NTCIR-7 Meeting Travel Support

Travel support is available for Overseas Active Task Participants. Please read the following information and apply. We are looking forward to see you at NTCIR-7 Meeting in Tokyo!

Application of Travel support has been closed.

TRAVEL SUPPORT PROGRAM reimburses:

Fee for a round-trip economy class flight ticket.
Please arrange and purchase a flight ticket by yourself, and then apply for travel support with photocopies of the receipt and the ticket.
Please retain the original copy of the receipt and the boarding pass stub for reimbursement.
If you have any problem with your itinerary, please consult ntc-support before purchase your ticket.
Please search the least expensive ticket.

WHO CAN APPLY FOR THE PROGRAM?

You must a member of an active task participating group that submitted the results.
You must present a material at the workshop meeting either as an oral presentation or as a digital poster.
You are from non-profit organization.

Precedence will be given to students and younger researchers.

In summary::

Travel costs (basically fee for a round-trip discounted economy class flight ticket) up to a reasonable limit will be reimbursed at the discretion of the travel support committee. The committee has a list of estimated ceilings on reimbursement from each region of the globe.
Reimbursement is in CASH in Japanese Yen given out at the conference site.
Please search for the LEAST EXPENSIVE flight, so that larger number of applicants will be supported by this program.
ECONOMY class only
Funds are limited so we CAN NOT GUARANTEE full reimbursement of costs.
Please prepare photocopies or PDF of receipt and ticket for the application and retain the origianl copy of the receipt and the boarding pass stub for reimbursement.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Oct 10, 2008: Application deadline. (Japan time)
Oct 24, 2008: Notification of approval
Dec 16-19 2008: NTCIR-7 Meeting, NII, Tokyo, Japan

INQUIRY AND APPLICATION:

NTCIR Project Office
Ms. Miho Sugimoto
Email: ntc-support
Fax for sending copy of ticket and receipt: +81-3-4212-2751

Application form for the NTCIR Travel Support Program for Overseas Participants

We are sorry for this but the undergraduate students are not included in this program.