How to Apply for C-PIC Participation Fund
You will need to complete a short online form and submit this to us prior to attending the event.
The short form asks you for the following information:
- Your name
- Email address
- Job category (please tick): academic/research staff (including PDRAs, Fellows and Visiting Researchers), professional enabling staff (e.g. grant managers, project administrators), technical and experimental staff, doctoral student, other
- Your institution/organisation name
- Name and date of C-PIC conference/event/activity you are applying for funding to attend
- What are you applying for funding to cover? Choose all options that are applicable:
- Travel, accommodation costs e.g. rail fare, hotel stay
- Caring costs e.g. childcare, or to support care of elderly or disabled adult relatives
- Accessibility costs e.g. audio-visual, personal assistance
- Other: please state
- Total amount of funding requested (£)
In the interest of value for money and to support the appropriate use of public funds, applicants are expected to be prudent in their spending, for example use economy travel where appropriate. - Please provide an itemised list of costs you are requesting funding for (£)
Please provide as much detail as possible e.g. train costs from and to £x, carer / assistant costs number of hrs @ £x etc - Briefly describe why the requested support is needed to enable you to fully participate in the event/activity (up to 200 words)
Please provide as much detail as necessary to support your application. In this section, we also expect to see that:- Your employer has been approached in the first instance to meet these costs and is unable to do so.
- These are additional costs i.e. they would result from you participating in the C-PIC event/activity and are not associated with your normal routine.
What happens to my application after it is submitted?
Your application will be reviewed by our EDI team who will contact you directly with a decision. Each case will be assessed on an individual basis according to our eligibility criteria.
We may contact you for further information if we need help to understand your application.
If your application meets our eligibility criteria, a payment will be made on receipt of a claim following the event. You will need to fill out an expenses form that will be sent to you and to provide proof of purchase (we require original receipts to authorise a claim). Claimants should note that any tax liability is their own responsibility.
