Society Events Grant

• Full Member
• Full Concessionary Member
• Postgraduate Student Members
• Undergraduate Student Members

We welcome applications from eligible members working in industry, applied, clinical or infection science settings.

A minimum membership period of one year and two consecutive membership payments is required. Postgraduate and Undergraduate Students with three-year memberships will need to have completed one year membership (three-year membership payment constitutes consecutive payment).

 

Eligible members in the UK and Ireland can apply for up to £350 for Annual Conference, and £200 for Focused Meetings (in-person attendance only).

 

Eligible members outside the UK and Ireland can apply for up to £650 for Annual Conference, and £400 for Focused Meeting (in-person attendance only).

 

Eligible members can apply for funding to attend the Society’s overseas Focused Meetings up to a maximum of £750.

 

Awards are intended as a contribution to the costs of registration, travel, and accommodation to attend an event.

Awards are made on the basis that funds are sought from as many avenues as are available to the applicants. Members of the Society are eligible to apply for a Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Meeting Attendance Grant.

All registered delegates will be offered the opportunity to make use of these free childcare services at Annual Conference (not available at Focused Meetings), which will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

Applications should be made online via Mi Society.

 

You will be required to provide a full breakdown of expected costs of attendance in the appropriate part of the application.

 

Please read all information on this page carefully and ensure you have read and agreed to the grant rules before submitting an application.

 

Opening and closing dates for applications to attend the following events in 2025 are below:

• EC Summer Conference 2025 will open on 12 May 2025 and close on 24 May 2025 at 23:59 BST.
• Candida and Candidiasis 2025  will open on 09 June 2025 and close on 23 June 2025 at 23:59 BST.
• Understanding and Predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics 2025 will open on 01 September and will close on 15 September at 23.59 BST.
• Microbes in Microbiomes 2026 will open on 12 November 2025 and close on 26 November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.

Applications will be considered by the Society against the following criteria:

• Applicant fulfils the stated eligibility criteria.
• Attendance of the event is dependent on a clear and stated benefit to the applicants’ professional development.
• Applicants who have provided a detailed breakdown of costs, including cost-saving measures and how other sources of funding have been sought towards the costs of attending the meeting.
• If we receive more applications than we are able to fund for Annual Conference 2025, priority will be given to those presenting at the conference, early career members, and those without access to alternative funds.

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Publishing for the community

We are a membership charity and a not-for-profit publisher. Submissions to our titles support the community, ensuring that we continue to provide grants, events, and professional development for microbiologists at all career stages.

Please consider publishing with us so that we can support more members to benefit from the experience. Just one article published with us generates the revenue to give grants to four early career members to attend Annual Conference or seven early career members to attend a Focused Meeting.

If you are new to publishing and would like to find out more, visit our Publishing Fundamentals resources.

 

Applicants should expect to receive notification of the outcome of their application approximately six weeks after the closing date.

 

Applicants will be notified of an awarded grant via email. The grant award will also be displayed on the Mi Society account under ‘Grant History’.