Financial support of up 7500 € for travel and accommodation for external speakers and similar direct costs at the hosting institution is possible (no lump sum payments).

Conditions for application: 

• At least one event organizer must be a quantA PI (https://www.quantumscience.at/quanta-researchers) or be a group member of a quantA PI at one of the six partner institutions. The PI needs to sign the application and one person needs to function as the primary contact for the application, report and communication.
• The event must take place in Austria and engage the Austrian quantum community. It must address at least one of the three core questions within quantA’s research areas (see www.quantumscience.at/research/research-areas).
• The application needs to clearly describe the relevance for quantA and the impact the event has on the quantA community.
• The event needs to be open to quantA members to register and information about the registration needs to be given with the application to be published by quantA. The event shoule be registered at the quantA platform: www.quantumscience.at/quantum2025/aktivitaet-einreichen

Application procedure: 

• The organizers must submit an application form to the Board of Directors (BoD) via quanta@uibk.ac.at at least ten weeks before the event is scheduled to take place.
• The BoD will consider the application within the next four weeks and will inform the organizers of the outcome.
• Support is subject to the availability of funds and cannot be guaranteed.
• All criteria must be fulfilled to get full support. If not all criteria are met, or the submission is late, funding may be rejected or reduced at the discretion of the BoD.

Grant requirements

For the execution of conference grants the scientific manager will coordinate with the organizers and the hosting institution to reimburse expenses and about reporting requirements, which are:

• The organizers must acknowledge quantA on the event website, the event program and all other advertising materials as well as in reports, as defined by quantA.
• A short report, containing important information (costs, activities, number of participants, contents etc.) about the event and its outcomes has to be sent to quanta@uibk.ac.at no later than two weeks after the event takes place. quantA will provide a template for the report.
• The applicants need to consent to the publication of the report by quantA and to provide any further supporting documents (such as invoices, receipts, attendance records etc.) should quantA ask for them.