Scientific Meeting Grants - The Company of Biologists
- Entidad convocante:
- The Company of Biologists
- Categoría:
- Projectes de recerca
- Ámbito:
- Internacional
- Inicio:
- Plazo interno:
- Plazo real:
- Descripción:
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Objective
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 organizers 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.
Requirements
The applicant who completes the form must be in the organizing 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 organizers 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.
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 cost
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.
Deadlines
4 January 2019 (Decision w/c 11 February 2019)
25 March 2019 (Decision w/c 06 May 2019)
27 May 2019 (Decision w/c 08 July 2019)
02 September 2019 (Decision w/c 07 October 2019)
In case of interest, please contact FSJD Research's Department one week before the official deadline.
More information:
http://www.biologists.com/grants/