Application

Travel grants provide financial support to students and faculties affiliated with universities with limited funding opportunities (e.g., universities in developing countries) to attend the VLDB 2017 conference to be held at Munich, Germany, August 28 – September 01, 2017 (http://www.vldb.org/2017/). The long-term goal of the program is to encourage talented young scientists to pursue a career in database research. The VLDB Travel Fellowship Program provides 10 fellowships that allow free registration and grant an additional amount of US$1,500 toward other costs such as travel and lodging. Fellowship recipients are responsible for their own travel arrangements, including health insurance, if necessary.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria

Applicants must be:

• full-time students in good standing (graduate or undergraduate), or postdoctoral fellows/researchers, or faculty members who either are
  • affiliated with universities that do not already have considerable presence at VLDB conferences or
  • have a paper at the conference (or associated events).

Applicants must explicitly state that they do not have any other funding to attend. Preference will be given to applicants who are primary authors of a paper accepted at the main conference or the workshops in VLDB 2017, or otherwise demonstrate keen interest in database research, and are from regions that are under-represented in the database community.

Application Process

• Applicants should fill out the form following the link: https://goo.gl/forms/r6FVX596j7n0FU9g2 by July 06, 2017.
  
  
• Applicants must also have a nominator (faculty advisor for student applicants, or senior faculty member or department head for faculty applicants), who will fill the form following the link: https://goo.gl/forms/ZwQBIkR3elznEcxH3.
  
  
• Additionally, nominators are kindly asked to send an extra email from their personal email-account to: vldbtravelgrant@gmail.com before July 06, 2017 with the subject line of the email being "VLDB 2017 Travel Fellowship Nomination for <first-name-last-name-of-applicant-here>" in which they confirm their nomination of the applicant.
  
  
• (Note: For the benefit of applicants from countries like China, which unfortunately block google and other sites, application forms formatted as an Excel sheet are provided for applications and for nominators; the filled spreadsheet can be e-mailed to vldbtravelgrant@gmail.com).
  
  
• Selected candidates will be informed by July 12, 2017. People applying for the VLDB fellowships are advised to not register before hearing from us (or on July 15, 2017, if for some reason you don’t hear from us by then), since the fellowship includes free registration; note that the early registration deadline is 15 July 2017.
  
  

Divy Agrawal, Bin Cui, Juliana Freire, Wolfgang Lehner, Sharad Mehrotra

SPEND Committee, VLDB Endowment
vldbtravelgrant@gmail.com
www.vldb.org