Call: TWAS Grants for Scientific Meetings held in Developing Countries

TWAS offers financial assistance to the organizers of international and regional scientific conferences, workshops, symposia and special meetings in the developing world.

Next deadline: 31 July 2016 for meetings to take place during January-December 2017.

With funds provided by the Italian government, TWAS encourages the organization of high-level international and regional scientific activities in developing countries by offering financial assistance to the organizers of such events. Deadline for applications is 31 July of each year for meetings held in the following year.

Since 1986, TWAS has been supporting scientists and institutions in developing countries through a wide range of programmes including supporting scientific meetings organized in developing countries. With funds provided by the Italian government, TWAS encourages the organization of high level international and regional scientific activities in developing countries by offering financial assistance to the organizers of conferences, workshops, symposia and special meetings held in these countries.

Grants are offered for meetings in the following fields of natural sciences: agricultural, biological, chemical, engineering, geological and medical sciences. Grants are not offered for meetings in physics and mathematics; these fields are covered by a similar programme sponsored by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

• Support is normally provided in the form of travel grants for principal speakers from abroad and/or participants from developing countries other than the country where the meeting is held. The amount provided normally does not exceed USD5,000.
• Special consideration will be given to those meetings that are likely to benefit the scientific communitiy in developing countries and promote regional and international cooperation in science, technology and innovation and their applications to real-world problems.
• TWAS only considers applications made by organizers of international and regional scientific meetings in developing countries. TWAS does not provide support to individual scientists wishing to attend a scientific event, even if the event is taking place in a developing country.
• The grant is intended only for air tickets.
• TWAS must be acknowledged as a co-sponsor in all material and websites related to the supported activity.
• Funds can only be released after the meeting and upon receipt of the original used ticket stubs and boarding passes of the participants benefiting from the grant.
• Immediately after the meeting, organizers should send TWAS a final narrative and financial report, the final scientific programme and the list of participants and lecturers.
• All documentary evidence needed to release funds from TWAS must be submitted by the organizers within six months from the end of the meeting.

For more details on the application process please visit: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas-grants-scientific-meetings-held-developing-countries 

For enquiries please contact: Ms. P. Patel, TWAS, ICTP Campus, Via Beirut 6, 34151 Trieste, Italy, e-mail: scientificmeetings@twas.org