Students & Funding
- IJCAI-15 Student Volunteer Program
- IJCAI-15 Student Travel Grants for Doctoral Consortium
- IJCAI-15 Local Refunding Program
- IJCAI-AIJ Travel Grants Program
- Low-Cost Housing for Students
- For information about the Doctoral Consortium, please click here.
IJCAI-15 Student Volunteer Program
IJCAI is pleased to announce the continuation of their Student Volunteer Program for 2015. The Student Volunteer Program is an essential part of the conference. Volunteers will support IJCAI-15 organizers in Buenos Aires, helping with different activities during the conference, such as welcoming attendants at the registration desk or recording the tutorials. The technical program registration fee will be waived to student volunteers.
Application deadline: May 15, 2015
Call for Student Volunteers (PDF)
Online Application Form (Closed)
Decisions will be notified via e-mail by June 5, 2015.
For further information, please contact IJCAI-15 at volunteers [at] ijcai-15.org.
IJCAI-15 Student Travel Grants for Doctoral Consortium
Students with a paper accepted at the Doctoral Consortium can also apply for funding from the Doctoral Consortium.
Please visit the Doctoral Consortium section for information on how to apply.
Application Deadline: Friday May 15 (CEST - Central European Summer Time or UTC+2).
IJCAI-15 Local Refunding Program
Besides the IJCAI-AIJ Travel Grants Program (see below), there will be a limited amount of resources available to partially support students and researchers attending IJCAI-15. This program is intended for students and researchers from Latin-American countries.
Application deadline: May 15, 2015
Call for Applications (PDF): Español / Português
Online Application Form (closed)
Decisions will be notified via e-mail by June 5, 2015.
For further information, please contact IJCAI-15 at volunteers [at] ijcai-15.org.
IJCAI-AIJ Travel Grants Program
The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI] Organization, in collaboration with the AI Journal, is pleased to announce the continuation of its Travel Grants Program for students, junior scientists and scientists attending IJCAI-15 to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during July 25-31, 2015. The IJCAI-15 Travel Grants Program is sponsored in full by the IJCAI Organization and its Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) Division.
Application Procedure
Due to limited availability of funds for the IJCAI Travel Grants Program, applicants, especially students, should first approach their department and/or local AI society for support before applying to IJCAI. Applicants should submit the IJCAI-15 Travel Grant Application Form (and accompanying documents) via email attachment to ijcai-15-grants [at] ijcai.org, no later than May 15, 2015 midnight CEST. A decision will be sent by June 2, 2015.
Get the Travel Grant Application Form (txt file)
In addition to contact information, the application should include:
- status of the applicant (student, junior faculty, etc.) with evidence of existing interest and expertise in AI
- type of planned participation in the IJCAI-15 program (accepted technical session or workshop paper, etc.)
- an estimate of attendance costs
- the results of approaching the department/local AI Society for support
- whether any other sources of support are available to the applicant
- a case for support that includes reasons why IJCAI should make the grant to the applicant and
- a letter of support (for students only) from the applicant's advisor/head of department.
A post-conference report and receipts totaling the grant amount will be required after the conference in order to receive the grant. In the event that travel grant applications exceed available funds, preference will be given to students who have an accepted technical paper, and then to students who are actively participating in the conference in some way.
If electronic transfer of materials is not possible, please send hard copy to:
Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Secretary
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry E104
Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10
A-1040 Vienna
Austria
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Please allow 24 hours for application receipt confirmation from the IJCAI. If you do not receive the receipt confirmation, please contact IJCAI Executive Secretary at e-s [at] ijcai.org.
- If you receive a grant, you will be required to confirm the acceptance. Failure to do so shall result in a loss of the grant!
Low-Cost Housing for Students
This is a list of low-cost hostels that are located nearby the conference venues in downtown Buenos Aires. This list is provided for information purposes only. IJCAI has no agreement or relation with these hostels, so please do not contact IJCAI Committee members with questions regarding these hostels.
Students & Funding