New student fee starting 1 January 2024
Several years ago, the IUSSP introduced a free student membership for a 4-year period. We hoped that this offer would lower the threshold for younger colleagues to join IUSSP and allow them to get to know our activities and sample the benefits of being a member of the worldwide network of population scientists. We also hoped that, after this “no-cost” introduction, students would continue their affiliation with IUSSP through a paid membership.
While we were happy to see that this offer attracted new members to IUSSP, we also observed over the past years that only very few of them continued their membership once the free offer expired. This may be because they left the field, it might also be because they have not been able to cover the cost of full membership, or it may be that they decided to end their relationship with IUSSP.
Membership fees are an important source of income for professional associations like IUSSP to carry out their work and service to the scientific community. Being a member of such a community comes at a price. The IUSSP takes pride in its efforts to keep this price as low as possible and has developed a tiered fee structure to account for the widely varying financial contexts and fee-paying options of its global membership. For the above reasons we have come to the conclusion that the free student membership is no longer sustainable and will be discontinued.
As we wish to remain attractive to new generations of population scientists and we value their inputs in our activities, a new fee for students will become effective as of 1 January 2024.
The new one-time student fee covers 4 years of membership as a Student Associate member of IUSSP and is set at Euro 40 for students residing in High Income Countries and at Euro 20 for students residing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Students may opt for the “Student Associate” status. Their student status needs to be validated once by uploading a certificate of their enrollment as a student. The Student Associate status can be maintained for at most 4 years1; after this period, it should be converted to a regular membership.
Student Associates are entitled to the regular membership benefits such as access to postings on career and study opportunities on the IUSSP website (restricted to members), direct email notifications about IUSSP, webinars, preferential access to IUSSP training workshops and other IUSSP activities, and other demography events and publications, the IUSSP Bulletin and the N-IUSSP Magazine.
There are also direct financial benefits for students! Student Associates are entitled to reduced registration fees for IUSSP conferences such as the upcoming International Population Conference (IPC) 2025 in Brisbane! When qualified, they can also apply for financial assistance for IPC 2025.
Students are most welcome to join the worldwide IUSSP community!
1. Current (2023) student members whose membership expires are entitled to take the 4-year package if their student status is still valid. |