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The Geohost Financial Assistance Programme

The Geohost Programme is a financial support programme to assist individual scientists and students mainly from developing countries within Africa to attend the General Assembly by partially subsidising their expenses.

Each applicant to the Geohost Programme may request a subsidy for one or more of the following:
  • the registration fee for the General Assembly;
  • the registration fee for the Summer school;
  • subsidised accommodation during the General Assembly;
  • subsidised accommodation during the Summer school;
  • flight to and from South Africa ;
  • daily allowance.
Applicants will be selected using the following criteria:
  1. submitted abstract;
  2. scientific qualifications;
  3. financial need, as documented in a letter from the supervisor or chairperson which should include the supervisor's assessment of: the applicant's qualifications, how the applicant's attendance at the general assembly will benefit his/her home institution, the possibilities of the applicant receiving support from his/her home institution or country;
  4. financial need, as documented in a letter from the applicant, and
  5. extra financial support received from other sources.
Priority will be given to young (<35 years) African scientists and graduate students with proven academic attainments.

Financial support will be provided for candidates who fit the specific criteria as set out above. Any financial support provided by the GeoHost committee will be at their sole discretion, and shall be based on the above mentioned criteria and the availability of funding. Their decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding their decision or the criteria.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Those planning to apply for the Geohost Programme must complete and submit the Geohost application form online no later than 30 July 2008. Only applicants with an accepted oral or poster presentation will be considered for the programme.

Those who have submittal problems should download the document and either email or fax it to :

Michelle Grobbelaar
Council for Geoscience
P/Bag X112
Pretoria
0001
South Africa

Phone: +27 (0) 12 841 1202 / 1186
E-mail: iaspei2009@geoscience.org.za

Please note that the application will NOT be considered unless these letters are included in the application.

However, should the applicant's abstract and application not be approved by the GEOHOST committee, the applicant will have to pay the fees if they wish to attend the general assembly. Payment should be made in US dollars by:

SWIFT electronic funds transfer to:
Branch code: 012645
Bank: Standard Bank South Africa
Swift Address: SBZAZA
Account number: 676 058 604
Account name: Lekgotla Africa Events & Conferences


For the application form click here.
For the abstract guidelines click here, for an example abstract click here.

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