Bursaries for students

ESN Bursaries for student members

The ESN is delighted to announce that bursaries of 600€ for European delegates and 900€ for overseas delegates are available, on a competitive basis, to student members of the Society to assist in their attendance at the 36th International Symposium of Nematology in Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands, from Monday June 1, to Friday June 5, 2026.

Criteria for application:

· The call is open to all PhD students, except those students in their first year (i.e. your PhD must have started before 1st November 2024 and you should still have student status at the time of the Symposium).

· Applicants should be a member of the ESN at the time of application and still be a member at the time of the symposium.

· The student must give an oral presentation or present a poster at the symposium.

An application form is available here. The completed form should be submitted to the Secretary (Sebastian Eves-van den Akker; se389@cam.ac.uk) by 23:59h on 31st October 2025. Successful bursars will be required to give an oral presentation or to present a poster at the ESN Symposium (selection for oral presentations will remain in the hands of the Symposium scientific committee).

The ESN Governing Board will select the successful bursars on the basis of the scientific quality and impact of the student’s research.