FEMS Grants

This meeting is selected by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) to offer grants for congress participation for Early Career Researchers*.

Eligibility
To apply for this grant, you would need to meet following requirements:

• be a member of a FEMS Member Society* or be recommended by such a member
• be an Early Career Scientist**
• be an Active Microbiologist 
• be presenting author at the meeting (oral or poster)

*Find out if your society is a FEMS Member at https://fems-microbiology.org/member-societies/ 
**These are active microbiologists who obtained the highest academic degree - Bachelor, Master or PhD - less than five years prior to the application deadline date, or are a Master or PhD student.

Application process
To apply to the FEMS Grant, please fill in the application form ECS Meeting Grant Application Form and send it by mail to evelyne.forano@inrae.fr with copy to contact-gutmicrob@inrae.fr.

Deadline for application: same deadline as for asbstract submission - June 30^th 2021

If you apply for a FEMS grant, please do not register to the conference yet. You must first submit an abstract and in parallel send the FEMS application form as indicated on this website. You will register to the conference only after having received by email the approval (or not) for the FEMS grant. FEMS grantees will also receive by email information on how to register to the conference.

Additional benefits 
As a FEMS Member Society member, you can:

• benefit the grant provided for this meeting (see Eligibility above)
• apply for FEMS Grants
• benefit a discount off the registration fee for FEMS congresses
• benefit a 25% discount off a selection of OUP books