Travel Grant for Exchange of Experience 2025

Applications are open until March 5, 2025. The Application form is linked below the travel grant information.

Purpose

Under-served regions must have fair and equitable opportunities to attend the Global BioImaging events. Therefore, the selection process for travel grants will follow a scheme that maximizes diversity and ensures equitable access globally. Our selection approach will maximize regional and national diversity among grantees.

Equitable and diverse:

Anyone around the Globe is welcome to apply! In addition to regional diversity and further promoting the subsequent dissemination of knowledge to a broader base, national and institutional diversity will be considered. The number of grantees from the same country will be limited, and only one application may be selected from the same institution. Lastly, efforts will be made to ensure equal gender representation.

Prerequisites for application

  • You must be employed by a nonprofit research institution such as an institute or university
  • Your day-to-day work must involve one or more aspects of image acquisition, data management, image analysis, and/or image data reuse.
  • You work in an imaging facility or enable imaging support: as an imaging facility manager or staff, as an image analyst providing image analysis as a service or work with image data management systems/workflows.
  • If you have been awarded a GBI grant within the past 18 months prior to the event (October 2025), you are not eligible to apply.

Application:

The travel grant application must contain the following:

  • Applicant's role in an institute/imaging facility
  • Applicant's role in their local, national and/or regional imaging community
  • How the applicant plans to disseminate the knowledge gained in this course
  • Limited personal information such as gender for gender balance statistics and anonymized reporting

Selection criteria

The selection process will be based on information obtained from the submitted applications. A selection committee will review all travel grant applications and each member of the selection panel will score each application based on the following:

1. Dissemination of the knowledge gained at the conference (up to 5 points)

Higher scores will be awarded to applicants outlining how they would disseminate the knowledge gained in this conference to their colleagues and how it would be used to improve their imaging facility.

2. Contribution to the local and/or regional imaging community (up to 3 points)

Higher scores will be awarded to applicants outlining their contribution to their local and/or regional imaging community.

3. Applicant's role at their institute and/or imaging facility (up to 2 points)

Higher scores will be awarded to applicants who offer open user access, provide training to users and researchers at their institute.

In the event that two candidates have an identical score, the tiebreaker will be resolved using the following in the order:

  • The applicant comes from a country not represented by another successful applicant with a higher score
  • The applicant has the most significant potential to disseminate the knowledge gained at the course
  • The applicant is listed first alphabetically by surname

The remaining eligible applicants will be placed on the waiting list. Should a selected successful applicant not be able to attend the course, the next highest-ranked applicant on the waiting list will be offered the travel grant.

Travel grant details

The maximum amount provided per each travel grant is 2500 EUR.

The travel grant covers the following eligible items:

  • Travel costs, including air travel and public transportation
  • Accommodation costs
  • Visa application fees

To apply for the travel grant, please complete our Application form.

For applicants based in the US, Canada or Mexico: please note that we cannot provide travel grants to individuals based in the US due to funding constraints. Applicants resident in the US, Canada or Mexico APPLY HERE by noon Pacific time, Wednesday March 5, 2025.

For questions concerning travel grants, please contact Sophie Winter at the following e-mail address: [email protected]