Purpose of the financial support:
In the spirit of encouraging and promoting academic excellence, the Jerusalem Brain Community (JBC), supports JBC students’ participation in courses, workshops and conferences abroad, where they will present a lecture or a poster.
The Community provides students with travel grants which cover partial travel expenses.
Grant Terms:
· Must be a student or post-doctoral intern from a lab of a JBC member.
· Participation in a course/workshop must be relevant to the student's field of studies; participation in a conference must require the student to present his/her work – either as a lecture or a poster.
· A recipient of a JBC Travel Grant, must leave for the conference no later than 6 months from the day of receiving the fellowship.
· Grants will also be given retroactively, up to six months from the date of travel.
Amount of Grant:
· The grant varies between $500 - $1000 depending on the conference location.
· Payment will be made in one of the following ways:
a) Directly to the travel agency for purchasing the ticket, as long as the ticket has been ordered by either “Ophir Tours” or “Diesenhaus”.
b) As reimbursement of purchasing the ticket independently, or alternatively, as reimbursement for accommodations or registration fees – as long as original invoices and receipts will be submitted.
Submission Dates:
· Candidates may apply only once a year.
· Requests will be reviewed by an academic committee of JBC members nominated on an annual basis.
Please upload the following documents to the 'Documents Upload' folder according to the instructions:
· JBC Application form (Online Application Form)
· A letter of recommendation typed in English from either the PhD advisor or the post-doctoral host with the
student's academic achievements, as well as, the importance of his/her participation in the specific
course/workshop/conference. The letters should be sent by the referee according to this mechanism.
· Travel approval form – please fill in sections 1, 2 and 4 only.
· Conference registration and payment confirmations (up to 4 documents).
· Abstract of the work that will be presented.
Consideration will be given only to complete applications.
Last date to submit applications is February 1st