Deadline: 07-Jun-21
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is currently inviting proposals for its Travel Grants Program to each qualified agriculture and agriculture-related professional, social scientist, or graduate student in Southeast Asia.
Objectives
- To provide opportunities to qualified Southeast Asian nationals to participate and present papers in ATTAIN-relevant scientific conferences and fora, locally or internationally.
- Note: Poster presentations are not covered.
- To promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge/information vital to agricultural innovation.
- To provide the Grantee a venue to discuss with other scientists, researchers, university faculty, and scholars about recent developments in their respective disciplines.
- To facilitate linkages, partnerships, and active collaboration between SEARCA, or the applicant’s home institution, with other development organizations and donors.
- To produce articles or any publication out of the Grantee’s presented paper, whenever appropriate and feasible.
Funding Information
SEARCA will provide travel grants of up to a maximum of US$1,200.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants who will present scientific papers in international or local scientific conferences and fora are qualified for the Travel Grants. On a case to case basis, paper presentations may not be required if attendance to a conference/forum is expected to result in establishing formal linkages, partnerships, collaborations and strong development impacts to the Center.
- Priority 1. Priority shall be given to the following:
- SEARCA fellows (senior, adjunct, and visiting fellows);
- SEARCA Graduate scholarship alumni;
- Researchers of SEARCA-implemented/coordinated projects;
- SFRT grantees;
- Proponents from the University Consortium (faculty, staff, and graduate students);
- SEARCA ongoing scholars; and
- Faculty and staff of universities under the SEARCA’s Institutional Development Assistance Program.
- Priority 2. Applicants who are citizens of Southeast Asian countries who are regular staff members of non-profit development-oriented institutions or graduate students of other agricultural universities in the Region may be considered if not enough qualified applications under Priority 1 have been received.
- At present, only citizens from the following countries are qualified to apply: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.
For more information, visit https://www.searca.org/travel-grants