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Formerly the British section

International Union for the Study of Social Insects

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Student Support Grants – 2012 Guidelines

The North-west European section of IUSSI supports student members by awarding small grants for conference attendance.  These will be awarded by a competitive process, outlined below.

Eligibility criteria for applications

  1. The applicant must be a current student member of the Section of the IUSSI.
  2. The applicant must be intending to present their work at a specific scientific conference in 2012. Both oral and poster presentations are eligible.
  3. The work presented must come under the remit of the IUSSI (“the study of social insects and other social organisms in the broadest sense”, IUSSI Constitution, 2010).
  4. The conference must take place in a country other than the applicant’s main place of residence.
  5. The conference cannot be a meeting of the North-west European Section of the IUSSI.
  6. The applicant must not have already received a travel grant from the Section this calendar year.
  7. The work presented must not be or have been the subject of another application to the Section from the same or another applicant. Grants can be given only to the presenting author.

Application process

To apply, fill in the application form and email the completed form to the Section Treasurer.
The deadline for the first round of 2012 applications is March 31st.
Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their applications by April 30th.
If sufficient funds remain, there may be a second round of applications in May.

Decision process
The applications will be considered by members of the Section Committee: the Section President, Secretary and Treasurer. In the case of a conflict of interest (e.g. if an applicant is a supervisee of a Section Committee member, or if a Section Committee member is on the organising committee of a conference for which travel is requested) that Section Committee member will not participate in discussion of the application concerned. In such cases, a senior member of the Section will be asked to act as a replacement.
Priority will be given to:

  1. Applicants presenting a compelling case for why the conference is relevant to their studies
  2. Applicants who have not received a travel grant from the section in previous years
  3. Applicants in the later years of their PhD studies
  4. Work most clearly under the remit of the IUSSI

Post-award follow-up
A list of successful applicants will be provided on the Section’s website. Successful applicants will write conference reports which will be published in the Section Newsletter.

 

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