We are working towards getting some funding to encourage participation from candidates interested in on-campus participation who don’t benefit from a bench fee covering conferences.
For the moment, thanks to a collaboration with the COST – Action project iCOn-MICS, young researchers (less than 40 years old) who want to participate in the conference with a paper on Iberian comics (comics from the Iberian peninsula, but also from Latin America) can apply for funding that would cover the conference expenses (including travel). In order for them to be eligible, they need to be affiliated with an institution belonging to an ITC (Inclusiveness Target Countries). More details can be found at this link: https://iconmics.hypotheses.