[PlanetKR] Student travel grants for Design Semantics 2014 (Bari, June 30-July 2, 2014)

[Francesca A. Lisi]

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

to attend the scientific event sponsored by the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence

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              IAOA SIG Workshop on
   Ontologies, Inference, and Standards for Spatial Design
	
	Bari, Italy, June 30-July 2, 2014
	<http://www.designsemantics.org>

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The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence offers travel 
grants, which partially support the travel, the accommodation and the 
meal expenses, for the participation of students in the scientific event

             IAOA SIG Workshop on
   Ontologies, Inference, and Standards for Spatial Design

All candidates should
- be enrolled in a Bachelor, Master or PhD program or be recently 
graduated from a Bachelor/Master program;
- be a member of AI*IA for 2014;
- have good English skills.

The candidates should send the travel grant application to Francesca A. 
Lisi (by email to: francesca.lisi at uniba.it) by April 30, 2014.

The application should include:
- the personal data, the phone number and the email address;
- a one-page (at most 500 words) curriculum vitae of the candidate.
Bachelor/Master students should include the average mark; recently 
graduated students should include the graduation mark;
- a letter from a researcher/professor including an assessment of the 
current status of the candidate (i.e., student/recently graduated);
- a budget estimating the travel, accommodation and meal expenses 
(excepting the symposium registration fee that cannot be refunded by the 
grant)
- the amount of the requested grant (that must be lower than 600 euros 
and lower than or equal to the estimated budget).

The applications will be evaluated by the commission formed by
- Mehul Bhatt (organizing committee of the event)
- Francesca A. Lisi (organizing committee of the event)
- Fabrizio Riguzzi (AI*IA board of directors)

The commission will evaluate the submitted applications, and will select 
the students that will receive travel grants on the basis of the 
following priorities
1)	bachelor and master students and, among these, according to the 
average of their exam grades
2)	recent graduates
3)	PhD students
The selected students will have to confirm their participation in the 
symposium in 2 days. After the event, the selected students will have to 
send a scanned copy of the certificate of attendance and of the receipts 
of their travel, accommodation and meal expenses
for which they ask reinmboursement, to the AI*IA  treasurer Sara Manzoni 
<manzoni at disco.unimib.it> together with their IBAN account number.
Moreover, they have to send the originals of the receipts by mail to the 
AI*IA accountant

Dott. Marco Ori
Studio associato Mancaruso
Via S. Mamolo 29
CAP 40136
Bologna

For additional information on this call, please contact Francesca A. 
Lisi (by sending an email to: francesca.lisi at uniba.it).