IOA Offers Scholarships to 2025 Conference in Miami

The International Ombuds Association is offering scholarships for its annual conference on April 5-9, 2025, in Florida. Scholarships will provide funds for new/aspiring Ombuds who do not have sufficient organizational support. The scholarship will cover the full cost of conference registration plus $500 for travel expenses. Unlike prior years, there is no separate scholarship for international applicants. The deadline to apply is December 17, 2024.

More details from IOA:

New & Aspiring Ombuds Scholarships

IOA offers to support organizational ombuds to attend the IOA Conference. This scholarship is for those who are new to the ombuds field or are seeking to enter it and who do not have organizational or institutional support to attend.

This scholarship will cover the full cost of registration for the IOA 2025 event, plus $500 stipend to support travel expenses.

Eligibility Criteria & Scholarship Requirements

• Applicants must be an IOA member.

• Applicants must have less than one year of organizational ombuds practice at the time they apply.

• Applicants must not have additional financial support from their employer or other organization to attend the conference.

• Applicants must provide one reference with their contact information in their application.

• Scholarship recipients must write a brief (1-2 paragraph) summary about their experience and post it on the IOA blog within one week following the conference.

After application review, scholarship recipients will be randomly selected from eligible applicants. All applicants will be notified around January 2025.

New and aspiring ombuds scholarship applications are due by 17 December 2024.

(IOA Conf Scholarship Info.)

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