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11 March 2013
11 March, 2013 in FENS News Six eminent scientists share the world’s largest brain research prize 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. Together these scientists laid the foundations for a [...] Read More
08 March 2013
08 March, 2013 in FENS News Alexander Borst receives FENS-EJN Award 2014 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. How do nerve cells compute? This is the [...] Read More
06 March 2013
06 March, 2013 in FENS News World Research and Innovation Congress: Pioneers in Healthcare (5-6 June 2013, Brussels) 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. The first World Research and Innovation [...] Read More
01 February 2013
01 February, 2013 in FENS News Brain Awareness Week Funds 2013: the grant awardees announced n 2013, the directors of the Dana Foundationonce 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 [...] Read More
29 January 2013
29 January, 2013 in FENS News Europe gives 2bn euros to science: The human brain project is one of the two main winning initiatives Research projects investigating the "miracle material" graphene and the human brain have won the largest research excellence award in history, as battle for sustained science funding continues. The European Commission announced [...] Read More
28 January 2013
28 January, 2013 in FENS News Research and Innovation: Commission widens search for expert advisors for Horizon 2020 The European Commission has launched a call asking experts from all fields to participate in shaping the agenda of Horizon 2020. Deadline for registering: 6 March 2013. This marks the first time that the Commission has launched [...] Read More
21 January 2013
21 January, 2013 in FENS News SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference '13 - Call for abstracts is now open: Submission Deadline is 15 June 2013 Abstract submission available here. SNC'13 (Ljubljana, 27-29 September 2013) is the fifth biannual international neuroscience meeting organized by SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Association, in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine of the University [...] Read More
21 January 2013
21 January, 2013 in FENS News European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) Meeting 2013: Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15 May 2013 The registration and abstract submission for the 45th EBBS Meeting (Munich, 6-9 September 2013) are now open. Further information and the preliminary programme are available here Read More
21 December 2012
21 December, 2012 in FENS News FENS-SfN Advocacy Grants 2012 awarded - FENS warmly congratulates the grant receivers! On FENS-SfN Advocacy Section you can discover who are the awardees, alongside with a brief description of the granted proposals. The second advocacy funding round has been carried out and FENS warmly congratulates the grant receivers! Read More
20 December 2012
20 December, 2012 in FENS News 11th French Neuroscience Society meeting in Lyon, May 21-24, 2013 - Call for abstracts is now open! News archive Read More
12 December 2012
12 December, 2012 in FENS News Pan-European organisations call for an advanced understanding of the human brain A new strategic report, The Human Brain – From Cells to Society, Toward Better Mental Health in Europe, has been published today by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The aim of the report is to provide a framework [...] Read More
12 December 2012
12 December, 2012 in FENS News The boon and bane of the impact factor The editorial "Impacting our Young" by Eve Marder (Past President of the American Society for Neuroscience), Helmut Kettenmann (Past President of FENS) and Sten Grillner (President of FENS) has been published in the most recent issue of PNAS (PNAS 2010 107 [...] Read More
21 November 2012
21 November, 2012 in FENS News Help us support the Horizon 2020 budget! The European Brain Council (EBC) needs your help, your support and your brains! EBC urges for your support in ensuring that the European Commission's proposals and budget are approved without any reduction in the health spend. The EC has put an ambitious [...] Read More
14 November 2012
14 November, 2012 in FENS News Sign the petition to protect the EU research budget FENS supports the ise petition against cuts in the EU budget for research. Make your voice heard, take action and sign the petition. To protect research funding from cuts, the scientific community must stand up to make its case. On [...] Read More
18 October 2012
18 October, 2012 in FENS News FENS History Funds 2012 Awarded The FENS History funding round has been carried out and 4 projects were awarded. FENS warmly congratulates the awardees! Please visit FENS History page to see who are the awardees, as well as the titles of their projects. Read More