AETE Student Travel Grant

The board of the AETE recognizes that presenting research at conferences is vital aspect of a student’s professional, educational and research development. Furthermore, student involvement in our conferences is fundamental to further develop our research community.

AETE Student Travel Grant will make a partial financial contribution to student presenters attending our annual international conference, subject to available funds. The number of available grants will be announced on February 15^th each year. If awarded, the student will receive the bursary after the conference using electronic money transfer. The precise value will be specified, but up to a maximum of 250€ per awardee. The award can be used to cover costs associated with the travel, the hotel and the registration for our AETE conference. 

The grant is for students wishing to present their work as a first author during one of the short oral presentation/poster sessions at the next AETE conference. It is mandatory that the student is the first author of the abstract. To be eligible, you must:

• Be registered as a Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. student at a college or university at the time of submitting the application.
• Be a member of the AETE, or take out membership if awarded the travel grant.  Note: conference registration fee includes one-year membership fee.
• Have submitted (as a first author) an abstract for presentation at the AETE annual conference before the the last abstract submission deadline.  Note: Submit your travel grant application before the Travel Grant deadline. Accept to present your master or PhD research project in a short oral format during the student lunch (first day of the AETE conference). Further information on formatting will be given by August 1^st each year.
• Accept to write a 250 words article about your Master’s or PhD project (general aims and concept) for the Newsletter in July. This should highlight the potential practical impact of the research. This abstract shall be submitted no later than July 1^st each year to studentTG@AETE.eu (mail subject: Newsletter article_Name). This is NOT the research abstract that is submitted to be presented orally or by poster at the Conference.

EXEMPTIONS:

• As well as applying for the Travel Bursary, you may also apply for the student competition. However, since the 5 student competition finalists are reimbursed for their travel costs, if you are selected as one of the 5 finalists to participate in the student competition your travel award application will be cancelled and excluded from the final selection procedure. 
•  Only one student per abstract can apply.
• You may only receive one AETE travel grant during your career.
• Advisors/supervisors can write only one recommendation letter per conference per submission round. 

If you meet the above requirements, please click the box “Travel Grant” when you submit your abstract through the Conftool system and send an email with subject “AETE Student travel Grant” to studentTG@AETE.eu, containing the following information:

·       THE LETTER OF SUPPORT (Supervisor)

• A letter on official letterhead from your supervisor (or the chair of the department) is mandatory. This letter should contain a statement by the supervisor declaring you are a bachelor, master or PhD student under their supervision. The letter must be in the form of a pdf, and it must be provided to the student to attach to his or her application. 
• If we receive recommendation letters for multiple students from the same research group, we will reject all submissions from that group. 

 THE LETTER OF Application (Student)

• You must write a letter stating why you’re applying for this travel grant. Also, in the letter you must declare that you will write a short text for the July Newsletter and will take part in the Travel Grant oral presentation program during the student lunch at our AETE conference. 
• This letter has to be signed by you and your supervisor. Provide full names and full affiliation details. 

Each application MUST BE APPROPRIATELY SUBMITTED IN PDF FORMAT (ONE FILE ONLY). Incomplete, poorly assembled or late applications will not be considered. Applications should be submitted electronically via email to studentTG@AETE.eu by the last abstract submission deadline. 

Within two weeks after the submission deadline, applicants will be notified that their application meets eligibility requirements and on the completeness of your submitted file. If it does not, your application will be excluded from further processing.

•      FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR APPLICATION

A provisionally accepted application becomes fully accepted application once the abstract submitted by the student is peer-reviewed and accepted for the AETE conference. The applicant will receive an e-mail (Conftool system) notifying the acceptance or rejection of the abstract by mid-June. 

•      SELECTION PROCEDURE

Once all applications are judged to be eligible and abstracts have been accepted, awards will be made by random ballot. 

·       NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE

Awardees will be contacted by email before June 20^th each year. Payment of the travel award will be after the AETE conference (September) if awardees fully met all the requirements as listed above.