[Bldg-sim] Extended deadline of **Thursday 14 February 2013** for nominations for IBPSA Student Travel Awards

[Pieter De Wilde]

Dear All:

I have had several request to extend the deadline for nominations to the IBPSA Student Travel Awards. In order to accomodate those still working on their papers, but also taking into account practical constraints at my own end, the deadline will be extended to Thursday 14 February 2013.
All other details remain as posted. As a reminder, the earlier call for nominations is copied below.

Best regards,
Pieter de Wilde



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Student Travel Awards – Supporting students to attend BS2013
Travel to IBPSA Conferences can be an expensive business – especially for students. In order to assist as many students as possible to participate in BS 2013 in Chambray, France, IBPSA will grant a number of travel awards of up to 1000USD to students presenting papers. The number of places is limited to a maximum of 5 grants and as a result is highly competitive.

The selection committee bases its decisions upon the following selection criteria:

•           overall quality of the paper;

•           relevance of contribution to the field of and/or furthering the effective application of building simulation;

•           need for financial assistance, evidenced in a letter of recommendation from the student’s supervisor/ advisor of studies (must be on university letterhead).


To be eligible, the student must be:

•           enrolled in a graduate programme related to building simulation at the time of the conference; AND

•           the thesis project must be directly related to building simulation.

Applications MUST be supported by a letter of recommendation from the student’s supervisor/ advisor of studies. Applications for the award must be made by Thursday 14 February, 2013 via e-mail to
pieter.dewilde at plymouth.ac.uk. The subject heading of the e-mail should be "Student Travel Award - paper XXX" where XXX is the three-digit reference number for your paper.
The e-mail application must include the following:
       The student's name;
       The name of the programme, department, faculty, and university;
       The title of the PhD or Master's research;
       The name of the student's supervisor(s)/ advisor(s);
       A scanned version of the faculty recommendation letter on university letterhead in PDF format. (Note that the original letter must be presented to the Conference Secretariat at the conference).

The selection committee will base its decision upon a review of the final manuscripts. Therefore, to be eligible the student MUST submit the paper by the full paper deadline.
Nominations should be sent in the first instance to Pieter de Wilde as representative of the Awards Committee (pieter.dewilde at plymouth.ac.uk) by the closing date of the 14 February 2013.

We would like as many nominations as possible, so please contact me to discuss a possible nomination if required.

Payment will be made either to the academic department before the conference or directly to the student at the conference.

Best regards,

Pieter de Wilde