ESBiomech23 Congress in Maastricht

Travel Awards

ESB Travel Awards are given to the most worthy applicants, as selected by the ESB Award Committee.  The purpose of the Travel Awards is to financially help young researchers to participate at the ESB Congress.  The Award consists of a certificate and an amount of €400, which is expected to be used for travel, accommodation and living expenses during the ESB meeting.

Any ESB member younger than 40 who is undertaking a PhD or has not more than 5 years PostDoc experience and is submitting a paper to the ESB Congress is eligible to apply.  Please check your membership and payment status before applying for this award.

The applicant must be the first author of the abstract.  Funds are limited and a priority list is drawn up based on scientific quality.  Candidates may only receive a travel award once, which will be awarded at the congress banquet.  For consideration, the candidate must submit electronically an abstract through the portal of the yearly Congress, together with the required documents.

We will endeavor to provide notification of the awards in sufficient time for you to apply for any required travel visa, but application for the visa remains your own responsibility, and it could be beneficial to start the visa application process immediately and not wait for the result of the travel award.

For detailed information on eligibility and the selection procedure, please refer to the Awards Regulations.  If you need clarifications, you may contact the Awards Committee Chair.


Instructions for 2023 Yearly Congress:

Deadline for receipt of application for ESB Travel award coincides with the closing date for abstract submission for the yearly ESB Congress (January 31st, 2023).  In order to enter the competition, applicants must apply in the online Congress submission portal by clicking the ESB Travel Award box and submitting the required files.  In addition to the Congress Abstract, the candidate must submit a letter briefly outlining and justifying why they are requesting a travel grant, including the applicant’s curriculum vitae (max 2 pages).  If the abstract is accepted for the Congress, the application will automatically be taken into consideration and abstracts will enter the reviewing phase for the award.

To qualify for the award, the conference management team will need to check your eligibility against the ESB membership database, and may share information you provide to the conference with the ESB, in order to do this.


CONGRATULATIONS to our 2022 winners!

Winners of the 2022 Travel Award

The awards committee is pleased to announce that after scrutinizing the various applications is willing to supply Travel award bursaries and support to the following applicants to attend the 2022 ESB Congress:

  • Researchers with a PhD
Teixeira, Graciosa Quelhas

Aldieri, Alessandra 

University of Ulm

University of Bologna 

Mazzi, Valentina  Politecnico de Torino 
O’Rourke, Dermot  Flinders University 
Bertozzi, Filippo  Politecnico de Milano 
Sensini, Alberto  University of Bologna 
Bonithon, Roxane  University of Portsmouth 
Palmisano, Chiara  Politecnico di Milano 
  •  PhD Candidates               
Corti, Anna

Aryeetey, Othniel 

Politecnico di Milano

Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences

Karagöz, Zeynep  Maastricht University 
Cestariolo, Ludovica  Politecnico di Milano 
Griesbach, Julia Kerstin  ETH Zürich 
GARDEGARONT, Marc  University de Lyon Claude Bernard 
Handelshauser, Martin  TU Wien 
D’Andrea, Luca  Politecnico di Milano 
Pérez-Aliacar, Marina  University of Zaragoza 
Syla, Denata  University of Sheffield 
Ríos-Ruiz, Itziar  University of Zaragoza 
Cavazzoni, Giulia  University of Bologna 
Laita, Nicolas  University of Zaragoza 

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