ECIR 2016 Student Travel Grants

Posted February 3, 2016

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

Grant Scope

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

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

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

John Tait (Chair), 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