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13 December 2018
13 December, 2018 in FENS News In collaboration with FENS and Wiley, EJN is inviting nominations for the Best Publication Award and The Young Investigator Prize, personal prizes of GBP 3,000 and GBP 7,000 respectively. Calls for nominations will open on 7 January 2019. The Best Publication Award is given to the best research article [...] Read More
11 December 2018
11 December, 2018 in FENS News FENS warmly congratulates the ten history online projects awarded in 2018. The FENS History Committee organises annual calls for European History of Neuroscience Projects, to document the history and development of neuroscience in Europe. The following projects are the ones selected in 2018 and granted to receive support. Twenty-six applications [...] Read More
05 December 2018
05 December, 2018 in FENS News The FENS travel grants recipients to attend the bi-annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa in 2019 (Lagos, Nigeria) 24-28 March 2019) have been selected. Warm congratulations to the travel grant recipients! The travel grant awardees are: László István Gerecsei (Semmelweis University, Hungary) Mussie Ghezu Hadera (University of [...] Read More
03 December 2018
03 December, 2018 in FENS News FENS members can register for the Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in 2019 at special rates. If you are a FENS member intending to attend the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (25-28 July 2019, Toki Messe, Niigata, Japan) and you would like to benefit from the [...] Read More
01 December 2018
01 December, 2018 in FENS News FENS and IBRO-PERC are offering travel grants for young qualified researchers to attend the 6th FENS Regional Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia on 10 - 13 July 2019. The FRM 2019 travel grants amount to a maximum of € 750. The German Neuroscience Society is also generously contributing.The eligibility criteria are the following: [...] Read More
30 November 2018
30 November, 2018 in FENS News The FENS History Committee has launched a History Corner poster competition. Come and visit the History Corner at the FENS Regional Meeting (FRM) 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia (10-13 July), where you will have the opportunity to learn more about the History of Neuroscience in Serbia, Romania and Turkey. Selected [...] Read More
28 November 2018
28 November, 2018 in FENS News Through a reciprocal agreement, FENS will provide travel scholarships for European PhD students and/or early career researchers who are FENS members to attend ACAN in 2019. ACAN is an intensive three-week course held on beautiful North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia that teaches the theory and practice of electrophysiological recording [...] Read More
23 November 2018
23 November, 2018 in Societies & Partner News 1 November 2018 marked the launch of the European Brain Council (EBC)-coordinated EU project The European Brain Research Area (EBRA). EBRA was designed to respond to the Horizon 2020 call, SC1-HCO-10-2018, entitled “Coordinating European brain research and developing global initiatives”, which called for the reduction of fragmentation [...] Read More
22 November 2018
22 November, 2018 in FENS News FENS offers travel grants to young investigators, PhD or MSc students to attend the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society ("Brain Science Takes Flight: Bridging the Mind and Life", Toki Messe, Niigata, Japan, 25-28 July 2019). These grants - of up to € 1.200 each - are intended to [...] Read More
20 November 2018
20 November, 2018 in FENS News EJN Special Issue on Depression and on Sex Differences in Neuroscience and Neuropsychopharmacology. We look forward to receiving your submissions! EJN Special Issue on Depression, with Guest Editors Michel Barrot and Ipek Yalcin. Read the Call for Papers Here bit.ly/2D9dip8 EJN special Issue on Sex Differences in Neuroscience and Neuropsychopharmacology; [...] Read More
14 November 2018
14 November, 2018 in Societies & Partner News FENS welcomes Dr Kevin Moses as Vice President of Science Programs at The Kavli Foundation. Dr. Moses will oversee The Kavli Foundation’s flagship programs in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience and theoretical physics, including the 20 Kavli Institutes around the world, the Kavli science meetings program [...] Read More
09 November 2018
09 November, 2018 in FENS News FENS Forum 2020: What Introductory Scientific Workshops and Early Career Research Events do you want? Quick 2-Question Survey. The British Neuroscience Association (BNA), which will host the FENS Forum 2020 in Glasgow, launched a call for topics related to the following: Topics for Introductory Scientific Workshops Around five Introductory Scientific Workshops [...] Read More
25 October 2018
25 October, 2018 in FENS News Call for nominations open on 1 November 2018. This award is sponsored by the EJN's publisher Wiley and is given in recognition of an outstanding scientific work in any area of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of £ 10,000.Candidates must be nominated by fellow neuroscientists (no self-application accepted) and [...] Read More
15 October 2018
15 October, 2018 in Neuroscience News Call for Nominations open in the field of Cosmology, Genetics, or Neuroscience. The Gruber Foundation invites nominations on behalf of individuals whose achievements in Cosmology, Genetics, or Neuroscience would make them suitable candidates for recognition through the 2019 Gruber International Prize Program. Each prize, which is accompanied by a [...] Read More
12 October 2018
12 October, 2018 in FENS News The FENS and ANS travel grants recipients to facilitate the attendance of young investigators, PhD or MSc students to the 38th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland, 3-6 December 2018) have been selected. Warm congratulations to the travel grant recipients! The [...] Read More