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Funding to attend DEST courses:
PhD students from the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative's Research School might receive support from the STI to attend DEST-courses. For details about the procedure, please contact STI.
PhD students supported by the Israel Taxonomy initiative might receive support from the ITI to attend DEST-courses. For details about the procedure, please contact ITI.
PhD students from the Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio might receive support from ForBio to attend DEST-courses. For details about the procedure, please contact ForBio.
Funding for taxonomy and biodiversity:
Convention on Biological Diversity Catalogue of funding sources for biodiversity activities
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Travel grants:
Temminck and Martin Fellowships from the Naturalis fellowship programme
Fellowships for visiting researchers to NCB Naturalis (Leiden, Netherlands).
Applications can be submitted throughout the year, with deadlines on 31 March and 30 September.
Travel grant for taxonomic experts to the Essig Museum of Entomology (University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.).
Applications may be submitted at any time during the year, but at least three months before the planned visit.
Mini-ARTS Grants (Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics) from the Society of Systematic Biologists.
Awards to allow SSB members (students, post-docs, and faculty) to spend a summer or semester apprenticed to an expert in a particular taxonomic group or to enhance revisionary taxonomic and systematics research in novel ways.
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JERICO offers Transnational Access to a number of unique European Coastal Observatories and Calibration Facilities for international research and technology development
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8th call of ASSEMBLE, the Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories
Apply for access to 9 marine stations in Europe, Israel and Chile (during June-November 2013).
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The EU-funded INTERACT project has a Transnational Access program that offers access to boreal zone research stations in the northernmost Europe and Russian Federation.
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EuroMarine Mobility Fellowships Programme 2012
Ten fellowships to support stays of 1-3 months at one of the EuroMarine institutes. PhDs, post-docs and senior scientists from these institutes are eligible to apply. Priority areas include genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, functional biodiversity, trait modeling, conservation, ecosystem function, biogeochemistry, climate modeling, data integration, meta-analyses, ecosystem services, marine science journalism.
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Zoologica Scripta Travel Fellowships
Travel fellowship for PhD students and PostDocs to visit a university department or natural history museum in Norway or Sweden. The research project may target any area of zoological taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny.
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Geddes Visiting Collection Fellowship
The Geddes Visiting Collection Fellowship offers researchers up to $8,000 to visit and work as collaborators in research projects with Australian Museum Scientists.
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Fellowships and awards:
Torrey Botanical Society Undergraduate and Graduate Student Grants and Awards
Four annual grant competitions for (under)graduate students in botany (who are members of the Society) to support graduate student research, undergraduate and graduate student training, and symposia.
Application deadline is 31 December of the year preceding the course.
Award to assist students in the initiation (first two years) of their systematics projects and in the collection of preliminary data to pursue additional sources of support or to enhance dissertation research (e.g., by visiting additional field collection sites or museums). Applicants may be from any country, but must be members of SSB, or join the Society as soon as possible.
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Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award for research into Lepidoptera conservation
The Xerces Society is now accepting applications from students who are engaged in research leading to a university degree related to Lepidoptera conservation and who intend to continue to work in this field.
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Encyclopedia of Life Rubenstein Fellows Program
Funding to translate biodiversity research, databases, and media into rich, online resources through the Encyclopedia of Life.
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The Bernhard Rensch Prize awarded by the Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS, Germany)
Annual award to a young scientist who has demonstrated exceptional work in any area of biological systematics.
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Award to support and encourage predoctoral students working on the systematics, ecology, physiology or some other aspect of the insect order Hymenoptera. Funds can be used for attendance at a conference, fieldwork, direct research costs or purchase of a piece of equipment. Only full-time predoctoral students are eligible to apply.
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2012 Ebbe Nielsen Prize
GBIF invites nominations for the 2012 Ebbe Nielsen Prize, awarded annually to a person or team who demonstrates excellence in combining biodiversity informatics and biosystematics research.
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2012 Young Researchers Award
GBIF invites proposals from graduate students for the 2012 Young Researchers Award. This prize intends to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics.
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General foundations:
List of European foundations and corporate funders from the European Foundation Centre
Top 100 U.S. Grantmaking Foundations, listed by the Foundation Center
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PhD students from the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative's Research School, the Israel Taxonomy Initiative and the Research School in Biosystematics (ForBio) might receive support to attend DEST-courses. For details, please contact STI or ITI or ForBio.
