European Society
for Cognitive and
Affective Neuroscience

Call for applications for the
ESCAN Travel Award

Purpose

The goal of the ESCAN Travel Awards is to recognize student researchers by supporting their ability to participate in the society’s biennial meeting. The ESCAN Travel Awards specifically aim to assist predoctoral student members who would not be able to attend the meeting without funding from the Travel Awards program. As such, we evaluate resources provided by your graduate institution, laboratory of training, and aim at including students from European countries which are not widely represented at the meeting. Priorities will be given to students from Southern and Eastern European countries.

The Award

Up to 10 awards will be made available each year of the ESCAN conference. The award package includes:

Recognition in the conference program
Waived conference registration for attendance at the meeting
Waived registration fee for the social dinner
Additional funds for travel costs. This will be € 200 for those traveling by airplane and € 400 for those using non-air traffic.

Eligibility

Must be a student member of ESCAN.
Awardees must not yet have a Ph.D. or other doctoral level degree at the time of the meeting (e.g., be a current PhD student, undergraduate student or post-baccalaureate researcher).
First authorship on a paper or poster presentation that is submitted and accepted for the conference
Awards are dedicated to support students who would not otherwise be able to attend. Applicants with sufficient funds provided by their institution or research lab are requested not to apply for the award. Applicants for the travel award will be required to provide a statement of expected costs and how much is covered by other sources. This will need to be verified with their advisor. Furthermore, travel tickets need to be provided for application for the non-air traffic scheme
Awardees are expected to attend the entire meeting.
Awardees will be limited to one ESCAN Travel Award during their predoctoral training.

How to Apply

Applicants will be chosen primarily based on need and stated commitment to ESCAN. To apply, please submit the following by May 1, 2020, 23:59 CET. Please submit all documents in the aforementioned order, as ONE single pdf file named after the surname of the candidate (e.g., “SURNAME.pdf”)

A copy of the abstract identical to the one that will be submitted to the meeting. Please note that the applicant must be the first author.
Current one-page CV
A 500 word or less statement of:
- Career goals, including planned use of psychophysiology in your work
- Reason for wanting to attend the ESCAN meeting and how attendance of the meeting and ongoing membership in ESCAN will facilitate your career goals
- A statement of your financial need, and detailed breakdown of cost of attending ESCAN and available support from other sources (with a signature from advisor).
- Documentation from the advisor about what other funds are available to you, to cover expenses for travel and lodging associated with attendance at the meeting.

Notification

Applications will be reviewed by the ESCAN board.
Applicants will be notified by June 1, 2020.
Applicants selected for an award must confirm by June 15 that they will attend the meeting. If you are selected but unable to attend, we will offer the award to another student.