Grants and Waivers

Grants & Waivers

LDCs and other developing countries' 


nationals are given a high priority for fee waivers and travel grants. Here is a list of all past and upcoming support programs:

100% Fee waiver-Full GEM- Syrian Government Executive level

The Syrian government is pursuing major reforms—economic recovery, new management, and strategic planning—to build a stronger future.

To support evidence-based policymaking, we invite executives, senior consultants, and ministry advisors in economic/financial roles to apply for four full fee waiver grants to attend the upcoming General Equilibrium Macroeconomic (GEM) training (January 2026). The 6-module program covers CGE and DSGE modeling, equipping leaders to address real-world challenges with advanced tools.


Submission deadline:                                                     Applications are OPEN

Number of Awards: 4      

Link to apply here   

Intro. to CGE Partial fee waiver

For the 10 selected participants who are expected to gain the most from this training program and apply their knowledge to their country's development, preference will be given to researchers and public officials working closely with their governments.


Number of Awards: 10           

Link to apply        

Submission deadline: 05.04.2025                             Applications are Closed

GEM training fee waiver

For nationals of countries in conflict, Ukraine, Palestine, ebanon, Yemen and Sudan

Submission deadline: 09.2024                             Applications are closed

Number of Awards: 3     (Samer Barakat (Lebanon), Khaled Hamid (Yemen) and Serhi Druchyn (Ukraine)                 

Travel and Fee-Waiver grant

For accepted paper authors in annual GEC conference 2019 in Kassel-Germany. 

Submission deadline: 07.2019                               Applications are closed

Number of Awards: 2                           

Fee-Waiver grant for DSGE Training

For participants in the first intake of the online training " Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium"

Submission deadline: 07.2020                               Applications are closed

Number of Awards: 1                          Abu Obyda (Bangladesh)

Fee-Waiver grant for Bayesian Training

For participants in the first intake of the online training " Bayesian for Research and Data Science"

Submission deadline: 12.2020                               Applications are closed

Number of Awards: 2    - Sabir Ahmed (Bangladesh) & Adenklue Kazeem (Nigeria)                        

Best Paper Award

For accepted paper authors in annual 2021 GEC Virtual Conference 

Submission deadline: 08.2019                               Applications are closed 

Number of Awards: 1