Every year each Specialty Group can award one or more Student Merit Award to student(s) who are members of the Security and Defense Group to financially support the attendance of the annual conference for presenting their work. The student must have submitted a proposal for a talk, poster or presentation in a symposium and requested the award at the time of submission (either on the system of the S&D officers if requesting the award on the system was not possible). Awardees must present their submitted work at the conference to receive the award. They will receive an award certificate at the Specialty Group Security & Defence Business meeting at the conference where they will also briefly present themselves and their research. The form of the financial support will be provided by the SRA secretariat.