ESPID Call for Applications: General Travel Award 2025

The European Society for Paedriatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) calls for applications for its General Travel Award 2025 to support the cost of travel, accommodation, and registration fees for ESPID members to attend scientific meetings, training events, and courses.

The award can also support training visits to other national immunisation technical advisory group (NITAG) meetings by ESPID members who are NITAG members in their own countries

The workshops should be directed at researchers at all levels of qualification from doctoral students to established scientists. The core of the applicants should be ESPID scientists of good standing, yet reaching out to scientists with other specializations (e.g. epidemiologists, microbiologists, immunologists) is encouraged.

The Collaborative Research Meeting Award is available for already established and funded networks, but it is focused on those at an early stage of development, or where wider collaboration across Europe and beyond is being sought. In order to assure sufficient interest in the research topic, which is essential for forming fruitful international collaborations, the application should be signed by researchers from at least three countries.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Applicants must be “good standing” members of ESPID at the time of the submission.
• Applicants must have paid their current subscription before applying.
• Criteria considered in scoring applicants for travel awards (maximum scores in brackets):
  • Younger applicants (80/age in years; for example, if you are 40 years old, you’ll get 2 points but if you are 20 years old, you’ll get 4 points).
  • Applicants who have not previously received ESPID travel awards including the annual meeting travel award. Members will not be eligible to receive more than one travel award under this scheme in any single calendar year (4-(minus)number of previous awards).
  • Applicants who are presenting papers or posters at the meeting. A copy of any submitted abstract and acknowledgement of receipt (and, if available, notification of acceptance) should be submitted with the application for funding (Submitted abstract 1, accepted abstract 2).
  • The scientific value and relevance to Paediatric Infectious Diseases of the proposed visit as judged by the CSAA (2+2=max 4).
  • Applicants from countries in which funding is likely to be limited – link (Lower 3, Lower-middle 2, Upper-middle 1, Upper – 0).
• This award scheme is not available to support attendance of the annual ESPID meeting, for which separate schemes exist (Walter Marget Educational Workshop, ESPID Annual Meeting Travel Award). It also cannot be used for any other ESPID-supported events where separate travel schemes, subsidies, and discounts are in place (e.g., ADVAC Course, Penta, Oxford iic, local ESPID educational courses).
• ESPID will only support one award relating to any one project. If you feel you have a project which more than one award would cover you should select and apply to only one ESPID award.

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Call Expected Timeline:

• Applications must be submitted at least 2 months before the start of the meeting being applied for.
• ESPID aims to respond to all applications within one month.

Ongoing submission ending on the 12th of December 2025.