Student Travel & Workshop Support

The Organizing Committee of CDC 2025 is pleased to announce Student Travel & Workshop Support, made available by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). 

The travel support funds are meant to enhance the chances of promising students to attend CDC 2025, present their papers, and become more integrated into the CSS scientific community. The limited amount of funds available is not reimbursed to the student awardees, but is applied in advance by the conference organizers to cover at least partial lodging expenses; please click here for more information about the Travel Support Program. The student (or advisor) will be responsible for any other costs that are not covered, including conference registration.

The workshop support funds are meant to enhance the learning and career development of IEEE CSS Student Members. The funds will cover partial lodging expenses to facilitate workshop attendance. The student (or advisor) will be responsible for any other costs that are not covered, including workshop registration. Workshop attendance is required. Note that workshops are held the day before the first day of the conference. For more information about the CDC 2025 Workshops please click here and about the Workshop Support Program click here.

 
NOTE: Awarded students will be given the possibility of adding one guest to their room reservation at a small additional cost. If awarded, students who choose this option will be responsible for paying the additional cost directly at the hotel (more details will be provided with the award notification). There is no need to indicate the preference with respect to the number of guests during the application, as this is not part of the selection criteria.
 

To be eligible for either program, an applicant must be a student member of both IEEE and CSS at the time of the conference registration. Note that CSS stands for the Control Systems Society, and membership requires a relatively small extra cost in addition to the IEEE Membership. Please click here for the details and benefits of IEEE CSS Student membership. Each applicant for travel support:

1. must be an author or co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at CDC 2025
2. must register at the conference (More details on registration deadlines will be provided with the award notification. Please follow the instructions therein.)
3. must present a paper

In case the number of applicants for travel support exceeds the budget, additional criteria will be used to make a selection among the applicants. These additional criteria, in decreasing order of importance, prefer applicants who will present more than one paper at the conference, have been student members of the CSS for one, two, or more years, and can demonstrate active participation in CSS. In case the number of applicants for workshop support exceeds the budget, the support will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. In addition, the selection committee may decide to limit awards where more than one presenter from the same institution would otherwise be offered an award to attend the same conference.