Travel Grant

Application Deadline:

December 1st (Wed), 2021

As an incentive to encourage young surgeons or trainees based outside of Japan to submit original abstracts for oral or poster presentation, the organizing committee has organized a travel grant to be awarded to maximum 10 participants as a token of our appreciation for attending the Congress. Abstracts may be about any topic that is related clinically, or through basic science, to pediatric surgery and pediatric urology. Applicants cannot live in Japan and must be under the age of 40 at the end of the Congress. Applications may be made using the abstract submission form. Please check the conditions listed below before making an application.

Conditions for applying for a travel grant

1. Applicants may be surgical trainees or qualified specialist surgeons and must be based outside of Japan.
2. Applicants must be younger than 40 years old at the end of the Congress.
3. Applicants may submit more than one abstract.
4. An applicant must submit a manuscript for each abstract accepted for presentation at the Congress (oral or poster) to the Publications Committee for review for possible publication in the JSPS issue of Pediatric Surgery International (PSI). A manuscript must be submitted otherwise the application will be invalid.
5. Japanese nationals residing abroad are ineligible for this grant.
6. Foreign nationals residing in Japan are ineligible for this grant.
7. Travel grant will be awarded to maximum 10 participants.
8. Travel grants will be awarded to the presenting authors following a merit-based evaluation of the presentation made at the Congress and review of a manuscript submitted for possible publication in the JSPS issue of PSI.
9. All abstracts and manuscripts must be in English.
10. If there are numerous applicants, grants will be awarded based on merit after evaluation of the submitted manuscript.
11. Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection will be e-mailed to the corresponding author on late February 2022.(tentative)

Any enquiries, please contact the Organizing Secretariat.