Educational grants for ophthalmologists-in-training from East European countries
The Council of SOE offers Applications for the SOE Educational Grant 2009 are opened from May 2008 until September 2008. Only applications which have been submitted via our website will be considered. |
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At present, the Grant is fixed at 1,000 euro and it is envisaged that the successful applicants will spend a minimum of 4 – 6 weeks observing clinical work in a West European Centre. The SOE Council has compiled a list of Centres which accept observers and of the subspecialties they offer.
The number of Educational Grants is limited to 70 per year and 2 or 3 applicants from each East European country (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia).
Please note that you should not contact the clinic or hospital you would like to visit while applying for the grant. We will only ask you to contact the clinics or hospital if you have been selected for the SOE Educational Grant, in which case we will give you further information.
Deadline for submitting your application for the SOE 2009 Educational Grant is 30 September 2008. The committee will then review all applications and all applicants will be contacted by November 2008.
TO APPLY FOR THE SOE GRANT 2009, CLICK HERE.
Click here to see a list of Ophthalmic Centres in Western Europe (PDF)
Further information is available from
SOE Secretariat
287 avenue Louise, 2nd floor
1050 Brussels
Belgium
E-mail: secretariat@soevision.org