Student support, seed money, and more. Got a tip for a program that funds protist research? Contact the Vice President.
Society funding: The Holz-Conner Travel Fund provides funding for travel to Society meetings. Visit the Awards page to learn more.
Grant-in-aid
Grants-in-Aid provide support for other protistology societies that have taken the formal steps to become an ISOP Section. A list of eligible sections is posted on the ISOP website. Address questions about affiliated society status to the Vice President. These awards are intended to stimulate novel programs of the sections, including uniquely-themed meetings or special opportunities. Applications for support of regular periodic meetings will generally not be successful.
The maximum award is 5,000 USD per application, the total budget for this year is 10,000 USD
- Deadline: 1 February 2020
- A decision will be announced by March 1st, 2020 (funding period until April 2021).
- Please submit your application form to ISOP Vice President.
Grant-in-aid 2018
In 2018 ISOP committed USD 10,000 to fund the activities of the following affiliated societies:
- USD 5,000 to support the XXII meeting (ISEP18) of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology jointly organized with Protistology-UK.
- USD 2,000 to support the 48th Jírovec’s Protozoological Days organized by Protozoological section of the Czech Society for Parasitology.
- USD 1,000 to support the 9th International Symposium on Testate Amoebae (ISTA 9) organized by the International Society for Testate Amoeba Research.
- USD 1,000 to support the International Symposium on Ciliate Biology (ISCB 2018) organized by the International Research Coordination Network on Biodiversity of Ciliates.
- USD 1,000 to support the 37th Annual Meeting of the German Protozoological Society.
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