International commission for acoutics

10. Report of Ad Hoc Committee on Conference Grants

The following written report was submitted by Nelson.
The Young Scientist Conference Attendance Grant Scheme was successfully initiated prior to the 17^th ICA to be held in Rome from 2-7 September 2001. The final details of the scheme are described in the attached document. As a result of advertising this scheme, there were 40 applications for support from young scientist in a wide range of countries. Full details of the applicants are also attached.
Each of the applications consisted of a two-page paper and was graded by all members of the Conference Grants Sub-Committee (consisting of Nelson, Yoon, Blauert, and Gerges). The awards were then distributed in accordance to the following criteria:

1. 
   The highest graded three papers from “developing countries” were awarded grants of 1000 US Dollars.
   
2. 
   A further 14 grants of 500 US Dollars were awarded to the next highest graded applicants, with a maximum of two grants awarded per country.
   
3. 
   In categorizing the counties, it was assumed that Eastern European countries were “developing”. This specifically included Russia, Romania, Czech Republic, and Poland.
   
4. 
   Finally, confirmation was sought that the successful applicants were under 35 years of age for those cases in which this was not made clear in the application.
   

Finally, it was noted that the scheme was implemented by Alippi.