EUSSET Early Career Travel Support for ECSCW 2025

Are you planning to attend the ECSCW 2025 but facing difficulties due to scarcity of travel resources?

EUSSET is keen to support young members of its community to participate in its events and, having that in mind, has set aside some funding for travel support. You can apply for it and, if your application is successful, you will be (partially) reimbursed after the conference, upon presentation of the required material.

Eligibility

In order to apply for the EUSSET Early Career Travel Support, you must fulfil the following requirements:

  • Be currently enrolled in a PhD programme or have defended your PhD within the previous 3 years.
  • Be a paying member of EUSSET.
  • Have one of the following motivations to attend the conference:
    • Present your research in one of the conference venues (i.e., the main programme, one of the conference workshops, the posters and demo session, or doctoral colloquium).
    • Serve as a student volunteer.

Maximum support

Applicants will be granted up to 1000€ of travel support for attending ECSCW 2025, depending on the number of applications received in the year and the submitted cost estimation.

EUSSET cannot guarantee that all eligible applicants will receive financial support.

Selection criteria

Applicants will be selected according to the following criteria:

  • Stage on career: preference will be given to PhD scholars somewhere between the second and last year of their PhD research.
  • Location: preference will be given to scholars from the global south
  • Type of participation: the following priority list will be followed, and multiple participation will be taken into consideration:
    • Paper on the main programme (journal, conference paper, or exploratory paper)
    • Participation on the Doctoral Colloquium
    • Participation on Workshops
    • Participation on the Poster and Demo Session
  • Previous support: preference will be given to applicants who have not received any funding from EUSSET before.
  • Quality of the cover letter: preference will be given to participants who provide stronger motivations for applying.    

Submission process

Please send your application to coreteam@eusset.eu by the deadline.

Your application must be a single PDF file containing the following elements:

  • A cover letter clearly stating:
    • How you comply with the eligibility criteria.
    • Why you need support – e.g., no other funding options available.
    • How you will benefit from participating in the conference.
  • A cost estimation for the trip, organised by the following expense categories:
    • Transportation
    • Accomodation

Applications missing one of those elements or submitted in the wrong format will be disqualified and will not be processed.

Deadlines

Please submit your application by noon CEST of the 15th April 2025.

Application results will be sent out on the 6th May 2025, 17h00 CEST.

Reimbursement process

After the conference, applicants contemplated must submit the following material:

  • Receipts for transportation and accommodation expenses, properly annotated – i.e., you will have to specify the expenses for the receipt, e.g. train ticket to the airport, flight tickets, etc.
  • Material for a blog post on the EUSSET website, including:
    • A short text entry (300 – 500 words) with feedback on their experience in the conference (mandatory).
    • Pictures or any other media that could be used in the post (optional).

The material should be sent to coreteam@eusset.eu as a ZIP file, as soon as possible. If the file cannot be sent over email, the candidate should provide a link from where the file can be downloaded.

Important notes:

  1. Please notice that registration and food expenses will not be reimbursed.
  2. The maximum reimbursement amount will not exceed the amount pre-approved by EUSSET, which will be informed upon notification of successful application.
  3. Needless to say, reimbursement will not be conditional to a blog post reporting on positive experience. We will welcome critical blog posts and will learn from them to try to improve future experiences. However, the reimbursement will only be processed if the blog post material is provided.
  4. Reimbursement will be processed as soon as the material is submitted and verified by the EUSSET Core Team.

Further info

If you have any questions about any information provided here, do not hesitate to contact the EUSSET Core Team at: coreteam@eusset.eu.