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02 September 2011
02 September, 2011 in FENS News FENS travel grants for SfN meeting in Washington awarded FENS awarded 16 travel grants for the participation in the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (November 12-16, 2011) in Washington, USA. The selection process was highly competetive: FENS had received 360 applications. The travel grants amount to [...] Read More
06 April 2011
06 April, 2011 in FENS News First Project on European Neuroscience History completed The first funding round for history projects on European neuroscience in 2010 has supported three projects. The first project called "Portraits of European Neuroscientists" has now been finalized and made available via the FENS History webpage. Please follow the link for more [...] Read More
04 April 2011
04 April, 2011 in FENS News 1st CARE workshop held in Germany in March 2011 RE workshop has been held during the annual meeting of the Germany Neuroscience Society in March in Göttigen. It was the first opf it's kind and it is intended to organize similar events at the national meetings of the FENS [...] Read More
09 March 2011
09 March, 2011 in FENS News The document is published in EJN and concerned with Psychiatric and neurological diseases representing a considerable social and economic burden in Europe. Written by Monica Di Luca, Mary Baker, Renato Corradetti, Helmut Kettenmann, Julien Mendlewicz, Jes Olesen, Ian Ragan and Manfred Westphal. Consensus Document on European Brain ResearchDi [...] Read More
04 March 2011
04 March, 2011 in FENS News The Brain Prize 2011 was awarded to the former FENS President Tamas Freund Three Hungarian neuroscientists were awarded the € 1 million BRAIN PRIZE 2011 for their brilliant analysis of brain circuits involved in memory. One of them is Tamas Freund, FENS President form 2004 to 2006. The Brain [...] Read More
18 February 2011
18 February, 2011 in FENS News 8th International Prize of the Dargut and Milena Kemali Foundation 2011 - call for nominations and applications Prize of the Dargut and Milena Kemali Foundation for Basic and Clinical Neurosciences 2011 - call for nominations and applications (nominations preferred). Application deadline: April 8, 2011. The Eighth International Prize of [...] Read More
15 February 2011
15 February, 2011 in FENS News Terje Sagvolden (1945-2011) in memoriam Professor Terje Sagvolden, one of the Founding fathers of FENS, suddenly died on January 12th. Earlier in the day, he had enjoyed a ski trip, and in the evening he experienced chest pains. He has been the FENS representative of Norway since FENS was [...] Read More
02 February 2011
02 February, 2011 in FENS News Brain Awareness Week funds 2011 2011, the directors of the Dana Foundation approved a grant to FENS once more. This money enables funding of several small grants to various European Brain Awareness Week partner organizations for public presentation during the campaign. FENS distributed these grants in a competitive procedure. [...] Read More
09 December 2010
09 December, 2010 in FENS News Position of FENS on the new Directive 63-2010 on the use of animals in scientific research The Committee on Animals in Research (CARE), has phrased the position of FENS on the new EU Directive 63-2010 on the use of animals in research. FENS comments the EU for updating the [...] Read More
24 November 2010
24 November, 2010 in FENS News Decision on FENS Travel Stipends for FFRM in Ljubljana, Slovenia The reviewing commitee has carefully evaluated the numerous applications we received and all applicants have received an e-mail about the decision on Monday, April 18th. The travel grant amount (up to 500 EUR) will be based on the estimated [...] Read More
18 November 2010
18 November, 2010 in FENS News NEW: FENS Trimestrial Newsletter - Fall 2010 FENS has lauched the new Trimestrial Newsletter which aims to inform its readers on FENS related activities, to introduce the various FENS committees and to keep the FENS members up-to-date in European Neuroscience. The new Trimestrail Newsletter - Issue Fall 2010 can be [...] Read More
21 October 2010
21 October, 2010 in FENS News New Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals The EU Directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes has been published October 20, 2010. The text in all EU languages can be found going to the relevant issue of the European Journal (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ%3AL%3A2010%3A276%3ASOM%3AEN%3AHTML) and using the drop [...] Read More
14 September 2010
14 September, 2010 in FENS News 9th Goettingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society The 9th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society is taking place from March 23 - 27, 2011. The deadline for abstract submission and early registration is now closed. The Meeting offers 7 plenary lectures, 24 symposia and extended poster sessions. [...] Read More
07 September 2010
07 September, 2010 in FENS News Annual meetings of national FENS member societies in 2011 For your information you can find the dates and places of various FENS member society meetings. Austrian Neuroscience Society / September 19 - 21, 2011 in TirolBelgian Society for Neuroscience / May 23, 2011 in Leuven Brain Research Society of Finland / March 11, 2011 [...] Read More
02 September 2010
02 September, 2010 in FENS News New offer for FENS members from PsyPress Psychology Press is pleased to offer a 25% discount ON all Taylor&Francis behavioural sciences titles to FENS members. Please contact the FENS Office Berlin for the discount code. Read More