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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
11 October 2018
11 October, 2018 in FENS News We make FENS through our member societies. It is, thus, highly important to support our national societies. Being a member of your national society –and attending its national meeting in 2019– means being part of FENS. It is only now a few months since I started using social media; [...] Read More
03 October 2018
03 October, 2018 in FENS News FENS provides travel grants to help young investigators, PhD or MS students to attend SONA conference 2019 (24-28 March) in Lagos, Nigeria The support is intended to support young investigators (MSc to Postdoc level) to attend SONA conference 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria. These grants - up to € 1.000 [...] Read More
19 September 2018
19 September, 2018 in Societies & Partner News The Dana Foundation invites you to enter the Brain Awareness Week Sticker Design Contest for the chance to have your creation become the sticker for the 2019 campaign, 11-17 March. Sticker designs must be original graphics that capture the spirit of the campaign and include the words [...] Read More
17 September 2018
17 September, 2018 in Neuroscience News The European Animal Research Association (EARA) with the support of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), invite to you to discuss improving openness in communications with the general public, political decision makers and opinion formers in Germany on animal research. There is [...] Read More
10 September 2018
10 September, 2018 in FENS News The paper is written by the FENS History Committee (2016-2018), in collaboration with FENS and IBRO Presidents, and with the input of Professor Gordon Shepherd. It reflects the activities organised and actions taken by the History Committee to preserve the European History of Neuroscience and promote its importance for [...] Read More