The EPIET Alumni Network (EAN) supported four applicants from Lithuania, Portugal, and Georgia with a travel grant this year.

The alumni association of the European programme for intervention epidemiology training EPIET (EPIET Alumni Network, EAN) administers a small number of competitive travel grants to allow epidemiologists to attend the meeting. Eligible were those applicants whose abstracts were accepted for an oral or poster presentation at ESCAIDE 2012. Preference was given to countries that had previously been under-represented at ESCAIDE (see   EAN Outreach Project).In addition, grants for applicants from Portugal were provided by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Applicants for these grants did not have to have an accepted abstract, but preference was given to those with accepted posters or oral presentations at ESCAIDE.

The deadline for applications was Wednesday 5 September 2012, applications were sent via e-mail to the EAN board.