Prizes and awards

ESA STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS

The ESA encourages student attendance at its annual conference by providing a number of Student Travel Grants each year. The value of each individual grant will depend on the number of applicants and the relative travel costs of all applicants, and are generally determined on the basis of relative costs of air travel. In 2011 in addition to usual travel grants, up to five extra travel grants (Wiley-Blackwell Student Fellowships) will be sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell. These fellowships will be awarded to individuals from the pool of applicants who have the highest travel costs. To be eligible, applicants must be a member of the Society, be the presenting author of a talk or poster, and not have previously won a travel grant from the Society. For information about travel to future ESA conferences please visit the ESA homepage.

ESA11 will be held in Hobart November 21-25, 2011

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday July 1 2011.

ESA11 ABSTRACTS CLOSE: Friday July 29 2011

WHO CAN APPLY?

To be eligible for a grant, applicants must:

• be a current financial member of ESA,
• be the presenting author of a talk or a poster
• provide all details as requested on the application form
• indicate in the application the projected travel budget inc the amount of any departmental or other support available
• be a student presenter - To qualify as a student presenter you must be presenting either a spoken paper or a poster on a topic researched as part of a student project, and your enrolment must have been current at some time within the 12 months prior to the conference. The work you are presenting can have co-authors, but you must be the first author, and the work presented must be primarily your original work

HOW DO I APPLY?

Step 1. Complete the ESA11 Travel Grant Application form available here and click on email button to submit or alternatively fax to:

ESA Executive Officer

Fax: 3162 0901

by 5pm Friday July 1 2011.

Please Note: The submit by email button will only work when form is completed online - if form is downloaded please email separately or fax.

Step 2. Submit your abstract to ESA11 by deadline

Step 3. When you receive notification that you will be presenting a paper or poster, send a copy of this notification to the Executive Officer. Failure to do this may result in money not being awarded.

Step 4. Register and make necessary travel arrangements yourself – grant funds will be forwarded to successful applicants direct.

Step 5. You will be notified of the outcome of your grant application and asked to provide bank account deatils to enable direct transfer of funds to your account.

CONTACT:

If you have any queries regarding the level of subsidy or the grant process, please contact:

Ian Williamson vp2@ecolsoc.org.au or

Gail Spina executiveofficer@ecolsoc.org.au