
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 :
-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 :
-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
Winners will be announced late spring 2025.