BES Facebook pageMeeting Attendance Sponsorship
Support is offered to ecologists (including students) to attend events for which the Society has elected to provide support. Grants are normally made towards travel, subsistence and/or registration costs. Occasionally, grants are made to support key or plenary speakers. Events that are typically supported include the European Ecological Federation Congress and the INTECOL Congress, as well as one-off events organised by individuals or other academic societies. Awards may be administered either through the event organiser or may be made directly to delegates, on application to the BES. In all cases, details of events to be supported and methods of application are advertised in the Bulletin and on this webpage.
The BES has now fully allocated all the funds for this grant. Please return to this page next year for the latest information.
Students and others can apply for funding to cover travel costs as follows:
* EEF 2011- up to £400 or 75% of the cost, which ever is smaller
Students who are also BES members may in addition apply for funding to cover 50% of the costs of registration, accommodation and meals.
Priority will be given to those intending to give presentations. Applications will continue to be accepted until either all the funding has been allocated or the meeting has taken place. No retrospective claims for funding will be considered.
Only students receiving a stipend of less than £15,000 or un-employed post-docs may apply for the student support portion of this grant.
This grant is only open to current BES members. Exceptions to this being undergraduates who can apply without having to be a BES member.
Applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application within 6 weeks of applying.
Awardees will be paid after the conference has taken place, on receipt of a certificate of attendance and appropriate receipts.
There are a limited number of grants available. When meetings are listed above application is by Application Form and it should be completed and returned as soon as possible to the BES. Please also fill in and submit a Monitoring Form [Adobe PDF, 68 Kb] to help us with our applicant monitoring statistics.
Committee responsible for the grant:
Meetings Committee
