Travel grants

Application Deadline: 9:00 Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
Thursday 9th January 2020
Wednesday 15th January 2020
Travel grants have been closed.

As an incentive to encourage young surgeons or trainees based outside of Japan to submit original abstracts for oral or poster presentation, the organizing committee has organized a travel grant to be awarded to 9 participants as a token of our appreciation for attending the Congress. Abstracts may be about any topic that is related clinically, or through basic science, to pediatric surgery and pediatric urology. Applicants cannot live in Japan and must be under the age of 40 at the end of the Congress. Applications may be made using the abstract submission form. Please check the conditions listed below before making an application.

Conditions for applying for a travel grant

  1. Applicants may be surgical trainees or qualified specialist surgeons and must be based outside of Japan.
  2. Applicants must be younger than 40 years old at the end of the Congress.
  3. Applicants may submit more than one abstract.
  4. An applicant must submit a manuscript for each abstract accepted for presentation at the Congress (oral or poster) to the Publications Committee for review for possible publication in the JSPS issue of Pediatric Surgery International (PSI). A manuscript must be submitted otherwise the application will be invalid.
  5. Japanese nationals residing abroad are ineligible for this grant.
  6. Foreign nationals residing in Japan are ineligible for this grant.
  7. There will be 9 travel grants, each with a maximum value of USD1,000.
  8. Travel grants will be awarded to the presenting authors following a merit-based evaluation of the presentation made at the Congress and review of a manuscript submitted for possible publication in the JSPS issue of PSI.
  9. All abstracts and manuscripts must be in English.
  10. If there are numerous applicants, grants will be awarded based on merit after evaluation of the submitted manuscript.
  11. If there are numerous authors, one of the authors (usually the first author) must be designated to present the abstract at the Congress and the presenting author will be awarded the grant and must be present to accept it.
  12. Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection will be e-mailed to the designated presenting author after Friday 7th February 2020.
  13. Presentation of an abstract accepted by the Congress and submission of a manuscript by non-Japanese applicants based overseas and less than 40 at the end of the Congress are the basic requirements for application. Please check carefully before applying to avoid disappointment.
  14. Any enquiries, please contact the Organizing Secretariat.

Congress Secretariat Office
Organizing Secretariat
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Kojimachi Parkside Building 402
4-7, Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083, Japan
Phone：+81-3-5275-1191 FAX：+81-3-5275-1192
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