Applications are now open for the 2024 Rainer Voegeli Travel Grant (RVTG), open to students or young scientists (less than 35 years old) from  Specified Developing Countries as listed by the UN’s Human Development Index (HDI).

The winner of the travel grant will present their work as a Poster presentation at the 2024 IFSCC Congress in Iguazu Falls, Brazil. The award will cover round-trip coach/economy class travel to Iguazu Falls, Congress registration fees and four nights at a hotel.

• Membership of an IFSCC Member Society is not a requirement

While you may not be eligible yourself perhaps you know, or know of others who would qualify, so please forward this information to them.

How can a student or young scientist apply for the 2024 Rainer Voegeli Travel Grant?
• Be a national of, and live in, one of the Specified Developing Countries
(Human Development Index < 0.646, according to worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country)
• Submit an abstract to rvtgrant@swissscc.ch no later than the deadline 30 June 2024
• Send a CV, a copy of your passport (or other national ID document) and a copy of the accepted abstract by 31 July 2024 to the SWISS SCC (Swiss Society of Cosmetic Chemists)at rvtgrant@swissscc.ch
The subject line should read ‘2024 Travel Grant submission’.
The final decision on the award winner will be made by the board of the Swiss Society of Cosmetic Chemists, together with Rainer Voegeli.

The Rainer Voegeli Travel Grant was introduced in 2017, funded initially with prize money won by Rainer Voegeli at the IFSCC 2016 Congress. This covered the 2017 and 2018 awards, with Rainer’s employer, dsm-firmenich, funding this grant into the future. The grant is jointly administered by the Swiss Society and dsm-firmenich.

• Applicants must be less than 35 years old on the day they apply for this award
• Specified Developing Countries (Human Development Index < 0.646, according to worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country)

PREVIOUS RVTG WINNERS 2023 – PRINCIA ANDRIATAHINA (MADAGASCAR) Paper Epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of alopecia areata in children in the dermatology department of the University Hospital Befelatanana, Antananarivo, Madagascar The second RVTG winner from Madagascar 2021 – GÉRAUD AZEHOUN PAZOU (BENIN) Paper Automatic detection of skin phototypes based on features extraction from face images and neural networks “The possibility of winning the award encouraged me to apply.” 2019 – FANDRESENA ARILALA SENDRASOA (MADAGASCAR) Paper Excellent response of alopecia totalis to hydroxychloroquine: report of two paediatric cases and quality of life assessment in patients with alopecia areata in Antananarivo, Madagascar “The main reason I decided to enter for this award was so that we could proudly show in the world how much the field of dermatology had improved in Madagascar.” 2018 – MANDEEP DUTTA JOSHI (NEPAL)  Paper Impact of decorative cosmetics: How the community patient responses to quality of life in developing country “A golden opportunity to learn new innovative research and findings from IFSCC that will be useful in our professional career” 2017 – ADAMA SANGARE (SENEGAL) Paper Xylopia aethiopica, a unique representative of the African cosmetopeae “This is the perfect occasion to exchange our visions of cosmetic science.”