12 of 29 - the IPVS made their attendance at the world congress possible. From left to right: Paolo Bennemann (Venezuela), Do Ngoc Thuy (Vietnam), Kampon Kaekot (Thailand), Oneyda Ramirez (Venezuela), Javier Cappuccio (Argentinia), Luciane Shinya (Brazil), Christoph Pahlitzsch (IPVS secretary), Renata Paixo (Brazil), Jean Paul Cano (Venezuela), Maria Pieters (Venezuela), Javiar Cappucio (Argentinia), Erin Strait (USA)

Veterinarians fund 29 young international scientists

Bursary recipients from 12 different countries / 16 men and 13 women

(IPVS) – The International Pig Veterinary Society (IPVS) provided 29 young scientists with bursaries to enable them to attend the 18th world congress of pig veterinarians in Hamburg and present their research papers. The 29 researchers (16 men and 13 women) come from twelve different countries across four continents.

"We funded the 29 students because they wanted to publish scientific papers of an outstanding quality at the congress but wouldn't have been able to attend without a bursary," said IPVS secretary Christoph Pahlitzsch, practising veterinarian.

The funding is tiered: one section of the recipients received the conference fees (3rd level), a further section was also provided with hotel accommodation by the IPVS (2nd level) and the final section additionally had their travel expenses paid (1st level). The IPVS bursary budget totalled almost EUR 24,000.

32 scientists had put in applications for bursaries.