IAHPC Traveling Scholarships to the 14th World Congress of the EAPC

The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) are pleased to announce that they will provide ten (10) scholarships to support the travel of palliative care workers to attend the 14th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC Onlus).

The applicants must be:

• Living in Lower, Lower-Middle and Upper-Middle income categories as per the World Bank income classification data. See here.
• Active members of IAHPC.
• Working actively in palliative care.
• Registered as web users at the EAPC database online (free of charge) at EAPCNET website.
• Preference will be given to individuals who have not received an IAHPC or OSF grant in the past three years, with accepted poster or oral presentations in the Congress.

EAPC will give discounted registration fees to individuals from countries in the Lower and Lower-Middle categories. Winners of the scholarships will benefit from this discount. Additional information about the congress is available in the congress website at EAPC-2015 website.

Applications from physicians, nurses, psychologists and other disciplines are welcome. If you wish to apply and are not an IAHPC member, you may join by clicking here.

More detailed information about the application process and the online form are available at the IAHPC website here.

Applicants who submitted abstracts and whose posters are accepted, also need to send to IAHPC the confirmation of the acceptance after they receive it from EAPC.

Deadline to apply is January 30, 2015. Results will be announced by early February.

If you need information on how to apply or how to become a member, please contact Ana Restrepo, IAHPC Operations Officer at amrestrepo@iahpc.com.