Support for American students, especially paper authors, is being provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) - for applications please contact Peter Brusilovsky

User Modeling 2005 will also provide some limited travel, housing, and registration support for full-time students attending the conference. If you are interested to receive this support, please, send an informal e-mail to the local organisation chair (see this page) indicating your status at the conference and the events you want to attend. Students with accepted contributions have higher chances to get support, however, any full time student is qualified to apply. In addition to your letter, you need to send (by mail of fax) a statement from your department that states either that no financial support is available or that a partial financial support will be provided. Since UM2005 wants to maximize the value of the limited travel support funds, the availability of partial support from your home department (for example, airfare) will increase your chances to get support. All students who will get UM2005 support will need to spend some fraction of their time on-site helping the Organizing Committee as Student Volunteers.

PROLEARN is also providing student support for representatives of PROLEARN associated partners, who can apply for travel grants. Several travel grants will be provided to these partners according to their contributions to the associated workshop. Interested students should apply directly to the workshop organisers.

The organizers of the Workshop on Privacy-Enabled Personalization anticipate that partial support will become available for workshop participants who are students at U.S. institutions or U.S. citizens studying abroad.

In addition, there will be 2 James Chen awards (1000$ each) for the best student papers.

UK-based students can also apply for support to the IEE. The IEE has a number of Travel Awards to support IEE members to broaden their experiences. For further details see: www.iee.org/scholarships. Please note that these awards are administered by the IEE directly, so eligible students should apply to the IEE, not to UM'05 organisers.