The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is Europe’s leading organisation supporting Earth, planetary, and space science researchers. As a non-profit, we help over 20,000 researchers connect, discuss and share their work through meetings, publications and events, but do you know all the ways EGU has funding and opportunities that can support you?
Travel support!
EGU has many foms of travel support to help you attend the annual EGU General Assembly in Vienna, and online, including:
- Roland Schlich Travel Support is available to presenting authors who are Early Career Scientists.
- Early Career Scientists Travel Support is available to Early Career Scientists who wish to attend the meeting.
- Established Scientist’s Travel Support is available to a very limited number of established scientists from low-, lower-middle, and upper-middle income countries (as determined by the World Bank).
- Tomasin Support is available to Early Career Scientists working in the Ocean Sciences.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Participation Support!
For those who face specific financial challenges unrelated to their geographical location, including care-giving, disability or special needs, and career transitions, EGU also offers a special support scheme. Support includes:
- Registration fee waivers: For both onsite or virtual waivers, also for caregivers to attend onsite.
- Travel Support: Travel expenses for caregivers or dependant children; expenses for transporting and/or hiring necessary medical equipment.
- Home-Help Support: to hire home-help to assist in caring for a dependent during the meeting.
- Accommodation Support: Financial assistance for accessible or specialized accommodation required.
- Additional Childcare Support: Subsidies for childcare services at the conference venue or in the participant’s home location.
- Accessibility Support: Financial support for the purchase or rental of assistive technology or equipment necessary to facilitate participation.
Emergency support fund!
Any researcher in the field of Earth, planetary and space sciences from a country, region or community identified by the UNHCR’s emergency declarations protocol is automatically eligible to access funding and logistical support from EGU. Support is available for:
- Publications: standard waiver of the article processing charge
- General Assembly: waiver of registration fee, with optional extension of abstract submission deadline without financial penalty
- Membership of EGU: one year’s complimentary membership to grant access to award and medal nominations, funding schemes and other EGU membership benefits
Topical events and training schools!
EGU provides funding of between €6000-€8000 to support access for Early Career Scientists to a range of member-run, subject-specific conferences and summer schools. These include:
- Galileo conferences which address well-focused, cutting-edge topics at the frontier of geosciences research
- Seven subject-specific conference series’ that are run on an annual or bi-annual basis
- 15-20 training schools (sometimes called summer schools) per year, where EGU supports a diverse range of training schools, which offer Early Career Scientists specialist training opportunities that they normally don’t have access to at their home institutions
Outreach and science communication funding!
Looking for ways to get started in outreach, public engagement or science communication? Want to expand your science journalism work with funding for a special project? EGU can help!
- Public Engagement Grants: four grants of up to €2000 to support innovative outreach projects that aim to raise awareness of geosciences outside the scientific community.
- Geoscience Days: €10,000 to run a day of Geoscience in your own country, in your own language!
- Science Journalism Fellowships: €5000 to enable reporters to follow scientists on location to report on ongoing research in the Earth, planetary or space sciences.
GIFT: Geoscience Education For Teachers!
If you are a teacher or educator who teaches about subjects related to any aspect of the Earth, planetary or space sciences, why not apply for the GIFT programme!
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- Annual workshops run online and in Vienna, Austria, connected to the General Assembly, which provide hands-on practical training for educators who teach aspects of geoscience in their classrooms
- Provide collaborative, community environments for teachers to share best practice and ask advice
- Teachers can apply to attend onsite in Vienna, and are given financial support to cover the cost of travel and accommodation, as well as free access to the training
- All attendees gain a certificate of attendance whether they participate online or in-person
AND Education funding for teachers and educators!
- Tertiary Education in Geoscience teaching materials award: funding for 10 grants of up to €750 to develop geoscience teaching materials on any relevant topic, including laboratory or field work
- Field schools for Teachers and Geoscience Education Events grants: supporting events specifically targeted at training teachers and educators, run internationally
- Distinguished Lecturer series: up to €1400 funding available to invite distinguished speakers who have participated in the EGU General Assembly to present at international institutions
- Early Career Scientist Education Fellowship: €2500 available to an Eary Career Scientist to explore a topic focused on teaching Earth, planetary and space sciences
Open publishing!
EGU uses a fully interactive, publicly peer-reviewed publishing process, that takes scientific publishing beyond open access and into a transparent, and community focused approach to sharing new research for all 20 of our journals.
- All articles published by an EGU journal are available for free to the reader with no paywall or restrictions
- The full review process as well as preprints of the work are archived and receive a digital object identifier (DOI) to ensure full transparency and citability
- Our journals are community-driven, run by thousands of volunteer editors and reviewers, with technical support for our not-for-profit publications provided by our publishing partner, Copernicus
Publications fee waivers!
EGU publications offer an extensive range of article processing charges (APCs) for all 20 of our interactive, open-access publications. These include:
- EGU members receive 10% discount
- Authors affiliated in European economically disadvantaged (EED) countries will automatically receive a 50% discount
- Authors with affiliations in countries classified by Research4Life in Groups A and B, will receive a full waiver
- Authors who fall outside these groups can still apply for a full or partial waiver at EGU’s discretion
- Several institutions have agreements to cover APCs in our journals; the full list is available on journal pages
Peer review training!
- This free training, available to EGU members, is designed to promote hands-on experience via interactive sessions, in which participants can review real manuscripts submitted to the EGU Journals with the guidance of EGU editors
- During the three sessions of the training, participants gain experience in completing review reports that can later be added to EGUsphere, EGU’s interactive publicly peer-reviewed platform, and count as official reviews
- Participants who successfully complete the training are added to the Copernicus Referee Database and start to receive invitations to review for EGU journals
- Run annually between September-October
And much more on our website!
Download our full support guide with links here: EGU funding and support guide 2026
