In partnership with IBRO-PERC, FENS has launched this initiative to support MSc and PhD neuroscience students - European and non-European - to broaden their knowledge and acquire international experience by participating in short courses organised by the NENS schools.
The FENS and IBRO-PERC stipends of 750 EUR each are intended to cover travel and accommodation costs for master and PhD students (European and non-European) interested in attending short courses outside the country where they are studying or residing.
NENS school courses awarded in 2020:
- International Interdisciplinary Computational Cognitive Science Summer School - IICCSSS (2 - 7 August 2021, Tübingen, Germany), IMPRS for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt, Germany. Application opens in April 2021.
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- Imaging the behaving brain with miniscopes - a practical hands-on training (4-8 May 2020, Braga, Portugal), Master in Health Sciences and PhD in Health Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal;
! Application closed on 6 March 2020. Due to COVID-19 developments, the course will be rescheduled. Further information will be available soon.
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- VII International school for young scientists "Active and passive methods of brain research" (21-25 May 2020, Moscow, Russia), Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: From Neuron to Cognition, Moscow, Russia;
! Application closed on 6 March 2020. Due to COVID-19 developments, the course will be rescheduled. Further information will be available soon.
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- Summer Course on Fear, Anxiety, Obsessions & Trauma (28 June-3 July 2020, Florence, Italy), International Master in Affective Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands;
! Due to COVID-19 developments, the course will be rescheduled. Further information will be available soon.
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- Developmental Neurobiology Course (3-14 February 2020, Madrid, Spain), UAM Master's Degree in Neuroscience, Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain.
- The FENS and IBRO-PERC stipend awardees to attend the Developmental Neurobiology course are:
- - Ema Bokulic (Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, Croatia);
- - Elisa Guma (McGill University, Canada);
- - Tabitha Rücker (University of Hamburg, Germany)
- - Beatriz Thomasi (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil).
- Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience" 2020 (17-21 February 2020, Berlin, International Master Program Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany. The FENS and IBRO-PERC stipend awardees to attend the Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience" 2020 are:
- - Davide Bonfati (Universita degli Studi di Verona, Italy);
- - Ruby Lyall (University College London, United Kingdom);
- - Shira Simon (Vrije Universitet, the Netherlands);
- - Przemyslaw Zawadzki (Jagiellonian University, Poland).
2014-2020: Slots in NENS courses

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- CHET Regulations: Slots in NENS school courses