Course: Latin America Light Microscopy - Train-the-Trainer
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dates: 3-7 June 2024
Regions that are under-served must be presented with fair and equitable opportunities to attend courses organized or supported by Global BioImaging. The selection process will follow a scheme that maximizes the diversity of course participants and ensures equitable access globally. Our selection approach will maximize regional and national diversity amongst travel award grantees.
Any eligible person (see prerequisites for application below) from around the globe is welcome to apply for a travel grant issued by Global BioImaging to attend the course. In addition to regional diversity, further promoting dissemination of knowledge to a broader base, national and institutional diversity will be considered. The number of travel award grantees from the same country will be limited and only one application may be selected from the same institution.
The travel grant application form requires the following:
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:
Higher scores will be awarded to applicants who offer open user access, provide training to users and researchers at their institute.
Suggestions: describe your role in your imaging facility, your daily tasks in a facility e.g. user training, etc.
Higher scores will be awarded to applicants outlining their contribution to their local, national and/or regional imaging communities.
Further info: local imaging community: within institute/university; National imaging community: country-wide; Regional imaging community: involvement of two or more countries/region-wide/continent-wide
Higher scores will be awarded to applicants outlining how they would disseminate the knowledge gained at this course to their colleagues and how the knowledge gained would be used to improve their imaging facility.
Suggestions: provide specific examples of giving talks/seminars, teaching at a workshop/course, etc.
Applicants engaged in imaging communities not traditionally associated with high funding or resources will receive higher scores based on the UN report on Country Classification.
The combined score awarded by all reviewers will be used to rank the applicants.
In the event when two candidates have an identical score, the tiebreaker will be resolved using the following in the order of:
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.
To apply for the travel grant, complete the following form: https://forms.gle/UEVHMSyCvVL8KhTS7
Please note that you must also submit a separate course application form to be considering for the course. If you do not submit an application to the course at a separate link, you will not be considered for the travel grant.
Application deadline: 19 March 2024
The maximal allocated amount per travel grant depends on the origin of travel.
The travel grant covers the following eligible items: