Christa Stehling Travel Grants

(formerly Ortrud Muehrer Travel Grants)

The BNITM sponsors’ club, the „Association of Friends of the Hamburg Institute for Tropical Medicine“, awards so-called Christa Stehling Travel Grants to health-related professionals and students from low- and middle-income countries enabling them to participate in training programmes at BNITM in Hamburg. The grants cover participation fees and travel-related expenses.

Eligibility

Eligible are any health-related professionals and students originating and working in low- and middle-income countries (as defined by the UN/World Bank) who have successfully
Repeated applications are possible but priority will be given to applicants with no successful previous applications. Re-applicants are requested to submit a new application form.

Benefits

Successful applicants will be granted
- up to € 2,000 for the participation in short courses or meetings
- and up to approximately € 4,500 for the participation in the 3-months’ Diploma Course
as verified by receipts for expenses including
- economy airfare (to and from Hamburg),
- visa fees,
- accommodation costs for the duration of the scientific programme (per diems cannot be granted), and
- participation fees.

Eine Gruppe von 6 jungen Forschern, die als fröhliche Gruppe auf einer steinernden Treppe vor einem Antiken Gebäude stehen. — OMTG Grant holders from 2019. ©BNITM

Procedures

Application
- Please download and fill in the electronic “Application Form for the Christa Stehling Travel Grant” and submit all documents requested in the form online to vdf@bnitm.de.
- Please indicate your successful application to attend a scientific meeting or training programme at BNITM by including reference to a ‘Letter of Acceptance’, signed by a BNITM programme coordinator.
Application deadlines are 4 months prior to the start of the scientific meeting or training programme you have been accepted to attend.
Selection process: The selection of successful applicants will be based on reviews of the application forms. These will, firstly, be examined by the programme coordinators to meet formal requirements and, secondly, reviewed by an external scientist and the BNITM Chairman of the Board for their contents. Upon final selection, confirmation letters will be sent to the successful candidates by the programme coordinators via email.
Reimbursement
- Payments on account are possible upon submission of a formal invoice.
- Upon arrival at BNITM, please document all travel related costs on the "Reimbursement Form of the Christa Stehling Travel Grant” and submit all original receipts.
- Applicants must state on the reimbursement form if they have successfully secured any additional funding for the expenses applied for through the Ortrud Mührer Travel Grant and delineate point-by-point the amounts received for the various expenses. In such cases, payments on account must possibly be repaid.
- Reimbursement will take place at BNITM.
- Please note that the maximum sum of reimbursement will be € 2,000; even if eligible, no expenses exceeding this amount can be reimbursed.