The Company of Biologists - Scientific Meeting Grants

The Company considers funding requests from the organisers of a range of charitable activities deemed to lie within its remit. These include, but are not limited to, meetings, workshops and conferences in the fields covered by our journals, support of young scientists and funding for plenary or keynote speakers attending meetings.

Criteria Required for Funding

• Proposal is in an area of research which relates to a Company journal
• Funds to organisers of conferences/workshops
• Proposal is supportive of young scientists attending a conference/workshop
• Proposal in support of visiting plenary speaker at a conference/workshop, etc.

Restrictions on Applications

The Company is unable to sponsor any of the following:

• Expenditure on capital equipment and capital building proposals
• Removal expenses
• Undergraduate expeditions and courses
• Prizes, e.g. posters
• Social/political networking
• Conference dinners/social events/refreshment breaks
• Tuition fees
• Payments for the employment of staff
• Abstract books
• Series of meetings year on year
• Intra-institutional events, e.g. departmental seminars, etc.

Application Form

Guidelines to completing the application form.

• The applicant who completes the form must be in the organising group for the meeting. Applications from professional fund-raisers will not be considered.
• Incomplete application forms will not be considered.
• Please ensure that you attach information on the topics/outline programme, speakers/proposed speakers and the outline budget for the whole meeting.
  Please keep this information to a maximum of six pages in total.
• Although there are no rigid rules, the Company would normally expect grants to be broadly proportional to the size of the meeting. Typically, they are awarded in a sliding scale where meetings with fewer than 100 people are given up to £2,000; over about 400 people up to £6,000. Exceptionally, these limits are exceeded, but in most cases special justification is expected.
• Please note that whilst the quality of science remains paramount, the Company would prefer to support meetings and events where organisers have sought maximal feasible diversity in speakers in terms of geography, gender and age. In addition, where attendance at events is selective, then we would expect such issues to also be influential. The Company invites applicants to make a statement on these issues in their application for funding.
• Funding requests must be in GBP Sterling.
• Application forms and supporting information must be written in English.

Acknowledgement of Funding

As part of our agreement to provide funding, we request that should your application be successful you acknowledge The Company of Biologists' contribution to the meeting on your website and in any printed material circulated about the event, such as the abstracts book. We would ask that this acknowledgement include the company name, logo and web address. Upon grant approval we will issue a Grant Agreement which will need to be signed and returned along with your bank details. We also require a 250 – 500 word summary of the meeting including an assessment of the impact and outcome of the meeting within 3 months of the meeting date.

Application Deadlines

The deadline dates for application forms are as follows:

• 21 January 2015 (Decision early March)
• 25 March 2015 (Decision early May)
• 24 June 2015 (Decision end of July)
• 9 September 2015 (Decision early November)

A decision is made once the Grants Committee have met and put together their recommendations to the next Board Meeting.

Download Application Form

If you have any questions regarding these grants please email the Charity Administrator.

vložila: Darina Koubínová