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1. The CASS Travel Grants enable ECRs to attend international conferences. The applicant is expected to be presenting new research as a platform presentation or as a poster where the applicant is first author. The grants are not available for travel to attend conferences being held in Australia.
2. The maximum amount of a CASS Travel Grant that may be awarded is the lesser of A$6,000.00 or eighty percent (80%) of the “Total Cost” as disclosed on the Application Form.
3. The Foundation may offer a grant of less than the amount of the CASS Travel Grant requested by the applicant without disclosing any reason for such reduction.
ELIGIBILITY
4. All applicants must be Australian Citizens or have a visa allowing them to remain permanently in Australia. A visa issued for the purpose of full time study in Australia does not constitute permanent resident status for the purpose of a CASS Travel Grant application. Applications from Australian citizens resident overseas at the closing date of Applications are not accepted.
5 All applicants are expected to reside continuously in Australia during the period between the date of applying for a CASS Travel Grant and the scheduled date of departure (the period) nominated on the Application Form. This restriction is to show preference for applicants who do not have access to other resources, grants or awards to cover the expense of travel to international conferences and to exclude applicants who are based temporarily or permanently outside Australia. If a successful applicant finds it necessary to undertake overseas travel in the period, the applicant must disclose full details to CASS of the reasons for travelling, which may in turn assist in demonstrating to CASS that the purpose of the overseas travel does not breach the intention of this restriction.
6. The CASS Travel Grants program was developed to assist ECRs. In most cases, CASS will consider an ECR to be a researcher who is within seven or eight years of the start of their research career. This normally means that the applicant will have been awarded a PhD within the past seven or eight years. CASS at its discretion may allow some flexibility in the interpretation of this time frame where the applicant's work history or other circumstances may warrant it.
7. In its consideration of CASS Travel Grant applications, CASS will have regard to its overall funding objectives and will take into account the status of the conference and the nature and extent of the applicant’s participation in the conference proceedings and other proposed activities. Applicants may include visits to scientific institutes and colleagues, if such activities are directly related to their primary research activities in Australia.
8. In view of the Foundation’s primary objectives in making Travel Grants available, awards are unlikely to be made to support overseas field work, independent research or courses of study.
WHAT TO INCLUDE WITH YOUR APPLICATION
9. The Application Form is to be downloaded from this website and must have attached to it a letter from the person to whom the applicant reports in their organisation:
(a) recommending the conference as one relevant to the applicant’s work;
(b) supporting the applicant’s request and the reasons given by the applicant to travel to
and attend the conference;
(c) confirming that the participation of the applicant and the platform or poster
presentation to be made by the applicant will introduce new research findings; and
(d) adding any personal observations about the Applicant that may assist the CASS
Directors in their deliberations.
10. One quotation for the cost of the return air travel to the conference, current at the date of application, must also be attached.
11. Applications received without a letter of support or an air travel quotation will not be considered.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
12. The application will be acknowledged by e-mail to the e-mail address provided by the applicant in the Application Form. If you do not receive an acknowledgement within fourteen (14) days, please contact CASS by telephone.
13. The application will be determined in accordance with the timetable provided in the "Key Dates" page and applicants will be emailed.
14. Successful applicants will be asked to sign a “Letter of Agreement” containing details of the conditions applicable to the award of the Travel Grant.
GRANT CONDITIONS
15. Travel Grants are made directly to the researcher attending the conference for which the grant is made, and not to the institution at which they are employed.
16. The published conference commencment date appearing on the conference web site must fall within the dates specified for travel grants on the relevant "Key Dates" page.
17. Travel must be completed within 90 days of departure from Australia.
18. Travel Grant awardees are required to submit a report within thirty (30) days of their return to Australia, describing the conference attended and activity undertaken, including their assessment of the benefits they derived from their participation, together with a statement detailing how the Travel Grant awarded was spent. The CASS Foundation reserves the right to use the report (or parts of it) subject to its Privacy Policy.
19. Payments will only be made electronically to the successful applicant’s nominated personal bank account. A successful applicant must provide his/her bank account details prior to any payment being made.
20. An applicant will be awarded only one (1) CASS Travel Grant in a calendar year. That is to say that if an applicant receives a Travel Grant CASS will not consider another Travel Grant from the same applicant for a Conference that is to be held less than one year after the completion of the Conference for which the Travel Grant was received.
21. Applicants will be informed of the result of their application by email as soon as is practicable.
22. Details must be disclosed of awards received from other sources to support the applicant's attendance at the activity for which an application to CASS has been or will be lodged,
23. The decision of the Foundation’s Board of Directors on all applications is final.
24. No comments about individual applications will be provided.
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