Top-up Fund: SEB Travel Grant
Top-up Fund: SEB Travel Grant
2023 marks 100 years of the SEB. As part of our centenary celebrations, the SEB is providing up to £240 additional funding to successful applicants of the SEB Travel Grant 2023 if their travel costs significantly exceed their travel grant allocation.
The SEB travel grant is designed to help students and early career researchers attend the Centenary Conference with a financial contribution towards travel and accommodation. Although this contribution was never intended to cover the full costs of travel, we are aware that travel costs (particularly flights) post-covid and in the middle of this cost of living crisis have dramatically increased from previous years. As such, the SEB “top-up fund” is for successful applicants of the SEB travel fund, whose costs significantly exceed the monetary value of the SEB Travel Grant they were awarded.
In this instance, we are defining "significantly exceed" as travel costs coming to more than twice that of the travel grant funding. For example, if your cheapest flight and hotel options totalled £1600, and you were successful in receiving £800 for the SEB Travel Grant, you could apply for some additional financial aid via the “top-up fund”.
Applications for the top-up fund will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Applicants will be scored on a judging system devised to prioritise attendees with reduced income, from low-income countries, or who have no access to other funding.
What can I apply for?
SEB will award a maximum of 30% additional funding to bridge the gap between the grant and the travel costs. This will not exceed £240.
In our example, this means that if your travel costs were £1600, and you were awarded a SEB Travel Grant of £800, you could get a maximum of an additional £240 in our top-up fund. This would make the total funding from the SEB, £1040.
