IATEFL BESIG Conference Scholarship

The aim of the BESIG Conference Scholarships, funded by BESIG and Cambridge ESOL, is to enable participants who so far have never been to a BESIG conference or have only taken part in local events to attend the annual international BESIG conference (20-22 November 2009 in Poznan/Poland).

The aim of the BESIG Conference Scholarships, funded by BESIG and Cambridge ESOL, is to enable participants who so far have never been to a BESIG conference or have only taken part in local events to attend the annual international BESIG conference (20-22 November 2009 in Poznan/Poland).

It is not necessary to be a member of IATEFL to apply for these scholarships.

Five scholarships of £650 will be awarded to help towards travel expenses, accommodation & meals. One of these will be topped up through the generosity of Cambridge ESOL to help towards the costs of teachers living beyond the "cheap flights" area of the world. The conference fee will be covered in addition, for all five.

No one can be awarded the scholarship more than once. If a winner has been unable to pick up the scholarship for reasons beyond his/her control and received an IATEFL BESIG subscription instead, this also applies.

To qualify applicants must:

• be practising teachers of Business English in any area of education, state or private sector
• have not attended the annual BESIG conference before
• be unable to finance such a trip wholly from their own resources

To be considered applicants are asked to:

• send a brief Curriculum Vitae plus a passport size photograph
• send a detailed description of their background in Business English and how attending the BESIG conference will benefit them, with specific reference to their work, study or research (not less than 400-500 words!).
• send a presentation proposal covering the overall thematic context of the event to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or enter the same information here by 31 July 2009 at the latest. Successful applications will receive notice by 09 August 2009. Please, ensure that this important message reaches you and you can respond to it within a reasonable time frame (= not more than 1 week later!).

After the conference the successful applicants will be asked to write a report of their experiences and their usefulness for their local teaching context (for deadline liaise with This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for possible publication in the BESIG Newsletter.