Grants For Attendance

We hope to encourage attendance from IIC members who are at different stages of their career including students and early career professionals. Details of grants currently available are listed below.  

Fondazione Centro Conservazione e Restauro “La Venaria Reale” / University of Turin / Compagnia di San Paolo scholarship awards

The Fondazione Centro Conservazione e Restauro “La Venaria Reale”, in partnership with the University of Turin, is delighted to offer financial support to Italian and international university conservation students wishing to attend the IIC 2018 Congress via the provision of up to 15 scholarships, funded by Compagnia di San Paolo.

Successful students will be able to attend Congress sessions but will be expected to provide support with Congress logistics, including helping to manage activities such as registrations. 

More details including the full announcement can be found at the the Centro Conservazione e Restauro 'La Venaria Reale' website here.

Support Targets

5  students  attending  the  final  year  of  the  full-time  Master’s  Degree  Course  in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Turin-CCR and currently engaged in the master degree thesis.

10 students currently enrolled in:
FOR ITALIAN STUDENTS
the final year of a final second-cycle qualifications and/or engaged in thesis (Italian “tesisti”) in a Conservation Course leading to an academic qualification recognised by Mibact/Miur (Second cycle/ EQF level 7).
or
FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
in the final year of a second-cycle qualifications Conservation Course (Second cycle/ EQF level 7).

These grants are not available to first level degree course (BA/BSc) students.

Scholarship award grants

The 5 scholarships for students of the Turin University Master’s Degree Course in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage include:
a.  free admission to the Congress
b.  100€ for travel costs

The 10 scholarships for national students enrolled in the final year of a Master’s Degree course and/or engaged in a master degree thesis (Italian “tesisti”) and international students include:
a.  free admission to the Congress
b.  400€ for travel and accommodation costs

Scholarship recipients will be awarded a tutor's certificate of full-time attendance at the activities of the Congress (from 10 to 14 September 2018).

Application
The deadline for application is 20 July 2018. Application forms may be found at the Centro Conservazione e Restauro 'La Venaria Reale' website here at https://www.centrorestaurovenaria.it/it/?option=com_chronoforms&chronoform=IIC. 

Online applications will include the uploading of the following documents:
- a Curriculum Vitae/resume
- the student's career self-certification with a list of exams passed (students from Turin University may download their certification from MyUniTO)
- an Application letter explaining how attendance at the Congress will benefit the applicant

Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

In accordance with the Italian D.L. 196/2003, students’ personal data will be collected and processed by the Fondazione Centro Conservazione e Restauro 'La Venaria Reale' only for the purposes of this specific call for applications.

Successful applicants will be notified via e-mail by the Educational Office of the Fondazione Centro Conservazione e Restauro, no later than July 6th, 2018. Applicants will be informed of the arrangements for payment of the scholarship at this time.

The Brommelle Memorial fund: Help for Student Members of IIC

- Applications now closed

This fund was established in 1990 in memory of Norman Brommelle, who was Secretary-General of IIC between 1958 and 1988. The fund is used to provide assistance for students of conservation who wish to attend the Institute’s international congresses. Students are defined as those enrolled in a full-time course of conservation training leading to a recognised academic qualification. Students may apply at any time during their course of study, including their final year or internship. Applicants must be a currently paid-up member of IIC. In order to spread funding over as wide a geographical area as possible, it may be necessary to restrict the number of recipients from any one organisation.

Successful applicants will be required to submit a short report of their participation at the 2018 Congress afterwards. The Fund will normally provide only a part of the total cost of attending the congress and it is important that students should attempt to obtain additional funding from elsewhere. Successful applicants will receive not less than the amount of the Congress Fee. The application deadlien was 22 May 2018.

Getty Foundation Grants 

- Applications now closed

The Gabo Trust

- Applications now closed

As with previous IIC Congresses, we are delighted to have the participation of the Gabo Trust for Sculpture Conservation in the 2018 Turin Congress. The theme of the 2018 Congress, ‘Preventive Conservation: The State of the Art’, is particularly relevant to the work of the Gabo Trust.

Application is now closed; details may be found at the Gabo Trust web-site: http://www.gabotrust.org/grants-and-applications/travelgrantsandresearch... a first enquiry is made by using the Gabo Trust’s web-site ‘Contact us’ section. Please note that the deadline for applications to the Gabo Trust was 31 May 2018 and that applicants did not need not be members of the IIC

Tru Vue

- Applications now closed

Thanks to the generosity of Tru Vue, we have been able to offer a very limited number of grants each of US$1,000 (subject to confirmation) to assist the attendance of practising conservators to attend the Congress. These grants are not available to students nor to recipients of other IIC-managed grants related to attendance at the IIC 2018 Congress. Application was open to individuals from any part of the world currently in employment in heritage conservation in either a public or a private capacity. Payment of these grants will be made after the end of the 2018 Congress, on the presentation to the IIC Office of receipts by and for the grant recipient for travel and accommodation costs in relation to their the grant recipient’s participation at the 2018 IIC Congress that are equal to or greater in value than the US$1,000 (subject to confirmation) grant sum available.

Criteria for selection included:

• The current involvement of the applicant in conservation
• The relevance of the Congress theme to her/his current work
• The potential benefit to her/his career
• The potential benefit to conservation of cultural heritage in her/his country.

After the Congress

Following 2018 Congress, successful applicants are required to submit a short report of their participation at Congress to IIC. A copy of this report will then be sent on to the funding body such as Tru Vue , as well as retained by IIC. We would also like to work with participants to adapt reports to feature in future issues of News in Conservation.