Each
year, a number of grants are awarded to ISCA members to assist with the cost of
registration and accommodation at major conferences. A number of these awards
are directly funded by ISCA whilst others are funded by INTERSPEECH conferences.
For all these awards, the selection and administration of the grants is done by
ISCA under the supervision of the ISCA Grants Coordinator (currently, Prof.
George Kokkinakis from the University of
Grants
awarded from 2002 to 2004
Year
Applications made
Grants awarded Success
rate
2002
40
37
92.5%
2003
60
43
71.7%
2004
81
55
67.9%
Note
the sizeable increase in applications year on year. The success rate has been in
the region of 70% for the last two years.
Detailed
description of 2004 awards
For
2004 a total of 55 grants were awarded for five events as
follows:
Ø
Speech
Prosody 2004,
Ø
Journes
d’Etude sur la Parole 2004,
Ø
Workshop
on Speech Synthesis,
Ø
Odyssey
2004,
Ø
ICSLP
2004,
35 of
the grants were directly funded by ISCA and 20 by the ICSLP 2004
organisers.
Of
the 26 rejected applications, 6 were rejected because they were from the same
University department (which was awarded 2 grants) 5 because of very late
submission, 2 because of a previous grant award and 13 because of budget
limitations.
From
the above ISCA supported grants (35), 4 covered registration and part of the
accommodation, 3 only accommodation and 28 only registration. The ICSLP
supported grants (20) cover registration and cheap accommodation. The total
amount awarded by ISCA is: €8,021.00 out of a budget of €8,240.00 for
2004.
The
55 grants awarded in 2004 were distributed to applicants from 26 countries.
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1 |
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1 |
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2 |
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1 |
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9 |
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1 |
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1 |
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9 |
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|
1 |
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2 |
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|
1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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|
1 |
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|
1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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|
1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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4 |
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2 |
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1 |
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5 |
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4 |
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1 |
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Total |
55 |