Student Travel Grants

The Optica Foundation recognizes and fosters excellence in students and early career professionals to help them begin their careers as scientists, engineers, innovators and technologists. We proudly offer travel grants to support students worldwide to attend CLEO®/Europe – EQEC. The conference programme committee will select the winners.

Grant Details

Grant Details :

–10 grants, in amount of 500,- € each, are available.
-The monetary amounts will be given by bank transfer after the conference.
-Only one travel support grant may be given. Different travel grants cannot be accumulated.

Selection Criteria :

-All PhD Students wishing to attend the conference are invited to apply. Only thesis students can apply, doctoral positions are not accepted.
-The grants will be awarded to PhD Students having not yet defended their thesis at the dates of the conference.
-Recipients must have an accepted oral or poster contribution at the conference.

Application Procedure
Application procedure :

-Applications must be made between October 18, 2024 and January 27, 2025 by using the online CLEO®/Europe – EQEC Conference submission system.
-During submission, a special line item will point to the Optica Foundation Travel Grant Student Awards. If you are interested in applying, just tick the corresponding box during the online submission.
-Below this item, upload a double-page pdf document (.pdf format) with the following content.

Application must include:

Your name, surname, date of birth

Your complete affiliation

The title and the 35-word abstract of your contribution

Starting date of the PhD studies and expected date of the PhD defense

Your list of publications limited to the five most significant articles

A support letter of the supervisor

2025 Grant Winners

Maria Gorizia Ammendola, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Alessandro Baserga, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Niladri Ganguly, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille, France
Jiaqi Li, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Margot Niels, Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Diana Pereira, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Samuel Prescott, Den University College London, London, United Kingdom
Tieme J. Walstra, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Saga Westerberg, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden