ISCHE Travel Fund

ISCHE Travel Fund

Since 2017, ISCHE devotes some of the membership revenue to an ISCHE Travel Fund for the annual conference. These travel grants are for ISCHE members* who are doctoral students and early career researchers (up to 5 years post-PhD) without full-time faculty appointments. Particular preference will be given to applicants who are based in low-GDP countries**.

Application procedure 2026: Applicants must have their conference paper accepted and submit the following documents to with the subject line “ECR travel fund request” until Thursday 2 April 2026:

  • Completed Travel Fund request form in one of ISCHE languages (English, French, German, Portuguese or Spanish) [available here]
  • Evidence of doctoral student or early-career status (student card, dissertation certificate)
  • Brief CV (maximum 2 pages) written in one of the above-mentioned languages.

Incomplete applications will not be considered and previous recipients of the travel fund are not eligible.

Notification procedure: The Travel Fund Committee*** receives the applications and ranks them according to the information submitted. With approval of the Travel Fund Committee, the chair will then decide on both the applicants who will be granted a travel bursary and a waiting list, until Tuesday 14 April 2026.

Applications should comply with the following criteria:

  1. In terms of overall admission, applications should be complete to be subject to review.
  2. Only the applications submitted by students who are enrolled in doctoral programs will be admitted and revised.
  3. Only the applications submitted by researchers who were awarded a doctorate in the last five years will be admitted and revised.

The deadline for acceptance of the award is set on Thursday 23 April 2026. Awards not accepted before the said deadline will be offered to the next candidate on the waiting list. Please note that early bird registration will end on 8 May 2026, reason why we urge you to respect this deadline and to respond as soon as possible.

Proof of attendance: The travel grant is given after proof of attendance at the conference. For this reason, the recipients will receive a form, which must be filled out, signed and given to the ISCHE Secretary (Helen Proctor) during the conference.

The travel fund is granted for in-person participation only. If recipients can no longer attend the conference in-person, the Travel Fund Committee recommends that they deliver their papers online, but the travel fund can no longer be granted.

*For information on how to become a member, please see https://www.ische.org/join-ische/

**Please note that the crucial factor for the Low-GDP status is not the country of origin but the country of the institutional affiliation. The list of low-GDP countries includes:

  • African countries
  • Asian countries (with following exceptions: Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong SAR, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Macau SAR, Qatar, Singapore, UAE)
  • Latin American countries (exception: Bahamas)
  • and the following countries in wider Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.

***2026 Travel Fund Committee: Luis Grosso Correia (chair), Lajos Somogyvári & Chelsea Rodriguez

ISCHE Travel Fund recipients

ISCHE 46 “Teachers and Teaching. History on the move.” – Lille, France, 8 – 11 July 2025

  • Francesco Carloni
  • Jing Huang
  • Maria Grams
  • Ransford Tei
  • Rejane Pereira Correia
  • Ying Zhou

ISCHE 45 “(De)Coloniality and Diversity in the Histories of Education” – Natal, Brazil, 18 – 21 August 2024

  • Aksoy Seyma
  • Dayana Murgia
  • Fatima Nascimento
  • Francesco Carloni
  • Heverton Reis
  • Mayra Mugnaini
  • Pamela Reisin
  • Pi Chengjie

ISCHE 44 “Histories of Education and Reform: Traditions, Tensions and Transitions” – Budapest, Hungary, 18 – 21 July 2023

  • Mohammad Abul Fateh
  • Arturo Benedicto Medina
  • Sandra Sylvia de Santana Ziegler

ISCHE 43 “Histories of Educational Technologies: Cultural and Social Dimensions of Pedagogical Objects” – Milan, Italy, 31 August – 3 September 2022

  • Lucila da Silva
  • Krishna Roy

ISCHE 41 “Spaces and Places of Education” – Porto, Portugal, 17 – 20 July 2019

  • Adrián Martín Azrak
  • Andrés Eduardo Garcia Lainez
  • Fátima Aparecida do Nascimento
  • Iván Pablo Orbuch
  • John J. Cárdenas-Herrera
  • Rafaela Silva Rabelo
  • Sara Black
  • Meng Wang
  • Edgleide de Oliveira Clemente da Silva

ISCHE 40 “Education and Nature” – Berlin, Germany, August 29-September 1, 2018

  • Catriona Delaney
  • Edgleide Clemente da Silva
  • Maria Williams
  • Meng Weng
  • Sara Legrand Jacques
  • Sousthene Meboma

ISCHE 39 “Education and Emancipation” – Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18-21, 2017

  • Alba María Gómez Sánchez
  • Alejandro Ortiz
  • Fabienne Serina Karsky
  • Fabrício Valentim
  • Franciele Ruiz
  • Julieta Briseno
  • Nicholas Krysczka
  • Sandra Herrera Restrepo
  • Tatiana Ermel
  • Victoria Almiron