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Sleep Europe Childcare Support Grant

Sleep Europe Childcare Support Grant

APPLICATIONS OPEN 1 MAY - 31 JULY 2024

Participating at conferences is a crucial part of every researcher’s academic work. Parent-researchers face additional challenges to fully participate in conference activities due to their childcare-responsibilities. This creates disadvantages for parents and can lead to future career barriers, especially for women Calisi et al. (2018). The ESRS strongly believes that inclusion and diversity are key factors for innovative and cutting-edge science. Therefore, the ESRS is committed to create solutions and reduce hurdles for parent-researchers.

We are excited to announce that the ESRS will once again award the “Sleep Europe Childcare Support Grant” an initiative of the Gender Equality Forum (GEF). This grant has the aim to provide financial support to parents covering childcare at home to enable attendance at the 27th congress of the ESRS, Sleep Europe 2024 in Seville, Spain. Due to the med tech regulations, minors are not allowed at the congress, except babies who are breastfed.

Reference
Calisi RM; a Working Group of Mothers in Science (2018). Opinion: How to tackle the childcare-conference conundrum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

Up to 10 grants of up to 500 Euros each will be awarded.

The money must be personally collected on-site at the conference.

Eligibility Requirements:

  • ESRS individual member at the time of application
  • Childcare obligation at the time of Sleep Europe 2024
  • A presentation at Sleep Europe 2024 is not mandatory for applying but preference will be given to people that actively contribute to the scientific and educational programme

Application Documents:

Please provide the following two documents (combined to 1 pdf) by uploading it below:

  • A short CV of max 1 page
  • Letter of motivation with 3 short, separate paragraphs answering the following 3 questions (max 700 words overall):
  1. What are your childcare responsibilities at the time of the Sleep Europe 2024?
  2. How will the money be spent? Please provide a detailed budget (max 500 Euro) and how the money will be used for childcare. Money can be used flexibly but a clear justification is needed.
  3. What is your contribution at Sleep Europe 2024 and how will this congress attendance support your career (if applicable please provide talk/poster title)?

Application Guidelines:

Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
All application documents should be in English and in a PDF format
Applications received in any other manner aside from the form upload will not be considered
Application documents will be received and processed by the ESRS Office
The ESRS Gender Equality Forum will review the applications and select the awardees
The awardees will be announced by 30 August 2024.

Application Form