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The Company of Biologists' journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science, The Journal of Experimental Biology, and Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) – consider funding requests from the organisers of a range of charitable activities including – but not limited to meetings -workshops and conferences in the fields covered by our journals.

Organisers may use a grant from The Company of Biologists in a variety of ways, for example to meet the expenses of a plenary or keynote speaker, assist with travel for early career scientists, or to reduce (or waive) registration fees.

Funding

Although there are no rigid rules, we would normally expect grants to be broadly proportional to the size of the meeting. Typically, they are awarded on a sliding scale where meetings with fewer than 100 people are given up to £2,000, or over about 400 people up to £6,000. These limits can be exceeded in exceptional cases, but special justification is required.

- The applicant who completes the form must be in the organising group for the meeting. Applications from professional fund-raisers will not be considered.

- Incomplete application forms will not be considered.

- Information on the topics/programme outline, speakers/proposed speakers and the budget outline for the whole meeting must be included with the application form. Please keep this information to a maximum of six pages in total.

- Please note that whilst the quality of science remains paramount, The Company of Biologists would prefer to support meetings and events where organisers have sought maximal feasible diversity in speakers in terms of geography, gender and age. In addition, where attendance at events is selective, then we would expect such issues to also be influential. We invite applicants to make a statement on these issues in their application for funding.

- Funding requests must be in GB Pounds Sterling.

- Application forms and supporting information must be written in English.

What will not be funded?

- Expenditure on capital equipment and capital building proposals

- Removal expenses

- Undergraduate expeditions and courses

- Prizes, e.g. posters

- Social/political networking

- Conference dinners/social events/refreshment breaks

- Tuition fees

- Payments for the employment of staff

- Abstract books

- Series of meetings year-on-year

- Intra-institutional events, e.g. departmental seminars, etc.

- Indirect costs

Deadlines

In case of interest, please contact with FSJD Research's Department before March 12, 2020

-19 March 2020 (decision w/c 4 May 2020)

-28 May 2020 (decision w/c 6 July 2020)

-27 August 2020 (decision w/c 12 October 2020