Guidelines for financial support

The ECA sponsors European symposia, schools, workshops and conferences on topics relevant to crystallography.

The following rules, accepted by vote by the ECA Council in Florence (August 28, 2005), apply:

  1. 5000 € to be distributed each year.
  2. Grants in the range of 1000-2000 €.
  3. Application from the organisers must be received min. 3 months before the event.
  4. Dates of conference must be outside of a blackout period of ±1 month around the ECM's and IUCr Congresses.
  5. There should be an official bank account or sub-account opened for the conference or its organising institution, to which the support will be transferred.
  6. The ECA funds should be used to support young scientists (under 35) from the ECA "region", with priority to less developed countries.
  7. There should be a reasonable geographical distribution of the fellowships. In particular, the organising country should not dominate the list of awards. National meetings should use the grant to attract young participants from other countries.
  8. An applicant should be presenting author of an accepted abstract (applies to conferences, symposia and other meetings, whose main purpose is the presentation of scientific results).
  9. The ECA support should be acknowledged in the conference materials, web pages, and announcements. Where possible, the ECA logo should accompany the acknowledgment.
  10. After the meeting, the organisers should provide a short report indicating how the ECA support was used to help young participants. In addition, a brief statement summarizing the event should be sent to the ECA Webmaster for inclusion in ECA News.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR 2008 IS NOW CLOSED