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At
the Arid Zone Ecology
Forum (AZEF) meeting in
Kakamas in September 2000
a decision was made (at
the AGM) to financially
support university and
technikon students’ attendance
of future AZEF meetings.
The main purposes would
be
- to assist
students who did not have
the financial resources
to attend AZEF meetings
and
- to encourage participation
from previously disadvantaged
people and institutions.
The procedure should be as
follows:
Details
of student sponsorship
will be given in
the AZEF’s
first and second
announcements. The
closing date for
applications for
sponsorship will
be exactly six weeks
before the starting
date of the AZEF
meeting. The attendance
of a select number of students
will be
sponsored for each
AZEF meeting. An amount
of 25%, 50%, 75%
or 100% of the student’s
registration fee
will be sponsored.
In
exceptional cases,
consideration will
also be given to
subsidizing students'
travelling and accommodation
costs.
The applications
will be assessed
by at least three
members of the AZEF
steering committee. The assessment of applications
must take the following into account:
- The student’s financial position, and or
- Whether
the student is from
a previously disadvantaged
institution.
The
following criteria will
be used when evaluating
the applications:
The
student must present
a paper and/or poster
at the AZEF meeting.
The
paper/poster must
be the results of
work that has been
conducted (i.e. not a project
proposal). The
student’s paper/poster
abstract must be
examined to determine
the relevance of
the research to the
arid zone. The research
(and proposed presentation)
must also be of a
high standard. The
student must be a
South African citizen
(however, in exceptional
cases non-South Africans
studying at South
African institutions
will be considered
for sponsorship).
Although
not of primary importance,
consideration
will be given to
sponsoring the attendance
of previously disadvantaged
students, especially
those conducting
studies at previously
disadvantaged institutions.
Applications
for sponsorship must
include the following:
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