Deadline: 20 October 2017
Campus Travel has partnered with Virgin Australia to launch the travel grant series: Women in STEM.
Travel Grants provide travel funding for successful applicants to enrich their area of study or academic work on a trip-of-a-lifetime, wherever their professional interests take them.
There’s no shortage of research attesting to the importance of promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to members of the university sector engaged in learning, teaching and research.
Funding Information
The Travel Grant includes $5,000 worth of airfares to be spent on Virgin Australia airfares and $1,000 for accommodation, transportation, tours or other travel arrangements.
Eligibility Criteria
- The STEM Travel Grant is open to female employees from any Australian university, university research affiliate or a PHD student employed by an Australian university that works in, studies or researches in the STEM fields.
- Applicant’s submission needs to explain how their work supports the ‘development of a high-quality STEM project, enterprise or initiative and what the outcomes are or are expected to be’. Their project, research or activity can relate to any of the STEM fields – as long as it supports the further development of STEM learning, development or outcomes.
- The successful Applicant (‘the Grantee’) must use the whole of the Grant exclusively for their work related trip/project or to further their STEM related (Project’) (as stipulated in the application submitted). Grant must be used for one trip (not multiple).
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit Travel Grant.