and daily expenses. Furthermore, EGS will take care for the health insurance (when necessary).

Application

Scientists, who wish to apply to one of the above awards, should just include the abbreviation of the respective award, i.e. YSTA, KRTA or EESA, into line no. 6 of the submittal information of their abstract.

Evaluation

Abstracts of applications for financial support are very critically reviewed in view of their excellence and importance for the meeting. Although the budget for the support programme is quite substantial, not every Session will get an award!

Attention:   

 

 Applicants will be informed about the outcome of the selection by the EGS Office, and they must confirm their participation in the meeting by the deadline date; otherwise they will not be included in the programme anymore!

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