SARE Professional Development Program Travel Scholarships

Traveling as a SARE Scholarship Recipient

Southern SARE provides funds for journey to occasions the place instructional data could also be imparted or gained for sustainable agriculture. Scholarship recipients are people who attend instructional occasions typically by way of Southern SARE’s Professional Development Program (often known as PDP). For instance, Extension brokers or mentor farmers who attend occasions by way of their State Ag Coordinator are known as scholarship recipients.

Southern SARE can also reimburse scholarship recipients in different situations. For instance, if graduate college students, researchers, farmers or different ag professionals attend occasions to current their SSARE funded analysis initiatives by way of SARE sponsorship, or if professionals are invited to SARE occasions for talking engagements.

The SSARE area contains 13 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Allocation of funds is performed with a give attention to effectivity, cost-effectiveness, and group.

Travel funds might be appropriated in considered one of two methods, and the procedures for such journey are as follows:

To start the method, full the Request for Travel type. Any incomplete types will probably be returned.

E-mail your Request for Travel type to David Redhage, PDP Program Manager. Your journey request will probably be reviewed. If any corrections or revisions are required, we are going to work with you to make these modifications. Approved funds are distributed as a reimbursement.

In order to have bills reimbursed for SARE-related journey, the next documentation is required:

The paperwork and authentic receipts could also be e-mailed. However, all journey types and receipts MUST BE CLEAR AND LEGIBLE. If any paperwork are deemed illegible, they are going to be returned for correction, which can delay reimbursement processing time. Errors, lacking/incorrect data, and lacking receipts may also delay the processing of reimbursement. ALL reimbursement requests have to be submitted inside 20 days of the shut of the occasion. Reimbursement requests won’t be accepted after 20 days. Send all journey reimbursement types and receipts to:

We advocate you make copies of the types and receipts and maintain them in your recordsdata for 3 years.

Refer to UGA’s Non-Employee Travel Policy for extra pointers.

The State of Georgia has obligatory statewide contracts with specified automotive rental suppliers for journey throughout the Continental U.S. UGA requires renting autos from these suppliers when renting a car is the popular or most advantageous mode of transportation. For extra data, go to UGA’s website.

NOTE: Per University of Georgia coverage, solely accommodations/motels are allowable lodging institutions for reimbursement. Businesses, corresponding to Airbnb, Vrbo, HomeAway, condos/townhomes, or related trip leases will not be allowable lodging providers. All vacationers want to pay attention to this State of Georgia coverage and that neither UGA nor USG has the authority to grant exceptions. For UGA to reimburse lodging bills, vacationers should keep at a lodge or motel. For journey reimbursement functions, all 50 U.S. states are thought-about home journey. The 16 U.S. territories and commonwealths, together with Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are additionally thought-about home journey.

International journey isn’t allowed.