Deadline: 30-Nov-2025
The SEARCA offers Travel Grants Program to support professionals, social scientists, and graduate students in the region.
The grant aims to enable Southeast Asian nationals to participate in and present papers at local or international scientific conferences, with priority given to paper presentations. It seeks to promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge that supports the sustainable transformation of agriculture in the region, foster dialogue among researchers and scholars, strengthen collaborations between SEARCA and partner institutions, and encourage the publication of research outputs as articles or policy briefs.
The grant covers eligible cost items such as event registration fees, airfare, accommodation, local transportation, meals not covered by the event, and visa application expenses, provided that the total cost does not exceed USD 1,200.
Each grant provides to qualified agriculture and agriculture-related professionals, social scientists, or graduate students in Southeast Asia. Applicants must be nationals of Southeast Asian countries including Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.
The paper should be aligned with SEARCA’s priority thrusts that contribute to outcomes such as increased farmers’ income, improved food security and nutrition, greater climate resilience of agricultural systems, and empowered farmers, farmer groups, and agricultural stakeholders and their institutions.
Priority is given to SEARCA Fellows (senior, adjunct, and visiting research fellows), SEARCA graduate scholarship alumni, researchers at SEARCA-implemented or coordinated projects, SFRT grantees, proponents from the University Consortium, SEARCA ongoing scholars, and faculty and staff of universities under SEARCA’s Institutional Development Assistance Program.
The second priority group includes regular staff members of nonprofit development-oriented institutions and graduate students at agricultural universities in Southeast Asia that are not University Consortium members. Former travel grantees may re-apply if their previous grant was awarded more than three years before the new application.
Applicants are required to acknowledge SEARCA in their presentations, submit a publishable article, policy brief, or research note, and share their findings through SEARCA’s Agriculture and Development Seminar Series or the SEARCA Online Learning and Virtual Engagement Webinar Series.
Applications must be submitted online through the SEARCA Grants Information System. Submissions via email or hard copies will not be processed. Required documents include a letter of interest, a recommendation letter (if applicable), a two-page summary of the paper, proof of paper acceptance, the conference program, an estimated budget, and a curriculum vitae.
Non-paper presenters applying to establish linkages or collaborations must provide proof of ongoing negotiations or invitations demonstrating potential for development impact. Only shortlisted applicants will be notified.
The deadline for applications is 30 November 2025.
For more information, visit SEARCA.
