The Joint APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme (ATAP) is open to currently active early career physicists (within 10 years of their PhD), with good scientific track records, who are  nationals of developing countries and who are currently studying or working in the same or another developing country.  The fellowship allows holders to return to their PhD awarding institution in Europe or North America. The period of the stay is 2 months. The Travel Award Fellowship is USD 5,000, and will be used to cover travel and a living allowance

If you fulfill the above criteria, do not hesitate: Join the ATAP programme!

Details on how to apply can be found here.
The deadline for applications is 31^st March 2023.

The ICTP, based in Trieste, Italy, has established a programme specifically designed for wider collaboration with external partners: The International Training and Research (INTR) Programme. INTR provides the opportunity for active early career scientists from developing countries to reinforce, renew, or in extraordinary cases, create scientific collaborations by providing grants for short-term research visits to participating laboratories in all of Europe and North America.

A unique feature of INTR is that it allows multiple stakeholders to join forces with ICTP to ensure the success of these visits. In cooperation with the APS and the EPS, a dedicated specialised framework has been created to facilitate the return of early career scientists to the universities and research centres where they obtained their Ph.D., known as the Joint APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme. This programme enables selected recipients from developing countries to return to the laboratories of institution where they obtained their PhD and to use laboratory facilities which may not be available in their home country. This strengthens the recipients’ opportunities to conduct world-class research and build their list of publications.  In addition, through ICTP, the recipients are trained in writing grant proposals which enables them to access to research opportunities after returning to their home laboratories.

The American Physical Society (APS) the European Physical Society (EPS) and the  International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are pleased to announce the second edition of the Joint APS - ICTP - EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme as part of their activities to support the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development in 2022.

The programme, which began as a three-year pilot in 2022, is currently running its second edition. In 2023 the APS Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) joined the programme as a fourth sponsor. The ICTP, the APS, the EPS, and the FECS have pledged to contribute USD 5,000 each, to fund up to 4 travel grants in 2023.