In my country and due to the present economic situation, we have problems with participation and attendance at conferences. Fees are often too expensive without mentioning travel and accommodation costs. Our research structures are no longer able to finance us. As a mentor I can not find conferences for my students which are either good and affordable. So my questions are:
- do you know of any good IT , education and/or computer science conferences that are not too expensive or that offer a special reduced fees for students?
-do you know organizations that can finance students from developing countries?
Thank you all.
Amina Bouraoui
Arranging conference is the business with the intellectual people without risk and harms. So, try to never attend in the seminar , conferences without sponsor. Few days back a conference committee from Sri Lanka sent me a mail for my permission to join there as the keynote speaker. I agreed and the following week , they mailed me for a donation of $1500 ! I didn't reply at all. So, be careful !!!
Dear Amina Bouraoui
I have recently attended a conference named Connecting Asia, which they publish your article either Scopus or ISI indexed journals.
As you mentioned traveling cost, as for my experience most of the conference do not require your physical presence. They even allow to present through Skype but its always good to attend physically. It was just an option, the conference cost was around $400+
For your information, you can also check the conferences happening in specific countries from following website.
https://www.allconferencealerts.com/
Hope it helps.
Hello
Amina I am from Venezuela, studing my doctorate in Spain. Never I have seen any help, I feel that nobady care about us.
Best regards
Ingrid
Faisal is the magazine free or we have to pay?
Ingrid
Dear Amina Bouraoui ,
i think you are in Tunisia, so if we find cheap conference may be far from your country, but i have another offer for your students, i send you by message.
Registration fees at conferences
Not sure is there any research conference being organized as virtual research conference in academia world? Meaning set date(s) & times for all the presentation topics. During a particular time slot, interested attendees & presenter will join the specific session virtually using their computers to view the presentation & perform Q&A virtually. Also all the conference proceedings / papers can be downloaded as soft-copy after participants / presenters had registered onto a specific website. Think this approach can reduce registration fees at conferences e.g. conference venue costs, refreshment costs, traveling costs, hotel accommodation costs, printing costs etc. can be minimized. Moreover, other benefits include the attendees can download / replay other recorded video / presentation sessions that s/he has missed while attending other session at the same time. This approach of virtual conference is getting more common in commercial world especially in ICT related conferences etc. However, disadvantages of this virtual research conference include less opportunity to ask more questions, no face to face interactions / networking with other researchers etc.
You can also refer to the following RG link about virtual presentation in conference:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_you_with_a_virtual_presentation_in_a_conference
Dear Amina,
In Brazil we have the same problem, the congress fees are expensive and we do not always have incentives for these events. The development agencies can not attend to all researchers and students
Please visit the following IAER conference sites, IAER provides CIC Funding for deserving authors towards registration fees:
http://iccece19.theiaer.org
http://icetic19.theiaer.org
If it is a group of students to attend, you may write to them for special consideration.
Thanks to all those who answered, those who proposed links and those who offered valuable help and valuable answers.
Amina
It is the problem of all researchers and students.
The alone existing mean, but not yet generalized, is to present by visio-conference, this will allow you to economize the airline ticket and accommodation, and as it said above you have to pay the fees.
I thing that, as you are in Francophone country the AUF can do something for you.
Hakima
Amina Bouraoui
Arranging conference is the business with the intellectual people without risk and harms. So, try to never attend in the seminar , conferences without sponsor. Few days back a conference committee from Sri Lanka sent me a mail for my permission to join there as the keynote speaker. I agreed and the following week , they mailed me for a donation of $1500 ! I didn't reply at all. So, be careful !!!
I agree with Marcelo ,Peter Breuer and all other colleagues that registration fees are expensive.
Dear Md Zafar Alam Bhuiyan , Thank you for warning us. I'm aware of such "predators". It is not limited to conferences. I received some time ago a proposition to participate to a book about Android Developing, and as I visited the link given in the mail I had to register to access information. They invite you to fill a form with the proposed title, an abstract, etc. Then I received another mail with the fees which were of 1400 GBP (about 1500 euros). I ignored them, but they keep nagging me to complete my proposition, even though I sent a mail to say that I will not be able to pay.
You have to ask the conference organizers (better in a petition with several signatures) to lower fees for students. The organizers can usually find sponsors to cover some costs.
Directly consult with conference organizers for discount. But always remember that majority of conferences nowadays are being organized only for business purpose.
You might consider the ICVL conference for education and e-learning, no participation fee: http://c3.icvl.eu/
Many ACM conferences have lower prices for students and some of them provide a limited number of travel scholarships to support a few students. Please find below a few examples that I'm aware of, but there should be other similar opportunities:
- For instance, SIGACCESS supports a few people every year (http://www.sigaccess.org/awards/sigaccess-scholarship/) to attend ASSETS (The ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility).
- The Web for All Conference (W4A) usually provides support for students with papers accepted (http://www.w4a.info/2019/students/intuit-student-grants/).
- SIGCHI also has travel grants to support students attending their conferences: https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/sigchi-student-travel-grant/.
- Also, many conferences provide some support to (PhD) students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium, which may be another good alternative.
Joao
I may add that: Is there conferences accept to publish papers (that has been accepted for publication after peer reviewing) without the necessity to attend the conference ? This will be of a great help instead of the obligatory to attend the conference.
A solution is contacting the conference authorities and asking a discount for group attendance.
There are many conferences that can wave out the fees, if you are participating from any third world country. Other Solution is to contact your local University faculty or your project supervisor to sponsor you for the conference. Mostly University conferences wave out the fees and sponsors your travelling and living if you are presenting your research paper as an speaker.
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