Program #1 – Closed
Call Opening: December 12th, 2025
Submissions Deadline: January 23rd, 2026 (11:59pm)
Eligibility Conference Period: February 1st to July 31st, 2026
PrograM #2 – Closed
Call Opening: May 18th, 2026
Submissions Deadline: June 22nd, 2026 (11:59pm)
Eligibility Conference Period: August 1st 2026 to January 31st, 2027
Program Overview
This Meeting Travel Award Program is designed to support the dissemination of your research related to pain or related disciplines. The Quebec Pain Research Network (QPRN) offers a Meeting Ttravel award Award program to help you participate in conferences, gain confidence, and increase your visibility.
Attending a conference will help you strengthen and diversify your communication skills by learning to tailor your message effectively and present key concepts and findings in a clear, accessible, and engaging way. Conferences also offer valuable opportunities to expand your professional network and develop your ability to respond concisely and effectively to audience questions.
The program provides support for:
- Presenting a scientific poster at a conference (in person and online), or
- Giving a talk at a conference (in person o online)
The maximum amount awarded is $1,000. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, meals, registration fees, infographic design, and poster printing.
Program Restrictions
- Maximum of 6 applications per research team per year;
- Maximum of 1 application per student per year, except during the year of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Congress, when students may submit one application for the IASP Congress and one for another conference.
Eligibility criteria
- Being affiliated with a Quebec university and conducting research in a field related to pain;
- Being supervised by a regular member of the Quebec Pain Research Network;
- Being an active member of the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI) prior to the competition’s opening.
Reimbursement
The QPRN will make an inter-institutional transfer to the recipient’s research director, once official notification of the results has been received. If several members of the same laboratory are recipients, a single transfer combining all the amounts awarded will be made to the research director. Each recipient will then be able to submit a claim to his or her institution for reimbursement of expenses.
