BES Facebook pageMeeting Sponsorship
Meetings generally tend to take one of two forms: workshops and commemorative events. Workshops may take many formats but should include two-way dialogue between participants to seek answers to specific, topical questions. Commemorative events such as lectures, should honour important figures or events in the history of ecology. As with all meetings that the BES funds, the issues addressed should be clearly focused on ecology. 
With workshops priority is given to applications that include training for ecologists of graduate level and beyond, have an innovative content and an organising committee of individuals from more than one institution. In addition, secondary importance will be given where attendance is not totally by invitation only (although the need to restrict numbers is recognised) and where some provision is made to subsidise travel costs of delegates other than invited speakers.
Applications will not be considered for the cost of publications which may arise from a meeting, to prepare for, or report on, specific funding opportunities or research programmes, institutional costs or overheads, meetings which are restricted to senior practitioners only. Funding will generally not be available for general conference activities but consideration will be given to specific workshops / discussion / min-symposium sessions within a larger meeting as long as the criteria listed below are met. Workshops and Commemorative events which are supported should be publicised in advance through the BES Bulletin.
Value of the award :
not normally more than £2,000 for workshops, not normally more than £1000 for commemorative events
Conditions :
Applications must be for meetings which take place at least seven months after the application deadline. Successful applicants are required to produce a report of the event within three months of it taking place.
Applications must not exceed four sides of A4.
Closing dates :
1st May, 1st October
Application :
A Workshop Sponsorship Application Form [MS Word, 58 Kb] can be downloaded from here.
A Commemorative Event Application Form [MS Word, 57 Kb] can be downloaded from here.
Submissions are only accepted if one of the above BES application forms is used. Applications can be posted to the Grants Officer at the British Ecological Society or sent by email to grants.
Committee responsible for the grant :
Meetings Committee
