[AISWorld] VLDB ADBIS Travel Grants

[Marco Mesiti]

VLDB - ADBIS Travel Grants

        In 2013, VLDB will take place in Riva del Garda, of the province
        of Trento, and the week after the East-European Conference on
        Advances in Databases and Information System (ADBIS), will take
        place in Genoa.

        In order to encourage participation to both these major events
        from faculty and students in underrepresented parts of the world
        (e.g., developing countries and poor regions of developed
        countries), with special reference to East Europe (Albania,
        Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
        Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Georgia, Latvia,
        Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania,
        Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine), VLDB is offering a
        number of fellowships to researchers and students from these
        regions that will choose to participate to both events. The
        winners of the fellowships will enjoy:

           - A reduced registration rate for ADBIS (150?)
           - A student registration rate for VLDB (approximately 250?; exact
             rate will be published on the VLDB 2013 webpage)
           - A fellowship of US$1500 from the VLDB Endowment to support
             travel & Accommodation costs

        Recipients will be required to register and participate to both
        conferences. The registrations should be fulfilled before the
        start date of VLDB (August 26, 2013).

        Interested applicants should email their CV and an application
        letter to: vldb-adbis2013 at unige.it. The application letter
        should include:

           - Applicant's Name
           - Faculty/working professionals must indicate their current
             position, including number of years in the profession. Student
             applicants must include specifics of the program they are
             enrolled in (major/specialization, graduate/undergraduate,
             full-time/part-time) alongside the courses taken up to the
             moment of the application.
           - A description on why the fellowship is needed and how it will
             promote the applicant's research in the data management area.
           - A short description of the interests of the applicant in data
             management research.
           - Any fellowships, awards or honors earned.
           - List of conferences attended so far, if any.
           - Total estimated costs for attending VLDB and ADBIS, and a
             description of the source that will cover the extra funds
             required, if the estimation exceeds the VLDB Fellowship.

      The application should be sent by May 31, 2013 (5:00am PST).