The Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) provides travel awards for students and post-doctoral fellows to cover part of the costs associated with meeting attendance. All trainee meeting attendees can apply for travel awards.
BrightFocus Travel Awards
BrightFocus funds ground-breaking research in an urgent effort to discover cures for Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration and glaucoma, and provides expert information about these diseases. CAN is pleased to announce a new partnership with BrightFocus to support trainee participation in the CAN meeting for travel fellowships, including diversity fellowships.
BrightFocus and CAN are committed to supporting scientists from diverse backgrounds to foster creativity and innovation in addressing complex scientific challenges. We strongly encourage applications from individuals in any neurodegenerative disease field who are from groups underrepresented within your country of origin or at the location where your studies take place. For example, diversity can mean people of different sex/genders, races/ethnicities, cultures, religions, physical abilities, sexual orientations or preferences (2SLGBTQIA+), ages, first generation in your family to obtain a higher education degree, people from a low socio-economic background, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and people attending smaller universities (non U15 universities in Canada).
Bright Focus Travel Awards will be attributed in two categories: BrightFocus Diversity Awards (for trainees from under-represented groups) and BrightFocus Travel Awards (open to all), and awards will be attributed based on eligibility.
IBRO Travel awards for members of underrepresented groups
The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO https://ibro.org/) is the global association of neuroscience societies established in 1961 that aims to promote and support neuroscience around the world through training, education, research, outreach and engagement activities, and the publication of two journals, Neuroscience and IBRO Neuroscience Reports.
The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) provides travel awards for the CAN meeting to promote the participation of students and post-doctoral fellows that are members of the following underrepresented groups: Aboriginal peoples (including Status Indians, Non-status Indians, Métis, and Inuit); visible minorities; LGBTQ community; persons with disabilities; and trainees from smaller universities and colleges (non-U15 universities).
There is a single application form for travel awards.
Submission deadline is Feruary 7, 2024.
