Travel Grants

FEBS YTF Grants and IUBMB Trans-YTF Grant

A limited number of FEBS Youth Travel Funds (YTF) Grants are available to support participation of early-career scientists in this course. These funds will cover the registration fee (including costs of event meals, and shared accommodation in a twin room), up to a maximum of 500 EUR per person.  The selection of applicants to receive FEBS YTF awards will be carried out by the course organizers, and approved by the FEBS Treasury Office according to the FEBS YTF Grants eligibility criteria (also shown below).

There will also be an IUBMB Transcontinental-YTF (Trans-YTF) Grant available for a PhD student or a postdoctoral scientist from outside the FEBS area, provided by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB). More information will be made available by the course organizers. Details on the eligibility criteria of the IUBMB Trans-YTF Grant, which is up to $2,000 to help with registration and travel costs, is available from the FEBS website (also shown below).

Application and notification of outcome:

Please indicate within the Application Form of the Brixen Proteomics Summer School that you would like to apply for a FEBS YTF Grant. Please check carefully if you are eligable for this grant, provide all required information as requested in the application form, and send proof of your society membership to info@brixenproteomics.org.

Applicants selected by the course organizers will be notified and receive a FEBS Treasury YTF form, to be returned to the FEBS Treasury for approval approximately 8 weeks before the event's start date.

Eligibility criteria for FEBS YTF Grant applicants:

• The applicant should not be older than 35, should be registered as a PhD student at an institute of higher learning in a country where there is a FEBS Constituent Society (i.e., within the FEBS area) or should be a postdoctoral scientist within five years of having completed a PhD thesis, working in a country where there is a FEBS Constituent Society.
• The applicant must be a member of a FEBS Constituent Society and must provide evidence of membership.
• The applicant must not have received a grant from FEBS to attend a FEBS AC in the current year or previous year, nor a bursary to attend the FEBS Congress in the current year, nor a grant to attend the FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum (FEBS YSF) in the current year.
• The applicant cannot be a resident of the country where the course will be held.
• Young scientists from the organizers’ laboratories are not eligible for FEBS YTF Grants.
• The total number of meeting awards the applicant has previously received from FEBS (FEBS Congress bursary, FEBS YSF grant, and FEBS YTF award for previous FEBS AC) may also be taken into consideration in the selection.

Eligibility criteria for IUBMB Trans-YTF Grant applicants:

• The IUBMB Trans-YTF Grant awardee should work and have current residence in a country that has an IUBMB-adhering body but does not have a FEBS Constituent Society (i.e., outside the FEBS area).
• The applicant should not be older than 35, should be registered as a PhD student at an institute of higher learning in a country where there is an IUBMB-adhering body but not a FEBS Constituent Society, or should be a postdoctoral scientist within five years of having completed a PhD thesis, working in a country where there is an IUBMB-adhering body but not a FEBS Constituent Society.
• The applicant must be a member of an IUBMB-adhering body and must provide evidence of membership.
• The applicant should not have received a grant from FEBS to attend a FEBS AC in the current year or previous year, nor a bursary to attend the FEBS Congress in the current year, nor a grant to attend the FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum in the current year.
• Awards will only be made to support travel from the applicant’s current country of residence to the country hosting the FEBS AC. The applicant must have resided in their country of residence for at least six months before applying for the grant.
• Young scientists from the organizers’ laboratories are not eligible for IUBMB Trans-YTF Grants.

Other travel grants

The FEBS Advanced Lecture Course 'Advanced proteomics' provides additional travel grants. Please visit the Brixen Proteomics Summer School website for more details, as well as for suggestions of other organizations that might support the attendance of participants at the course.