NENS Exchange Grants for training stays are intended for Master and PhD students enrolled in a NENS member school programme. Candidates should be members of a FENS society or FENS individual members. Is your school programme not a NENS member? Ask your coordinator to join NENS via an online request, there is no membership fee required, but numerous benefits.

Applicants are expected to spend a period of one to three months at a NENS member school of their choice in a different European country for the purpose of methodological training.

The exchange grants cover travel and accommodation costs of up to EUR 3,000.

Application deadlines: biannually – on 15 April and 15 October (midnight, Brussels time)

Interested in applying for a NENS exchange grant?

• Watch the flash webinar on NENS Exchange Grants 
• Check the school programmes participating the NENS exchange grants initiative via the NENS  Programme Directory (see “List view”)

Successful applicants are required to hand in a report after the completion of your training stay to the NENS Office. After the report is submitted the grantee will be reimbursed. The report will be published on the NENS Alumni Students page.

Candidates have the possibility to conduct an individually arranged training stay at a laboratory associated to a NENS school; students could also take part in organised courses offered by that NENS programme during the training stay in the laboratory.

Training must be completed during the year that follows the deadline of the application.

Preference will be given to early-stage students and those who intend to conduct methodological training for the integration in their research work.

International stays within the NENS community will be prioritised in accordance with the NENS ethos of fostering training and exchange at the level of graduate research and education across the European neuroscience community.

For questions related with NENS Exchange Grants, please contact nens@fens.org