JSConf Ireland 2024 | Scholarships

Scholarships

We are running our Scholarship Program, which provides individuals from underrepresented groups with support to attend JSConf Ireland.

We are very grateful and would like to say a big Thank You to the companies and individuals who donate to our Scholarship Program.Granting these scholarships is made possible thanks to the wonderful people that buy Diversity Support Tickets, as well as the generous contributions made by our sponsors.

Anyone from an underrepresented group in tech is invited to apply for a scholarship. We especially invite and welcome Black, Indigenous & People of Color, QTIBIPOC/LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and people facing economic or social hardships. If you've wanted to visit JSConf Ireland, but haven't had the money or resources to, this is your chance! The Scholarship Program was made for you.

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Frequently asked questions

We will likely not consider you in our selection process.

We provide two kinds of scholarships, one with travel grant and one without.

If you get selected for a scholarship with travel support, you will receive a combo ticket to JSConf Ireland. Additionally and dependent on what you need, we will organize and cover your flights/transport and/or hotel (up to 3 nights). We will get in touch with you to discuss further travel details but if you have any questions beforehand, please reach out to us via info@jsconf.ie

In case you get a ticket-only scholarship, you will receive just a Regular ticket to JSConf Ireland.

All applicants for the Scholarship Program have to go through an application procedure. Along with personal details for the tickets itself, we ask applicants a few questions about what they do in tech or what they wish to learn at the event. These answers are helpful for the jury, who will evaluate the applications and award the tickets.

This is a good and valid question. In the past we unfortunately experienced a small number of scholarship holders that neither informed us beforehand nor showed up at the conference. Therefore we had tickets left which we were not able to give to another scholarship applicant from the waiting list. Applicants who needed a visa and travel were not among this group since we are in contact with them the weeks before the conference to book travel and hotel. That's why we decided to take a small fee per conference day for the scholarships without travel grants, just to make sure that people who are not able to attend inform us on time.

The budget is filled by generous donors, both from the Attendees and our Sponsors. Attendees can sponsor the Program with buying Supported tickets. Both Early Bird and Regular tickets are available in a Scholarship Supporting variant. This means that the ticket price includes a percent of a supported ticket that will be given to someone in need.

This depends on whether you need a visa to enter Ireland. We have two separate application timelines for people who need a visa and people who do not need a visa (i.e. Schengen area residents). The timelines are as follows:

If you need a visa: You need to apply before the 1st of June and we will let you know if you have been selected before the 1st of July.

If you do not need a Visa: You need to apply before the 1st of August and we will let you know if you have been selected before the 1st of September.

For the sake of fairness we don't give away a scholarship to the same person within 2 years, this means we won't consider anyone who has already received a scholarship for JSConf Ireland in the last two years.

Once you get selected for the scholarship, we will send you a form from which we will create an invitation letter for visa. This might take some time, so if your country has specific time restrictions on visas, please let us know in advance via info@jsconf.ie.

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