Region VIII travel awards reimburse travel, registration and hotel expenses of up to $1,000 for one Region VIII research administrator.
Find out about the experience of attending meetings from some of our past awardees.
Annual Meeting Travel Award
The NCURA International Region Travel Award supports attendance at the NCURA Annual Meeting. These meetings are held in Washington D.C. in August of each year.
The 2019 Travel Award is now closed.
Travel Awards of $1,000 each are provided to Region VIII members to reimburse costs associated with registration, travel, hotel or related expenses to the Annual Meeting. The Region VIII Executive board selects the successful recipients based on the submitted application and letter of support. The Region VIII Executive board makes the final decision on the number of travel awards granted depending on the number of applications and budget available. Travel awardees submit a report within a month of the meeting, describing their experience and benefit from attending the meeting.
Nominees for the 2019 award will be notified of the outcome by June 7, 2019.
Regional Meeting Travel Award
The NCURA Regional Meeting travel award supports attendance at the Regional Meeting. In 2016 Jessica Brody, Grants Officer, University of Melbourne was awarded. Congratulations Jessica.
Previous Travel Award recipients
2018 award winner: Hanna Salo, University of Turku, Finland
2017 award winners: Luca Wacker, ETH Zurich|University of Zurich & Carole Amroune, Grants Manager, ISGlobal, University of Barcelona
2016 award winner: Barbara Slattery, Manager Research Information at the University of Melbourne.
2015 award winner: Leslie Fernandez, Finance & Facilities Administrator Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia.