<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear MEI Community,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">We're pleased to announce that we have received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the 2016 Music Encoding Conference.</span><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">As part of this funding, we will be offering travel support for students to attend the conference and present their work. This comes in two forms:</span><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">-- Significantly reduced registration rates for all students</span><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">-- Five $800 travel bursaries, awarded on a merit basis to student presenters</span><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">The details of how to apply for the travel bursaries will be announced in the coming weeks. </span><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">We will also be organizing a special event for conference attendees, the details of which will follow in the new year.</span></div><div class=""><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">As a reminder, the deadline for submissions is the 31 October.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">Call for Proposals: </span><font face="SourceCodePro-Regular" class=""><a href="http://music-encoding.org/community/conference/call-for-proposals/" class="">http://music-encoding.org/community/conference/call-for-proposals/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SourceCodePro-Regular" class="">Conftool Submissions: <a href="https://www.conftool.net/music-encoding2016/" class="">https://www.conftool.net/music-encoding2016/</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">We look forward to seeing your (and your students'!) submissions.</span><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">Thank you,</span><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">Ichiro Fujinaga</span><br style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SourceCodePro-Regular;" class="">Andrew Hankinson</span></div></body></html>