*ESEB Conference Travel Award* These stipends are for students and young scientists who are professionally based in countries with a low GDP to attend the next European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) in 2025, the ESEB congress in Barcelona, Spain (https://eseb2025.com/), or the Evolution 2025 meeting (https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/) in Athens, Georgia, USA. The stipend will contribute to covering travel, living expenses, and the early bird congress registration fee (for EMPSEB or Evolution 2025). The funds will be paid out as a reimbursement after the congress, based on specification of the expenses. Note that the registration fee for the ESEB2025 congress will be waived by the organisers and thus does not need to be included in the budget. Please note that this Conference Travel Award is distinct from the Congress Attendance Aid Grant (https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/equal-opportunities-initiative/congress-attendance-aid-grant/), which is designed to promote the attendance of under-represented groups and to help with the additional costs of meeting attendance due to responsibilities for caring for dependents when attending the meetings and NOT for the costs of the applicant to attend the meeting. DEADLINE: 10th February 2025 ELIGIBILITY: - Applicants must be ESEB members before the deadline (for becoming an ESEB member, please visit https://eseb.org/society/eseb-membership/). - Applications can be submitted by scientists at various stages of their professional career (e.g., Masters and PhD students, postdocs, and lecturers). - Scientists working in a country with high GDP are not eligible (for the list of excluded countries see below). - People who received an ESEB travel stipend in the last five years are not eligible. - Applicants must apply to present either an oral communication or a poster to be eligible for the stipend. Presentation of a talk or a poster will be verified before the reimbursement, but no proof that a poster or talk is accepted is necessary at the application stage. However, please note that being chosen for a travel award does not guarantee acceptance of a poster or talk at the conference. - Please note that these stipends are given in conjunction with analogous stipends offered by the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE; separate call) to support participation at the ESEB2025 congress or Evolution meeting 2025, so there is no need to apply to both the ESEB and the SSE awards. HOW TO APPLY: Send your application by email to the ESEB Office (office@eseb.org; subject: Conference Travel Award 2025). The application should be no more than 2 pages long and include: - Name of the applicant; - ESEB membership number; - Budget (currency = EUR), including sources of additional support; - An explanation of how attendance to the meeting will support the attendant’s professional goals; - and a short CV. Please submit the application as a single PDF-file. A support letter from the applicant advisor/mentor/senior colleague is also required. Support letters should be sent to the same email address (office@eseb.org) by the applicant’s mentor _BY THE DEADLINE_. Members professionally based in the following high income countries are _NOT_ eligible for the travel stipend: American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Chile, Croatia, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea Rep., Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Nauru, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin (Dutch and French part), Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Virgin Islands (US). European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Email: office@eseb.org Website: https://eseb.org ----- **Congress Attendance Aid Grant** The grant aims to ensure equal opportunities at the 30th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) or the ESEB Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The grant aims to achieve this by increasing the attendance of underrepresented groups, primarily, but not solely, caregiving women (who due to higher costs of childcare are often prevented from attending), through positive discrimination. The grant provides stipends of financial aid for scientists to help with the additional costs borne privately due to responsibilities for dependents when attending one of the above mentioned meetings. For example, stipends can cover dependent care or personal travel expenses. Applicants may request between 250 to 500 Euro for EMPSEB attendance and between 250 to 750 Euro for ESEB attendance. Higher amounts are awarded to those travelling further or to those from countries with less access to funding. Please note that this grant is distinct from the ESEB Conference Travel Award (https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/conference-travel-award/), which is designed to help young researchers who are professionally based in low income countries with the travel costs to attend the meeting and is NOT meant for other under-represented groups or to support additional costs due to caring for dependents when attending the meeting. DEADLINE: 10th February 2025 ELIGIBILITY - Applicants must be ESEB members (for becoming a member of ESEB please visit our membership page: https://eseb.org/society/eseb-membership/. - Applications can be submitted by scientists at any stages of their professional career (e.g., undergraduate, Masters and PhD students, postdocs, and lecturers). - Applicants must explain explicitly how their attendance will increase equal opportunities at the society. - Applicants must present either an oral communication or a poster at the respective meeting to be eligible for the award. This will be verified before the reimbursement, but no proof that a poster or talk is accepted is necessary at the application stage. Please note that being chosen for a travel award does not guarantee acceptance of a poster or talk at the conference. - Applicants must detail how they intend to use the grant. Eligible costs include, but are not limited to: childcare on site, childcare at home, extra care at home for dependents, extra travel costs for babysitter (grandparents) etc. - The stipend will be paid out as a flat rate of 250 € (in certain cases up to 500 €) after the congress when confirmation of attendance & presentation is provided. HOW TO APPLY The application should be no more than 2 pages long and include: - Name of the applicant - ESEB membership number - An explanation of how attendance at the meeting improves equal opportunities at ESEB - An explanation of how attendance at the meeting will further the attendant’s professional goals - Itemised budget in Euro - CV Please submit the application as a single PDF file by email to Ute Friedrich at the ESEB office (office@eseb.org; subject: CAA grant 2025) and take care to limit the size of attachments (total < 10 MB) in any one email. ---- European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Email: office@eseb.org Website: https://eseb.org ESEB Office (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)