Friday, December 13, 2024

Candidate conferences for ITC Grants

This page lists upcoming conferences for which ITC Conference Grants can be requested. ITC Conference Grants are intended to support the participation of Phd Students and Young Researchers and Innovators[1] from participating Inclusiveness Target Countries[2] at international conferences. As soon as we receive an expression of interest, we will launch an official call for application. All applications will then go through selection by the Grant Awarding Committee.

Successful applicants will receive an ITC Conference Grant from the MiCropBiomes COST Action. ITC Conference Grants are fixed financial contributions to the overall travel, accommodation and meal expenses of the selected Grantee, which take into consideration the budget request of the applicant and the outcome of the evaluation by the Grant Awarding Committee. ITC Conference Grants do not necessarily cover all of the expenses related to participating in a given conference. Please consult the Annotated Rules for COST Actions for more details on eligibility for application and the reimbursement rules. Please be aware that you need to provide all travel documents and relevant receipts (registration fee) within 4 weeks after return from the conference in order to receive the ITC Conference Grant.

If you are aware of other conferences with relevance to the MiCropBiomes COST Action, please feel free to share your suggestions with us so that we can include them in future Conference Grant calls.

Conference Site Date Abstract deadline Registration deadline
ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024 – 15th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria and the 5th International Symposium of Biological Control of Bacterial Plant Diseases Blacksburg, Virginia (USA) July 7 – 12, 2024 Passed Passed
miCROPe 2024 conference – Microbe-assisted crop production – opportunities, challenges and needs Vienna (Austria) July 15 – 18, 2024 Passed Passed
Plant Pathology 2024 – Annual meeting of the British Society for Plant Pathology Oxford (UK) September 11-13, 2024 Passed Passed
GPMB 2024 – 9th Edition of Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology Rome (Italy) September 16-18, 2024 Passed Passed
International Phytobiomes Conference 2024 St. Louis, Missouri (USA) November 19-21, 2024 October 25, 2024 (poster only) November 15, 2024
MPMI Congress 2025 – Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction Cologne (Germany) July 13-17, 2025 Not yet available Not yet available

Please direct all requests for further information to the Grant Awarding Coordinator, Dr Ivan NIKOLIĆ, and NOT to the webmaster of this website.


[1] A researcher or innovator under the age of 40.

[2] Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Türkiye, Ukraine (countries in red did not join the MiCropBiomes COST Action and are therefore not eligible for support by this COST Action).