Mid-Senior Travel Awards
Application Round 1 (Ada and Miller categories):
March 11-25 2024 for travel during Jul 1st 2024 - Jun 30th 2025.
Application Round 2 (Ada category only):
September 2024 for travel during Jan 1st - Dec 31st 2025.
Gordon Ada Travel Awards
Purpose:
To support mid career ASI members who wish to travel for career related purposes. The awards are not restricted to a particular type or duration of travel and may be given for attendance to meetings, sabbaticals, lab visits or any other kind of immunology-related travel.
Eligibility:
- 6 to 15 years postdoctoral experience
- Applicants must have paid their membership subscription before 1st April of the year of application
- Applicants must hold continually financial membership for at least 2 years prior to the year of application
- Previous recipients of an ASI Gordon Ada Travel Award or current members of the ASI Executive are not eligible to apply, however, previous recipients of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral International Travel Awards may apply.
- Previous recipients of an ASI Gordon Ada Career Advancement Award for travel are ineligible to apply.
Application procedure:
- Click here to download the Gordon Ada Travel Award application form.
- Save your file as "LASTNAME YYYY_Ada”
- Log in to your member profile, click on 'Applications' and follow the prompts.
Assessment Criteria:
- Excellence of track record relative to opportunity
- Purpose of travel and career/professional benefit of the proposed travel
ASI Executive reserves the right not make an award in any given year.
Value:
Gordon Ada Travel Awards are granted per year to the value of AUD 5,000 each.
Successful Recipients - how to claim your ASI Award:
Please log in to your member profile to submit your e-Newsletter contribution, provide receipts to support your claim (flights and proof of attendance, e.g. scanned copy of name badge), and to initiate the reimbursement process.
Jacques Miller Senior Travel Award
Purpose:
To support mid-senior career ASI members who wish to travel overseas for career related purposes. The award is not restricted to a particular type or duration of travel and may be given for attendance to meetings, sabbaticals, lab visits or any other kind of immunology-related travel. It may also be used to cover childcare-related costs.
Eligibility:
- Greater than 14 years postdoctoral experience
- Applicants must have paid their membership subscription before 1st April of the year of application
- Applicants must hold continually financial membership for at least 5 years prior to the year of application
- Previous recipients of an ASI Senior Travel Award or current members of the ASI Executive are not eligible to apply, however, previous recipients of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral International Travel Awards may apply.
- Previous recipients of an ASI Jacques Miller Career Advancement Award for travel are ineligible to apply.
Application procedure:
- Click here to download the Jacques Miller Travel Award application form.
- Save your file as "LASTNAME YYYY_Miller”
- Log in to your member profile, click on 'Applications' and follow the prompts.
Assessment Criteria
- Excellence of track record relative to opportunity
- Purpose of travel and career/professional benefit of the proposed travel
ASI Executive reserves the right not make an award in any given year.
Value:
One (1) Jacques Miller Senior Travel Award is granted per year to the value of AUD 6,000, with an additional AUD 3,000 for childcare-related expenses.
Successful Recipients - how to claim your ASI Award:
Please log in to your member profile to submit your e-Newsletter contribution, provide receipts to support your claim (flights and proof of attendance, e.g. scanned copy of name badge), and to initiate the reimbursement process.