Scholarships

Every year, IATEFL Besig offers two scholarships:

First-time Speaker Scholarship

for the IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference

Facilitator Scholarship 

for the IATEFL Annual Conference

This scholarship is for a first-time speaker at the Annual IATEFL BESIG Conference. It is intended to encourage our fellow business English professionals to share their valuable experience and knowledge with the community. It is an ideal opportunity to actively participate in this dynamic, well-established conference and show others what you have to offer. In return you benefit both professionally and financially.


To qualify you must:


To be considered you should:



All applicants, including the winner, will be contacted by a set date by the IATEFL BESIG committee whose decision is final.


The scholarship consists of:


The IATEFL BESIG Facilitator Scholarship enables an IATEFL Business English SIG (BESIG) member to attend the IATEFL Conference and to give a presentation during the BESIG Showcase.

This scholarship is for a business English practitioner who has been an IATEFL BESIG member for at least six months. It will be awarded to a person interested in starting up and/or facilitating local business English events in their home areas and contributing to IATEFL BESIG through articles for Business Issues or any of BESIG's web-based communication tools. 

 The scholarship consists of:

To qualify you must:

To be considered you should submit:

Previous First-Time Speaker Scholarship Winners


Previous Facilitator Scholarship Winners

How to apply

Details on how and when to apply for the scholarships will be announced when they are offered again on the IATEFL events page (First-time Speaker Scholarship) and scholarships section (Facilitator Scholarship)



Applications for the 58th IATEFL Conference in Edinburgh are now closed

Congratulations to all winners!

To view all scholarship announcements, please visit the IATEFL website. If you have any questions about scholarships or the application process, please email conference@iatefl.org.

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