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FENS invites member societies, scientists or organizations to propose topics for FENS schools in 2014. Two schools will be organized in 2014: one winter school in collaboration with the Hertie Foundation and one summer school  in collaboration with the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) . For detailed information and submitting your ideas , please visit the  Call for Ideas page. 

FENS will carry out this History funding initiative once more in 2013. This initiative provides grants for outstanding projects that aim at documenting the history and development of neuroscience in Europe. Projects will be funded by up to € 3000. Further details and the application form are available on the FENS History page .The deadline for application is September 5, 2013.

We kindly invite you to join us in Ljubljana for the 5th biannual international Conference of Slovenian Neuroscience Association SiNAPSA , organized in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. This interdisciplinary meeting will cover a wide array of neuroscience research from the molecular to the systems level.

Following the recent animal extremist activities at the University of Milano, the Basel Declaration Society has been calling for solidarity and is announcing a rally organised by Pro test Italy On June 1st in Milano.

CARE is supporting this event and addressing neuroscientists in Italy to join!

This award is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and is announced by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS). It is given in recognition of outstanding and innovative scientific contributions in any area of neuroscience research. The prize money is 25.000 Euro.Deadline for application: July 31, 2013

We congratulate our FENS members who placed their events scheduled in May under the EMoB umbrella! We wish you all successfull meetings!

As part of a series of high-level meetings on the neurosciences in Europe and being co-organised by ESF and FENS, this conference will be focused on the molecular and cell biological mechanisms of synapse formation and function, and on the pathological aberrations of these processes that lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders. Deadline for applications: 15 July 2013 . Further information are available here .

FENS offers 15 travel grants for the participation in the annual meeting of the SfN (San Diego, November 9 – 13, 2013). The successful applicants have been selected.

In collaboration with prominent and long-standing partners of FENS including the Hertie Foundation , a new programme for European higher education – schools and training will be started in 2014. 

With a pledge to continue its commitment to transporting animals used in biomedical research, AirFrance supports global neuroscience research and efforts to advance our knowledge and understanding of the nervous system.

FENS offers travel grants for the participation in the FENS Featured Regional Meeting (FFRM, Prague, September 11 - 14, 2013). The successful applicants have been selected.

Established by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, The Brain Prize is intended to raise the visibility of European neuroscience and to be a stimulus to this important field of research. Nominations are expected until 15 September 2013 . For the online nomination and details of the nomination procedure, please visit: www.thebrainprize.org

The exhibition examines the historical development of Neuroscience and is divided in three sections.

Chaired by Sten Grillner, Karolinska Institute and Ann Graybiel, MIT, Cambridge, this ESF-FENS conference is will bring together outstanding researchers in key, broadly defined areas of contemporary neuroscience to discuss current concepts and define challenges for future research. Deadline for applications: 21 July 2013 . Detailed information on the conference are available here .

During the Brain Awareness Week 2013, 27 projects were awarded a grant of maximum 1,000 EUR by the DANA Foundation/FENS. The final report of the awarded projects can be viewed  here .

More information on the Month of the Brain 2013 and how to join in and be a part of the EMoB, are available here .

In collaboration with FENS and Wiley-Blackwell, EJN awarded the "Best Publication Award 2013" to Lisa Schnell. This award recognizes the best research article published in EJN over the preceding two-year period and is bestowed to the first author of the selected article. It is a personal award of 3,000 £.

The FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize is given in recognition of outstanding scientific work in any area of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of 7,000 GBP. In 2014, the award will be presented to Emre Yaksi.

The building which in the past housed the Institute of General Pathology of the University of Pavia, where Camillo Golgi settled his school and his laboratory, has recently become part of the Museal System of the University of Pavia . 

The Winter Issue of the FENS Trimestrial Newsletter  is now available online. Enjoy your reading!

The project examines the chronological development of European Neuroscience through the representations portrayed by the caricaturists. Explore this online project here . 

The names of the prize winners, Austrian Gero Miesenböck, Germans Ernst Bamberg, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, and Americans Ed Boyden and Karl Deisseroth, were announced on 11 March in Copenhagen.

The FENS EJN Award is given in recognition of outstanding scientific work in any area of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of 10,000 GBP. In 2014, the award will be presented to Alexander Borst.

The World Research and Innovation Congress aims to bring together key stakeholders in healthcare research to discuss the most important issues impacting our efforts to address the Grand Challenges’ of tomorrow.

In 2013, the directors of the  Dana Foundation  once more approved a grant to FENS. This money enables funding of several small grants to various  European Brain Awareness Week  partner organisations for public presentation during the campaign. FENS warmly congratulates the grant winners!