Grant for participation in a conference abroad

The FWO encourages mobility among researchers and international contacts between research groups. This grant supports researchers who wish to actively participate in an international scientific conference abroad. The grants are awarded only for active participation (presentation or poster) in conferences of a purely scientific nature, featuring speeches and discussions of original contributions or reports.

• Throughout the entire period of your stay abroad, you are affiliated to a university or university hospital in the Flemish Community or to a federal or Flemish scientific institute (see regulations for more detailed information).
• Predoctoral applicants must have obtained their master degree in one of the member states of the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland. Applicants with a master degree from outside the EEA or Switzerland must hold a master degree and have a declaration from the university administration confirming that it will permit the applicant to write a doctoral thesis. For more information see regulations.
• Applicants from postdoctoral level onwards can only apply for this travel grant when their PhD degree, with as reference point the date mentioned on the PhD degree, was awarded maximum six years before the start date of the conference. For more information see regulations.
• For participation in a conference in one of the member states of the EEA or in Switzerland or in the United Kingdom, you need to have at least one peer-reviewed publication as first or last author. For participation in a conference outside Europe (i.e. other countries than the ones mentioned in the previous sentence), you should have three or more accepted peer-reviewed publications out of which minimum 1 as first or last author. For more information see regulations.
• You give a presentation (poster or oral) at the conference.
• In case you already receive a bench fee within a granted mandate or fellowship, you cannot apply for a travel grant for a conference, short study visit or participation in a workshop/course in one of the member states of the EEA or Switzerland or the United Kingdom, since this bench fee can be used for these purposes.
• Per research unit maximum 2 applications for a particular conference can be submitted. A research unit is defined as a research team that collaborates on a structural basis as demonstrated by e.g. the author list of publications originating from this team. De facto this means that per listed supervisor/head of research no more than 2 applications for the same conference can be submitted.
• For short study visits, workshops/courses, and conferences, a maximum of one grant per person and per civil year can be awarded.