[Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] [ECIR 2016] Student Travel Grants, application deadline: 19 Feb. 2016

[Michel Menou]

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Date: 	Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:16:02 -0500
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* ECIR 2016 Student Travel Grants *

The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval

20-23 March 2016
Padua, Italy
Student Travel Grant Deadline: 19 February 2016
http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/
http://twitter.com/ecir2016

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The ECIR 2016 conference is pleased to announce the availability of 10 
student grants made available by BCS (http://irsg.bcs.org/) in addition 
to the 15 student travel grants made available by ELIAS 
(http://elias-network.eu/).

*Grant Scope*
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The ECIR 2016 student travel grant program provides up to 500 euros to 
cover travel, accommodation, and subsistence expenses for full-time 
students who wish to attend ECIR 2016 in Padua.

Due to administrative reasons the grant cannot be used to refund 
registration fees, which has to be paid separately.

*Application Procedure*
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Grant applications should be submitted to

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2016

by selecting the track Student Grant Applications (SGA) by *19 February 
2016*.

Results will be given to applicants on *29 February 2016*.

Only complete applications of students will be considered. Late 
applications will not be considered.

The required documents have to be submitted in a zip file containing:
- a grant application document (pdf)
- a copy of your current student I.D.
- a short letter of support from your supervisor

The grant application 1 to 3 pages (pdf file) should contain the 
following elements:
- Full name, address, university
- Date when you started your PhD
- Topic of the PhD ; supervisor(s)
- Current research, studies, publications, CV related to the conference 
topics
- Why attending the event will be beneficial to you

Criteria for selection are: relevance of the research topic to ECIR; PhD 
year and track record (Preference will be given to students at an 
earlier stage of their career and with evidence of an exceptionally 
strong track record); presentation of a full/short/demo paper; strong 
letter of support. Preference will be given to full-time students 
studying/working in developing countries 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country#List_of_developing_economies) 
and presenting their work (nevertheless, those not presenting at the 
conference are eligible to apply). Preference will also be given to 
those who have no alternative travel support. All applicants must be 
full-time students at the time of the conference.

*Reimbursement*
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Reimbursement will be made after the end of the conference upon 
presentation of the original supporting documents of expenses incurred 
during the event, in accordance with the spending limits specified in 
the guidelines available at:

http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/media/ECIR2016-Student-Travel-Grants-Reimbusement-Guidelines.pdf 


*Grant Committee*
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John Tait (Chair), JohnTait.net <http://johntait.net>, UK
Pavel Braslavski, Ural Federal University / Kontur Labs, Russian Federation
Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina, USA
Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Nils Pharo, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway


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