FENS travel scholarships available to attend the Australian Course in Advanced Neuroscience (ACAN)

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

EBC-coordinated EU project The European Brain Research Area (EBRA) launched

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

FENS offers travel grants for the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society

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

EJN is launching 2 Special Issues!

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

Dr. Kevin Moses Named Vice President of Science Programs at The Kavli Foundation

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

Forum 2020: BNA call for topics

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

FENS EJN Award 2020: Call for nominations

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

2019 Gruber International Prize Program

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

The travel grant awardees to attend the ANS annual meeting in 2018 have been selected

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

Message from the FENS President

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

FENS supports the African Society of Neuroscientists meeting 2019 (SONA)

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

Brain Awareness Week Sticker Design Contest launched

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

Improving Openness in Animal Research in Germany: second workshop announced

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

EJN Editorial on Neuroscience without borders: Preserving the history of neuroscience

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

Call for the 2019 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience

05 September 2018

05 September, 2018 in Neuroscience News The Japanese Neuroscience Society will open the call for the 2019 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience on 1st November 2018. Scope of the Award: Research in developmental neuroscience at the tissue and cellular levels. The scope of the Award is not limited to phenomena during fetal or developmental stages; [...] Read More

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