Tropentag 2014 travel grants

19th March 2014
by manager

Agrinatura News

AGRINATURA Association is offering 8 travel grants for MSc and PhD students participating at Tropentag 2014.

AGRINATURA will support the annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (TROPENTAG) with the general theme for 2014: ‘Bridging the gap between increasing knowledge and decreasing resources’.

The conference will be held on 17 – 19 September 2014 at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic.

AGRINATURA will grant 8 students from AGRINATURA members’ institutions by travel grant of amount 500 EUR.

Students are challenged to submit their abstract to the Tropentag 2014 Conference tillMay 1, 2014 and at the same time to send the abstract and request for travel grant to AGRINATURA Secretariat (email: secretariat@agrinatura.eu) till June 1, 2013. As soon as the abstract will be accepted by Tropentag conference committee, AGRINATURA selection committee will select 8 students who will receive the travel grant.

Please note that student requesting the travel grant must fulfil following conditions:

must be a student of an AGRINATURA member institution (the list of member institutions is available here)
must be first author of the contribution
must be personally present at the venue during the conference
must place the logo of AGRINATURA on the contribution (poster or presentation) and agree with publication on the website.

At the conference, AGRINATURA will grant the Best Poster Award of three best Tropentag posters with prize of 500 €, 300 € and 200 € respectively.

Deadline for submitting abstract is May 1, 2014, deadline for travel grant request is June 1, 2014!!!

For more information about the conference look at: http://www.tropentag.de