Student Travel Grants – 2nd Call
If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2024 and you have not obtained the grant in the first travel grant call, you may be eligible to apply for travel grants to support travel and lodging costs. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Awardees will make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation. The award should be used to pay costs related to attending the conference. The costs will be reimbursed in due time, given the proof of expenses.
Applying for a Student Travel Award
The deadline for applying for the 2nd call of ISWC 2024 travel award is September 10th, 2024. Please make sure that you have submitted your application and that your supervisor has sent us a confirmation email by this date.
To apply for a grant, please follow these steps:
- Make sure that you are eligible to apply for an ISWC 2024 travel award: You must currently be a student at a higher education institution; and you have not already received the Student Travel Award of ISWC 2024 in the first call (closed on July 15th), and
- you have an ISWC 2024 submission that has been accepted to either the main conference, the doctoral consortium, an ISWC 2024 workshop, the poster/demo session, or the Semantic Web challenge (you may have submissions to more than one of these categories).
- you do not have an accepted submission. (if there are additional funds available, we will also consider supporting other students).
- Fill out and submit the ISWC 2024 Student Travel Award Application Form.
- Ask your supervisor to email the student grants chairs (iswc.2024.student.grant@gmail.com), confirming that you are a current student under their supervision and that you will be attending ISWC 2024. The subject of the email should be “ISWC 2024 Student Travel Award Application Verification for {YOUR NAME}”. The text should read “I confirm that {YOUR NAME} is a student that is currently under my supervision at {INSTITUTION NAME} and that they will be attending ISWC 2024 to present work that they completed under my supervision. I am able to support {YOUR NAME}’s travel up to ${AMOUNT}. {SUPERVISOR NAME}”
- Register for ISWC 2024 here.
You will receive a notification by September 30th, 2024.
Award Details
The exact amount awarded to each student will depend on the needs stated in the application and the kind of submission that they have in ISWC 2024. Preference will be given to students who are the first authors of papers accepted to the main conference or the doctoral consortium, followed by those who are the first authors of papers accepted to ISWC workshops and the Poster & Demo session. If additional funds are available, we will also consider supporting students who do not have papers at the conference.
This year, we will consider supporting travel companions for attendees with special needs and aim to support a diverse group of students (e.g., gender, nationality, ethnicity, type of institution, and geographic location). If you have any questions or would like to discuss your specific requirements, please do not hesitate to contact the student grants chairs (iswc.2024.student.grant@gmail.com).
Service Requirement
Awardees are expected to volunteer at the conference activities (e.g., registration desk, session assistance, AV tables, workshops, etc) for a number of hours during ISWC 2024. You get to pick your time slots upon availability. So, we will collaborate to enable everyone not to miss anything they want to attend.
Student Travel Award Sponsors
Student Grant Chairs
Veruska Zamborlini
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
contact: veruska.zamborlini@ufes.br
Diego Torres
LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
contact: dtorres@lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar
Roberto Yus
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, U.S.
contact: ryus@umbc.edu
Contact: iswc.2024.student.grant@gmail.com