Awards and Training

BPS has moved to three Awards & Training deadlines per year:

1st February: Student Bursaries

Summer Undergraduate Internships
1st May: Student Bursaries

Project Awards

Outreach Project Awards
1st November:Student Bursaries

Early Career Researcher Bursaries for the BPS Annual Meeting

Further details of these funding schemes can be found in an updated version of the BPS Funding Guidelines – download here. Applications must be made by the deadline listed through our awards submission portal. The portal is very simple, it requires: 1) your name, 2) your valid email address and 3) a completed application form. Please note that awards would be covering registration, travel and accommodation but they no longer cover subsistence.

Application Forms

Funding from the Federation of European Microbiological Societies

BPS is an active member of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies which gives BPS members access to the FEMS funding schemes.

Two BPS members were recently awarded FEMS grants.