FENS Trimestrial Newsletter – Fall Issue 2013
19 December 2013
19 December, 2013 in FENS News The FENS Fall Trimestrial Newsletter is now available. Download here the FENS Fall Issue 2013. Enjoy your reading! Read More
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Funding available for the Brain Awareness Week 2014 (10-16 March)
19 December 2013
19 December, 2013 in FENS News In 2014, as already in the past, The Dana Foundation has asked FENS to administer this support reserved for European organisations contributing to the Brain Awareness Week (BAW). Application deadline: January 13, 2014 As a new initiative, a few awardees will be invited to prepare a poster based on [...] Read More
FENS vacancy: Administrative Assistant
04 December 2013
04 December, 2013 in FENS News The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) is a federation of 43 scientific non-profit societies in Europe, representing more than 21.000 individual scientists working in the field of neuroscience. Job description – main tasks: The main tasks related to the available position as administrative assistant include: 1) Administrative support [...] Read More
11th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society – Call for Symposia
03 December 2013
03 December, 2013 in FENS News The call for symposia for the 11th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society is open. Symposia dealing with all areas of neuroscience research are invited. The application must be submitted via the German Society’s website. The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 3, 2014 For further information and [...] Read More
Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2014 is confered to Judit Makara
18 November 2013
18 November, 2013 in FENS News Judit Makara, from the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, has received this award for her findings on the mechanisms that determine interactions and integration of multiple activated synaptic inputs in neurons. For further information, please visit the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award [...] Read More
Petition on Use of Non-Human Primates
17 November 2013
17 November, 2013 in FENS News ERROR We are inviting all members of FENS to please support the defense of non-human primate research in Belgium by signing a petition following this link. Read More
FENS History Funds 2013 Awarded
03 November 2013
03 November, 2013 in FENS News ERROR The FENS History funding round has been finalized and 3 projects were selected to be carried out starting with 2014. 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
The next president of IBRO announced
30 October 2013
30 October, 2013 in FENS News ERROR Pierre J. Magistretti of Lausanne, Switzerland, has been elected as the next president of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) by the IBRO Governing Council, which comprises IBRO’s member societies across the world. For further information, please check theIBRO website. Read More
Historiography of Neurosciences
29 October 2013
29 October, 2013 in FENS News ERROR As a contribution to the FENS History of Neuroscience series, a new website was recently launched and made available via the FENS History webpage. For more information, please visit: Historiography of Neurosciences in Eastern Europe, Romania, 1870-1970 Read More
The Summer Issue of the FENS Trimestrial newsletter is out
29 September 2013
29 September, 2013 in FENS News ERROR http://www.fens.org/about/newsletter.html Read More
2014 Kavli Prize Call for Nomina
03 September 2013
03 September, 2013 in FENS News ERROR The 2014 Kavli Prize call for nominations has been opened by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Academy will receive nominations through December 1, 2013. Complete nomination information, including an online form, is available at http://www.kavliprize.no Read More
Free iBook: Primates in Medical Research
03 September 2013
03 September, 2013 in FENS News ERROR How do researchers work with primates? Which species do they use? What has research with primates revealed? How are the primates looked after?These are the questions answered in the new iBook, Primates in Medical Research. The iBook features recent video clips recorded in primate research and breeding facilities in [...] Read More
Excellent Paper in Neuroscience Award 2013 – for papers published in 2012
19 August 2013
19 August, 2013 in FENS News The ERA-NET NEURON call is open for the Excellent Paper in Neuroscience Award The ERA-NET NEURON call is open for the EXCELLENT PAPER IN NEUROSCIENCE AWARD to recognize outstanding scientific publications by young researchers in the field of disease related neurosciences. The deadline for proposal submission is September 15th, 2013. First authors [...] Read More
The Human Brain Project: Competitive Call for additional beneficiaries
19 August 2013
19 August, 2013 in FENS News ERROR The HBP has reserved a portion of its ramp-up phase funding for specific research tasks to be carried out by new beneficiaries who will join the consortium in 2014. These new beneficiaries will be selected from proposals submitted in response to this Competitive Call. The Competitive Call covers the following topics of [...] Read More
János Szentágothai and his legacy for neuroscience in Hungary and worldwide
29 July 2013
29 July, 2013 in FENS News János Szentágothai and his legacy for neuroscience in Hungary and worldwide A new awarded history of neuroscience project is now available online! To commemorate the life and works of János Szentágothai for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2012, the Hungarian Neuroscience Society assembled a website: www.szentagothai.hu Read More