ESERA Travel Grants 2026

ESERA is offering travel grants of up to 1.000 euros for early career researchers in the field of research on science education. The grants are for visits abroad to meet researchers with expertise relevant to applicants’ research. The next call (for visits in 2027) opens by October, 2026, and closes in mid-January 2027.

For 2026, the executive board received 35 applications. Applications were evaluated focusing on:

• need for financial support to carry out the visit,
• benefit of the visit for the professional development of the awardee, 
• feasibility of the anticipated outcomes of the visit.

The board also worked to ensure a broad geographical spread of home and host countries. All applicants were notified about the results in the end of January, 2026.

The grantees for Travel Grants 2026 are:

• Ye Cao (Hainan Normal University, China)
• Saul Casalone (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Luis Delgado Mayoral (University of Almería, Spain)
• Maya Umi Hajar (Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia)
• Tim Hartelt (University of Kassel, Germany)
• Tasneem Mohammed (Arizona State University, United States)
• Eduarda Pinheiro (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil)
• Nadia Qureshi (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Jingwen Song (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
• Julien-Pooya Weihs (University of Bergen, Norway)