Nature Publishing Group (NPG) supports the broadest participation of qualified scientists in scientific conferences. To forward this goal NPG established the NPG Awards to help assuage one of the factors that prevents conferees from various countries with developing economies from attending the Gordon Research Conferences.

Awards of up to $1,500.00 are made to support participants who meet the eligibility criteria. Only those who meet these requirements may be nominated for support, which is limited and available on a first-come first-served basis.

Prospective award recipients must be accepted to a Gordon Research Conference by the Chair in order to be eligible. Scientists, post-docs and trainees who are a citizen of, and work in developing nations are eligible for support. Please see the list of nations/regions that are NOT eligible. If the applicant resides and works in any other nation/area, they ARE eligible. Citizenship does not need to be from the country in which the applicant is working, but neither the country of citizenship nor the country of work can be on this list.

Conference Chairs can only nominate a candidate to receive funding through the NPG Awards Program by submitting a completed nomination form. Click here to complete and submit a form.

• Andorra
• Aruba
• Australia
• Austria
• Bahamas, The
• Bahrain
• Belgium
• Bermuda
• Brunei
• Canada
• Cayman Islands
• Channel Islands
• Cyprus
• Denmark
• Faeroe Islands
• Finland
• France
• French Polynesia
• Germany
• Greece
• Greenland
• Guam
• Hong Kong, China
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Korea, Rep
• Kuwait
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Macao, China
• Malta
• Monaco
• Netherlands
• Netherlands Antilles
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Qatar
• San Marino
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom

In 2007 NPG awards were made to 26 participants from Kenya, Venezuela, Brazil, India, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, China, Poland, Mexico, Zambia and Romania. They attended 21 different conferences in many areas, such as neurotrophic factors, atomic physics, plant metabolic engineering and computer-aided drug design.

Awardees in 2006 were from the following countries: Argentina, Chile, China, Hungary, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. There were 31 recipients in total. They attended conferences in many areas, including salt tolerance in plants, granular fluid flow, catalysis, rock deformation, and 3-D electron microscopy.