The Society offers travel awards to support participation of scientists at important international meetings. These are the properties of ISPID travel awards:

• Travel awards will be granted up to a maximum of 500 EUR each for economy class air travel and airport connection fares. The amount cannot exceed actual travel expenses.
  
  
• Travel awards will be granted preferably to applicants from countries in which funding is likely to be limited, according to this OECD list
  
  
• Applicants must be below 35 years of age.
  
  
• Applicants must be presenting at least one paper or poster at the conference.
  
  
• Applicants must not have received an ISPID travel award before.
  
  
• Any applicant or appointed award winner must be a personal member of ISPID or at least have applied for membership before he or she is entitled to receive the award.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to award@ispid.org or by conventional mail to the following address:

ISPID
c/o RKI - FG 23
Seestr. 10
13353 Berlin
Germany

Travel Awards have been given to the following persons:

Christopher J. Finlay, PhD Candidate in Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication in Philadelphia, USA, for his presentation at the 9th SIDS International Conference in Yokohama, Japan, on on 1-4 June 2006:
Krueger G, Finlay CJ. Forever Remembered in Cyberspace: An Analysis of Online Memorial Sites for Sudden Infant Deaths.