Student Travel Award

The Zhipu Student Travel Awards for the 2023 ACM The Web Conference Call for Student Travel Award Applications

The ACM Web Conference aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture.

Travel Awards (10-20) of up to US$1000 will be made available for students, with the exact value depending on the geographical areas (to maximize our reach), diversity (to improve inclusion), topics (to expand into new areas) and submission type. The travel grant cannot be advanced but is instead paid as a reimbursement or a lump sum after the conference takes place, as per ACM rules. Forms, instructions, and a contact e-mail address at ACM will be provided to all grantees.

The purpose of the Travel Award is to help offset the travel costs for full-time students who are planning to attend the conference in-person. The aim of the travel award is to encourage students to participate in the workshops, tutorials, the main conference and other career enhancement programs at the Web Conference as well as to increase diversity of the participants at the conference.

While we encourage submissions from all students in need of travel support, the selection process will give higher priority to students with greater involvement in the conference (presenter and co-authors). The allocation of the grants will be based on need, and potential impact of the applicant’s attendance in increasing the diversity of the conference participation The Travel Award seeks to promote diverse participation at The Web Conference. We strongly encourage applications from students who are in underrepresented groups and Economically Developing Countries.

The student travel award is sponsored by Zhipu AI.

Eligibility

To apply you must be a student (undergraduate, graduate and PhDs are welcome to apply). Preference will be given to those applicants presenting (papers/posters) at the conference. Note that for co-authored papers, only the first author is eligible to apply for the award unless he, she, zhe, or them is unable to attend the conference.

How to apply

All applicants need to submit their applications to the easychair system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd select Student Grant track) with the following files as a single PDF file:

• CV (which includes the applicant’s current status, including institution, type of study [undergraduate, MS, or PhD], number of years entering the current program etc.)
• a brief one-page statement that includes:
• the applicant’s research interest and their future research plans,
• a description of how the grant will help them with their research/study plans,
• how the attendance of the applicant will increase the diversity in the conference
• the total budget for attending The Web Conference, and how the travel award can help close the gap for attending the conference.
• a recommendation letter from the applicant’s advisor supporting the application, that:
• confirms that the applicant is a student in good standing,
• describes how the applicant will benefit from attending The Web Conference, and
• explains why the student is in need of the travel award and whether there is funding available to cover the expenses that are not covered by the student travel award.

Application Deadline: March 31, 2023
Notifications: April 10, 2023

Late submissions, or documents in other formats will not be accepted.