Event organization
Funding opportunities for organizers of scientific meetings and courses
¹û¶³´«Ã½ encourages effective scientific meeting formats and supports the cost of organization of scientific meetings in the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ area (Europe and neighbouring regions) through the various funding programmes summarised below.
Event grants open to individuals
Expert scientists interested in organizing a scientific event in their research area as part of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Advanced Courses programme can apply for funding from ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â that includes an event organization grant and an allocation for travel awards.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Advanced Courses cover important and timely topics in the molecular life sciences in the form of Lecture Courses, Workshops, Practical Courses, combined Practical and Lecture Courses, and Special Meetings. A strong educational element makes them particularly valuable for early-career researchers.
Calls for proposals are opened twice a year for events to be run in the following year, and applications are assessed by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Advanced Courses Committee.
Event grants open to ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Societies
Education and Science & Society events
Grants for workshops focused on teaching, training and learning in the molecular life sciences are open to members of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Constituent Societies for events held in their own country. This scheme is managed by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Education and Training Committee.
In addition, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ collaborates with ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Constituent Societies in the organization of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Education and Training Committee workshops. ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Societies interested in hosting a workshop should contact the Chair of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Education and Training Committee.
Grants for events (or activities) on a pre-set Science & Society topic are open to ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Constituent Societies. The Science & Society topic in a given year is the subject at the most recent Science & Society special session at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress. The scheme is managed by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Science & Society Committee.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ National Lectures
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Constituent Societies can apply for ¹û¶³´«Ã½ support for a distinguished plenary lecture (a ‘¹û¶³´«Ã½ National Lecture’) to enhance a Society scientific meeting. An engraved glass award is provided by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ for presentation to the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ National Lecturer.
¹û¶³´«Ã½3+ Meetings
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½3+ Meetings programme supports scientific meetings equivalent to an annual national scientific meeting of a Constituent Society but organized through collaboration of at least three ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Constituent Societies. Applications for events in a given year are assessed in the preceding autumn/winter by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress Counsellor in consultation with the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Secretary General and ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Treasurer.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress
The hosting of this flagship event of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ is awarded to a different ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Constituent Society (or Societies) each year. Bids, which should include provision of a pre-Congress Young Scientists’ Forum (YSF) satellite meeting, are invited from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Constituent Societies approximately 3.5 years ahead of the event. More information is available from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress Counsellor.
Event grants open to institutes
¹û¶³´«Ã½ and IUBMB collaborate with the four core research institutions of the ENABLE consortium to offer funding to new research institutions interested in hosting one of the yearly ¹û¶³´«Ã½-IUBMB-ENABLE conference series. The 2022 event was awarded to the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), the 2023 to the University of Cologne, and the 2024 to the Nanyang Technological University – NTU Singapore. The host institution for the 2025 event will be announced soon. For more information on ¹û¶³´«Ã½-IUBMB-ENABLE conferences, visit the event page on this website and the .