ESCoP Family Care grants

The Family Care Grants are designed to support conference attendees who incur extra family care expenses - above and beyond their regular family care expenses - in order to attend the ESCoP conference. Examples of these expenses include extra daycare, babysitting services, elder care, or care for a family member with disabilities or severe illness. These may arise either in the attendee’s country of residence or at the conference location.

ESCoP offers up to 500 euro per grant to reimburse such extra care expenses, with funding available for up to 10 attendees (costs covered by this grant will be reimbursed after the conference based on receipts presented by the participant within a timeframe that will be communicated to the winners in the notification letter).

Eligibility

All attendees of the ESCoP conference who are ESCoP members and indicate both financial need and additional care costs due to attending the conference are eligible to apply.

Application Process

Applications should be submitted in .pdf format to the ESCoP Secretary and should include the following:

• Submitted/accepted ESCOP abstract – Abstract acceptance is a prerequisite for being awarded the grant and will be checked by the committee before the decision. Recipients who do not attend the conference will forfeit their grant.
• A one-page motivation letter that must include: (1) the applicant’s name, institution, position (e.g., PhD student, postdoc, senior researcher, professor), and ESCOP membership status, as well as (2) a statement of financial need along with a description of extra family care expenses due to attending the conference (above and beyond regular care expenses).

Deadlines will align with the abstract submission schedule and will be announced before the conference.

Timeline for the 2025 call:

• May 15 – Application deadline (i.e., 2 weeks after abstract decision communication)
• June 15 – Decision announcement (i.e., within a month after application)