SUBMISSION OF FEMS GRANT APPLICATIONS IS NOW CLOSED.
Notification letters have been sent to all grant applicants. Please contact the Congress Secretariat at fems@kenes.com if you did not receive your notification letter.
FEMS Congress Grants for Young Scientist will be available for collection at the Faculty Desk immediately following the Closing Ceremony on Thursday, June 30, 2011.
FEMS provides approximately 200 grants for European Young Scientists to support their attendance at the 4th FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists, June 26-30, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.
About 20 grants are provided to support non-European Young Scientists.
The amounts of the Grants are 400, 500 or 600 EURO (depending on the travel distance).
A special FEMS Congress Award (including a Certificate and an additional 500 EURO) will be awarded to five Young Scientists for the best presented papers.
FEMS will organize a special Reception for all grantees. Further details will be available on this website shortly.
REGULATIONS
A young scientist applying for a FEMS Congress Grant should be:
- A member of a FEMS Member Society, at least one year before Congress takes place (for European Young Scientists);
- Younger than 36 years of age at the closing date of the Congress;
- A working microbiologist;
- The first author of an accepted abstract and attend the Congress;
- Recommended by a member of a FEMS member society (for European Young Scientists), or other senior scientists (for non-European Young Scientists),
- Pay a registration fee after information on grant approval (this is at a special rate of 350 EURO).
- Only
grantees that are present at the Congress will receive a grant.