EUBS – Travel Grant and Awards

EUBS - Travel Grants and Awards

Travel Grants

To encourage young people to attend the meeting, EUBS allocates up to a maximum of 2.500 Euro to students as travel grants to the Society’s Annual Meetings. The following conditions apply:

The applicant shall be registered as a full-time university student in a relevant field.
The applicant shall be working towards a scientific degree with relevance to diving or hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
The applicant shall submit an abstract to that year’s annual meeting, which must be accepted for presentation, and submit a paper of their presentation to the DHM Editor within the current calendar year. This paper will be peer reviewed for consideration of publication in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. Although publication cannot be guaranteed, the editors of DHM will assist in every way they can. Acceptance for publication in DHM is not a prerequisite for the award of a Travel Grant.
Oral and poster presentations will be equally acceptable.
The number of students receiving a travel grant may vary from one year to another, depending on number of applicants.
The absolute size of each individual travel grant may vary according to actual size of travel expenses, but the relative amount, i.e. per cent of travel cost on economy class, ill be the same for all recipients in one particular year. The maximum amount attributed is 800 Euros per applicant. This amount is destined for travel costs only (flight + hotel), not e.g. poster printing.
The deadline for the submission of applications is July 31st, after notification of acceptance of the submitted abstract. The application must include:
1. A statement from the student’s supervisor confirming that the student is registered as a full time university student in a relevant field and is currently working towards a scientific degree.
2. An abstract submitted for presentation in the meeting.
3. A detailed budget on travel expenses to the meeting. The travel should be as economical as possible.

9. Evaluation of applications and selection of recipients will be performed by a committee consisting of two members of the local Scientific Committee of the meeting, plus one member of the EUBS Executive Committee. Applicants will be notified before August 15th for the decision.

Arne Zetterstrom Award and Patrick Musimu Award

Arne Zetterström (1917 – 7 August 1945) is best known for his research with the breathing mixture hydrox for the Swedish Navy. Zetterström first described the use of hydrogen as a breathing gas in 1943. From 1943 to 1944, a total of six ocean dives were made utilising this mixture with the deepest to 160 metres (96% hydrogen and 4% oxygen). On 7 August 1945 Zetterström experienced technical problems diving from HSwMS Belos. His support divers misread his signals and this was followed by a rapid ascent that resulted in severe decompression sickness and hypoxia. In commemoration of this pioneer in diving physiology, EUBS awards a prize at each year’s Annual Scientific Meeting for “Best Poster Presentation”. The prize consists of a free registration for the next Annual Scientific Meeting, to be claimed by one of the authors of the winning poster. All posters automatically participate in the competition.

In commemoration of this pioneer in diving physiology, EUBS awards a prize at each year’s Annual Scientific Meeting for “Best Poster Presentation“. The prize consists of a free registration for the next Annual Scientific Meeting, to be claimed by one of the authors of the winning poster. All posters automatically participate in the competition.

Patrick Musimu (12 October 1970 – 21 July 2011) was a Belgian physiotherapist and freediver. He was born in Kinshasa, Zaire. On 30 June 2005, he beat the previous “No Limits” world record in freediving by almost 40 meters by diving to 209 meters. Following his request, this dive was done without the supervision of the International Association for Freediving agency, from which Musimu dissociated since 2002. According to him, extreme deep freediving should not be considered as a sport but as an adventure. Musimu began diving in 1999 at the age of 28, intrigued by what he called “dolphin-men”. His secret lay in years of training and preparation, but special attention should be given to his ear clearing technique: instead of equalizing his ears by the regular maneuvers, he flooded his air spaces (sinus and middle ears) with seawater before reaching the depth where ordinary equalization would become hard. On 21 July 2011 Musimu died while pool training alone in Brussels, Belgium.

The Belgian Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, im memory of Musimu, awards a prize for the “Best Presentation or Poster on Apnea Diving“, consisting also of a free registration to the following EUBS Annual Scientific Meeting.