FEMS Congress Attendance Grant

FEMS provides grants for European and non-European Early Career Researchers to support their attendance at the 11th Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS MICRO Milan 2025: Congress & Exhibition). Each grant provides a waiver of the registration fee.

Grant application is open until 24 January 2025, 23:59 CET and is part of the Abstract Application.

REGULATIONS SUMMARY

Applications are now open. An application can only be made after submitting an abstract via the FEMS MICRO Milan 2025 submission portal.

Applicants for a FEMS Congress Grant should:

  • be an Early Career Researcher and thus should either have obtained highest academic degree (Bachelor, Master or PhD) less than five years prior the application deadline, or be a PhD student*
  • be an active microbiologist
  • be the first author and presenter of an accepted abstract for the FEMS MICRO Milan 2025: Congress & Exhibition
  • attend the FEMS MICRO Milan 2025: Congress & Exhibition and be a registered participant

*periods of maternity/paternity leave, special leave or illness do not count toward this definition

Grant winners cannot transfer their free congress registration to someone else.

NOTE
Abstract submitters that apply for a Congress Attendance Grant should hold off registering for the Congress until they receive their Grant notification.

QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions, please email FEMS@parthen.nl

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