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Financial Support

General Information

In principle, it is expected that authors of contributions, which have been scheduled for presentation, will secure their participation in the conference on their own without any financial assistance provided by the organization.

However, a limited amount of the overall budget of the conference is reserved to assist young scientist to attend the assembly; moreover, conveners may want to support the one or the other solicited speaker of their session. The financial support may include waiving of the registration fee and a refund of the Abstract Processing Charge (APC) related to the abstract for which support was requested. Additionally, the grant may include a support for travel expenditures.

  • Please note, that the Abstract Processing Charge (APC) is also applied in case of support applications.
  • Each support award is granted to the contact author for a particular abstract. Should this abstract be withdrawn before the meeting or should this abstract not be presented at the meeting although the author who has been awarded is present at the meeting, the award has to be returned, i.e. the author in question will be asked to register and, if necessary, to pay back the money received.
  • Awards cannot be transferred!


Public Application

Currently, the European Geosciences Union runs three different financial support schemes:

Young Scientist's Travel Award for Europeans (YSTA): This award includes a free registration together with a refund of the Abstract Processing Charge (APC) related to the abstract for which support was requested. Depending on the decision of the Support Committee an additional financial support for the travel expenditures with a maximum of €300 could be granted as well.

Only the granted amount mentioned in the financial support email will be paid out to the supported contact author personally during the EGU General Assembly 2012.


Adrian Gill Travel Award (AGTA): For a young scientist from Britain to take part in a session of the Atmospheric Sciences or Ocean Sciences programme. This award includes a free registration together with a refund of the Abstract Processing Charge (APC) related to the abstract for which support was requested. Depending on the decision of the Support Committee an additional financial support for the travel expenditures with a maximum of €300 could be granted as well.

Only the granted amount mentioned in the financial support email will be paid out to the supported contact author personally during the EGU General Assembly 2012.


Keith Runcorn Travel Award for Non-Europeans (KRTA): This award includes a free registration together with a refund of the Abstract Processing Charge (APC) related to the abstract for which support was requested. Depending on the decision of the Support Committee an additional financial support for the travel expenditures with a maximum of €500 could be granted as well.

Only the granted amount mentioned in the financial support email will be paid out to the supported contact author personally during the EGU General Assembly 2012.


Scientists, who wish to apply for financial support must be the principal author of their contribution, and they must submit an abstract by 15 December 2011.

For the submission of your abstract/application for financial support, please enter the Session Programme, select the part of the programme you would like to submit an abstract to, and study the respective session list. Each session shows its link Abstract Submission.

The EGU support selection committee will decide about the support of individual contribution until 28 January 2012. All applicants will be informed afterwards.