Meetings

The International EPR/ESR Society (IES) is pleased to announce a that the travel award for PhD  students and fixed-term contract post-doctoral researchers to attend IES sponsored conferences will continue in 2026. Each award will provide funding of up to 750 $ (US) to cover conference related expenses, with one award for each eligible conference:  RSC ESR 2026 (Colchester, UK); EUROMAR 2026 (Gothenburg, Sweden); Rocky Mountain Conference 2026 (Utah, US); EF-EPR (Brno, Czech Republic); APEERS 2026 (Saitama City, Japan); SCM 2026 (Padua, Italy).

No more than one award per year will be made to the same research group. A group is defined as all PhD and post-doctoral researchers under the supervision of the same principal supervisor. Where a student is co-supervised across two groups, the full allocation of the award must be attributed to one (principal) supervisor only, and this must be clearly stated in the application.

The PhD student or fixed-term contract post-doctoral researcher should write a short case for the merit of their attendance at the conference and how the IES grant will enable this. They should include their abstract for their conference contribution. These should be emailed to the group secretary, along with a short letter of support from their supervisor on headed paper and including a signature.

Travel awards will be decided on the basis of a valid case being presented, and in order of the applications being made. Deadline for application is the registration deadline of the respective conference.

Successful candidates should indicate the support of the IES during their conference contribution.

The applicant and their supervisor should be an existing member of the IES. Successful applicants, who are awarded once, cannot apply again.

The stipend will be presented after the conference on receipt of a certificate of attendance at the conference, together with a list of encountered travel/registration costs and a short article on their experiences of the conference for the IES Newsletter.

Two poster awards will be presented at each of the above listed conferences. The IES are also sponsoring the GRC, HYP26, ICESR and FBNL-MR meetings in 2026 but with direct contributions to their costs rather than travel and poster awards.