ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance at Research Conferences

Who can apply: Current students only. The FAQ states you may apply as many times as you want ‘as long as you identify as a female student’, so the scheme is gender-restricted, and it states that recent graduates who are no longer students cannot apply. This is a one-time award and past recipients are ineligible. The Grace Hopper… What is funded: Travel support to attend any computer science research conference, ACM-affiliated or not: up to USD 600 for intra-continental travel and up to USD 1,200 for intercontinental travel. Presenting a paper is not required. Where the conference belongs to one of eighteen named ACM special interest groups, including SIGHPC… Deadline: 15 October 2026, for conferences held 1 December 2026 to 30 January 2027. The funder does not state a timezone for this deadline, so check the official page for the exact cut-off time. Round: Conferences held 1 December 2026 to 30 January 2027.

Read the full call and apply on the official page: ACM-W (Association for Computing Machinery, Women in Computing), official page.

Who can apply

• Current students only. The FAQ states you may apply as many times as you want 'as long as you identify as a female student', so the scheme is gender-restricted, and it states that recent graduates who are no longer students cannot apply. This is a one-time award and past recipients are ineligible. The Grace Hopper Celebration and the Richard Tapia Celebration are excluded because they run their own scholarship programmes. No paid ACM membership is required. Applications are evaluated in six groups a year, and only the round closing 15 October 2026 carries an explicit year on the page.

Stage dates

Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.

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