ESPID Call for Applications: Postgraduate Teaching Visits To Resource Poor Countries
The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) offers Postgraduate Teaching Visits To Resource Poor Countries. The aim of this scheme is to provide encouragement and support to ESPID members wishing to devote time to PID teaching and training activities in resource poor countries. For support, visits should be by ESPID members at the written invitation of the host institution. Support is offered for transport costs only. It is expected that the visitor and/or his/her employee should provide their time gratis and that the hosts will cover accommodation and subsistence costs of the visitor during the visit.
The visit should be to contribute to an established programme of post-graduate medical or scientific education related directly to paediatric infectious diseases or to which PID teaching is directly relevant and a component part.
What is covered:
- Economy class travel expenses only. Please note that this is scheme falls outside of ESPID’s normal Expense Reimbursement rules.
- Guidelines for funding are: A typical award will be for approx Euro 1,000-1,500 (e.g. for a standard class intercontinental flight and related ground transportation costs).
Essential/Desirable Criteria:
- Must be “good standing” ESPID member at the time of the deadline (click here to download the ESPID “good standing” member criteria) and membership fees must be paid up in full before the application will be processed.
- Previous post graduate teaching experience in PID, preferably with documentation of positive student/delegate feedback.
Application deadlines are every 3 months (1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December) and should be made at least 2 months before the proposed date(s) of the visit. Up to 10 such awards, will be funded annually provided applications of sufficient quality are received.
Read more here.
Proposals deadline December 1, 2022.
