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Student Travel Awards
Student Travel Awards
Travel Grant Information for CSZ Annual Meeting – Waterloo 2025
Award
The purpose of this award is to provide funds to selected students or postdoctoral fellows to offset costs of travel to/from the Annual Meeting of the CSZ. The number and value of the awards is subject to available funds, therefore not all applications will be funded.
Eligibility
Students and postdoctoral fellows that are CSZ members are eligible to apply. Applicants must have submitted an abstract with the intent of presenting their research at the conference (either platform or poster).
Application
Please submit a half page request that outlines your name, e-mail address, career stage, the name of your supervisor(s), lab location, and a brief statement outlining the need for financial support. This should be no more than 100 words. Please send application materials by March 14th, 2025 to the Local Organizing Committee at cszsczWaterloo2025@gmail.com.
Decision
For transparency, the awards will be distributed as evenly as possible across all labs attending the conference. The selection of recipients, and the number and value of awards will take into consideration the distance to be traveled to present at the Annual Meeting and travel awards will be assessed in the order they are submitted.
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Caregiver Award Information for CSZ Annual Meeting – Waterloo 2025
Eligibility
To be eligible, an applicant must:
Be a formal member of the CSZ
Be a natural caregiver for whom this role means additional personal costs and a need for financial assistance to attend the CSZ Annual Conference
Be the first author of an oral or poster presentation during the Congress.
Please note that some parental or compassionate arrangements may include requirements that ensure that an individual cannot work (and who may associate participation in a professional Convention with “work”). Applicants are responsible for ensuring that this supplement does not violate their conditions of leave.
Value
The aid provided will be a maximum value of $500. The value of the aid will depend on the number of eligible applications received and the funds available. The sums granted may be used to reduce the associated (but not limited) costs to guarding during the Congress, the travel expenses of another natural caregiver at the venue of the Congress, additional childcare costs for a child who is not present on the premises of the Congress, special family arrangements, etc.
Application Procedure
A brief cover letter including a statement confirming their eligibility; Information about the candidate’s career stage and current position; An overview of commitments and arrangements as a natural caregiver; A brief statement on why the presence at the next CSZ Congress is important for their career development
A budget detailing the total costs of attending the Conference and clearly indicating the additional costs associated with caregiver expenses – this can be a simple table.
The list of other sources of funding available to assist the candidate to participate in the annual CSZ Conference (confirmed or potential).
This should be submitted to the LOC email address no later than March 14th. Address to submit is cszsczWaterloo2025@gmail.com
Further details on the awards can be found here
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