*ESEB Conference Travel Award 2026*

The ESEB Conference Travel Award 2026 stipends are for students
and young scientists who are professionally based in countries
with a low GDP to attend the European Meeting of PhD Students in
Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) <https://empsebconf.github.io/> in
Oberwiesenthal, Germany, on June 8^th -12th 2026, or the Evolution meeting
<https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/> of ASN/ESEB/SSB/SSE in Cleveland,
OH, US, on June 20^th -24^th , 2026. The stipend will contribute to
covering travel, living expenses, and early bird congress registration
fees. The funds will be paid out as a reimbursement after the meeting,
based on the specification of the expenses.

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: 30 January 2026*.

Expected decision by the end of February 2026.

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 young lecturers).
  * Scientists working in a country with a high GDP are not eligible.
    High income countries are classified due to the map of the World
    Bank at
    https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025.
  * 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.
    Please note that being chosen for a travel award does not guarantee
    acceptance of a poster or talk at the conference, that the stipend
    will be given based on receipts, and that participation is mandatory
    in order to receive it.

*/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 Evolution meeting 
2026, 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 2026*).

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 at 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's advisor/mentor/senior colleague is 
also required. Support letters should be send to the same email address 
(office@eseb.org) by the applicant's mentor *by the deadline*.

European Society for Evolutionary Biology
https://eseb.org
Email: office@eseb.org

ESEB Office <office@eseb.org>

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