35th IGC Invitation for YES members: Travel Grants and Deadlines Extension (Feb 29)!

Dear YES Members,

You are cordially invited to the 35th International Geological Congress that will take place from 27th August  to 4th September 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa.

The 35th IGC is highly supporting the contributions of YES Network members worldwide. Beside the inclusion of YES talks in all sessions of the congress, the organizing committee is offering travel grants to YES members through the GeoHost programme; GeoHost is a support scheme that aims to provide financial support to selected young earth scientists from around the globe, or eligible geoscientists who live and work in low-income countries to attend the 35TH IGC in 2016. Financial support obtained by the 35th IGC through sponsorship or funding mechanisms will be utilised to assist young geoscientists (inclusive of YES participants) and deserving geoscientists from low-income countries to participate in the 35TH IGC as full delegates. For more information, please visit the following link and send your applicationshttp://www.35igc.org/Verso/41/GeoHost.

Important: In order to be eligible as a YES members for the GeoHost programme, you need to register in the new YES Network website in order to confirm your membership. Please visit the following link to register: http://www.networkyes.org/

Note: Deadline for both abstract submissions and GeoHost applications is postponed to February 29th, 2016.

We hope to see and meet many of you in Cape Town soon. Stay tuned!

YES Network Executive Team (ex-officios)

www.networkyes.org