Travel bursaries to attend an AVA meeting

The AVA has a travel bursary scheme, which provides funding to help postgraduates to attend AVA meetings.

The maximum award to any one individual is 100 UK pounds (150 UK pounds for meetings in mainland Europe).  This can be used towards meeting registration, travel and accommodation costs.  A number of bursaries will be made available for each AVA conference, and applications should be received by the Secretariat by the abstract submission deadline.  The closing date for bursaries to attend an AVA meeting is posted on the web page of  that meeting.

We expect applicants to seek the most cost-effective means of attending the meeting.  Accommodation will be funded only if essential to full participation in the meeting. You cannot claim the cost of AVA membership as part of this award, although you can still join the AVA via the registration plus membership “special offer” when registering for the meeting.  You are expected to apply only for your anticipated costs, and to provide full details of these anticipated costs within your application.

Applicants must be PhD students at a university in Europe, or must not have started their first post-doc job. All applicants must also submit an abstract for presentation at the meeting in question.

To apply for an award, you need to complete an application form and send it to the Secretariat as an e-mail attachment, along with your abstract.  Note that you will also need to submit the abstract separately to the meeting organiser for peer review.  In addition, you must ask your supervisor to complete the supervisor form and e-mail it direct to the Secretariat.  The e-mail address for applications, and to request the forms, is: gillian.porter@bristol.ac.uk. You may also download the forms from the links above.