DAIS'2001 Conference will be supported by the European Commission, Human Potential Programme DG RTD-F1.

Participants may apply for grants to cover:

• Up to 100 % of expenses related to the participation of young researchers (up to the age of 35 during DAIS'2001), who are nationals of a Member State or an Associated State, and active inside a Member State or a State Associated to EU (like Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Israel) at the time of the conference.
  
  
• Up to 100 % of expenses related to the participation of researchers (of any age), who are nationals of a Member State or an Associated State, and professionally active outside Member States and Associated States at the time of the conference.
  
  The eligible costs include travel, hotel and participation fees - including tutorials fee.
  
  Residence Criterion: Nationals of third countries may be supported if they have been residing in a EU Member State for at least the last five years prior to the starting date of the DAIS'2001 Conference.

If you meet the above criteria, fill in, sign, fax and post the Grant Request and Registration Form by 17 July to the address:

DAIS'2001
ACC CYFRONET AGH
ul. Nawojki 11, P.O.Box 386
30–950 Kraków 61
Poland
fax: (+48 12) 6341084

It is not necessary to submit any other registration form then.

The deadline for sending Grant Request and Registration Forms is 17 July 2001. After that date applications will be considered and short-listed for grant awarding.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by e-mail by 3 August 2001.

The DAIS'2001 Conference organisers reserve the right to reject requests failing to meet the criteria defined by the European Commission, as well as to grant only part of the requested sum as the overall funding is limited. In particular, if the total of grant requests exceeds the funds available, requests for conference fee and hotel will take precedence. Participants are therefore advised to seek funding for travel expenses in parallel from other sources.

If granted, hotel room fees will be transferred directly to the hotel.
Travel costs, if granted, will be reimbursed to the participant's employing institution on a basis of an invoice submitted to the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow after the grant request is accepted.

The grants will be effective only if the contract negotiations are successfully completed and the necessary funds obtained by the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow, Poland.