Travel grants for scholarship recipient graduate students for conferences abroad

Technion considers the participation of research graduate students in scientific conferences abroad as highly important. Consequently, the Graduate School supports scholarship recipient students through travel grants. The purpose of these grants is to enable excellent graduate students to actively participate in international scientific conferences, i.e. presenting a paper or poster.

The travel grant is provided on the basis of excellence of the scholarship recipient, as presented / as appears in scientific publications, course grades and recommendation letters.

General Information

A request to receive a travel grant from the graduate school must be submitted through the “Graduate students’ travel abroad / absence from Technion for scholarship recipients” form, with the inclusion of all of the documents required, as stated in the request form. Requests that are submitted without all of the required documents will not be addressed.
An application may be submitted for a paper or poster related to the student’s field of research at the Technion.
The request and required documents must be submitted one month before travel.
The travel grant will only finance part of the travel expenses for participation in the conference. The amount of the School’s travel grant will be determined by a committee (the Graduate School vice Dean and the head of the Scholarships Office) based on the academic achievements and significance of the travel, and subject to budget limitations.
Receiving travel expenses funds for a conference abroad from the Technion Graduate School is subject to supplementary support from the supervisor/academic department.
Answers to requests (positive or negative) are sent to the Technion email addresses of the students.
The travel grant will be provided for travels to conferences held during the scholarship receipt period and for conferences held during the three months after the conclusion of the scholarship.

Criteria for the submission of request for travel grants:

Applications can be submitted by scholarship recipients with a minimum average grade of 85 or above and with a research progress grade of “very good” or above and that the conference they present at takes place during the period in which they receive three scholarship portions or above, or those who were scholarship recipients that present at a conference during the three months following the last month of the scholarship.

Active students in research track who started their studies in a “parallel study” as a scholarship recipient for one or two semesters and have used at least half of the allocated scholarship period in the active degree, may also apply for a conference that takes place beyond three months after receiving scholarships.

The detailed criteria in accordance with the track of studies and the academic standing:

Degree studied		Master’s	Master’s degree with direct continuation to PhD in Technion (including scholarship recipients who receive “bordering” scholarships)	PhD in regular track / PhD in special track	PhD in direct track
Academic state: Approved research topic / Passed the PhD candidacy examination		At least one semester after approval of the research topic	1. Before passing the candidacy examination: provided that no travel scholarship is provided during the studies towards a master’s degree 2. After passing the PhD candidacy examination	After passing the PhD candidacy examination	1. Before passing the candidacy examination: provided that no travel scholarship is provided during the studies towards a master’s degree 2. After passing the PhD candidacy examination
Frequency of the submission of the application		Once during the degree studies	For Section 1 above - one time For Section 2 above - a number of times during the degree studies, but no more than once in each academic year	A number of times during the degree studies, but no more than once in each academic year	For Section 1 above - one time For Section 2 above - a number of times during the degree studies, but no more than once in each academic year

Note to all scholarship recipients: no more than one application may be submitted during an academic year (October – September)

Travel grants from additional sources that must be used before applying for support from the school

Scholarship students who have a travel grant available from another source, as set forth in Sections below, may request a travel grant from the School only after using the funds from the travel grant from the other source.

Travel grants from merit scholarships in the name of and/or merit scholarships outside of Technion

To exercise a merit scholarship grant given by name for participation in conference – presentation of paper and/or poster (Jacobs, Jacobs Qualcomm, Gutwirth, Daniel, Zeff, Fine etc.), please fill “Graduate students’ travel abroad / absence from Technion for scholarship recipients” form according to the form’s guidelines.

The funds of the travel grant from merit scholarships may be exercised during the course of degree studies. These requests are addressed on an ongoing basis.

Travel grant from the Science Liaison Fund

Scholarship recipients studying towards a PhD and who are employed as assistant staff at Technion may request to receive a travel grant from the School only after using funds from the International Science Liaison Fund. Information and guidelines for usage the money from the fund are published at Executive VP of Academic Affaires

For further information regarding travel grants for scholarship recipient graduate students for conferences abroad, please contact the Scholarship Office at 8293098 or via Email.