Call for Symposia: 12th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society

19 January 2016

19 January, 2016 in Neuroscience News The Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Societies is one of the largest multi-disciplinary neuroscience meetings in Europe with around 1.700 participants. The meeting covers a wide range of research fields in the neurosciences including vertebrate and invertebrate systems, molecular, cellular and systemic neurobiology, neuropharmacology, developmental, computational, behavioral, cognitive [...] Read More

FENS President at the ERA-NET Neuron meeting

18 January 2016

18 January, 2016 in FENS News FENS President, Monica Di Luca, participated to the kick off meeting of ERA-NET Neuron which took place this 12 January in Berlin. At the meeting, priorities on brain research have been discussed with European policy makers and stakeholders. Monica Di Luca strongly made the point of the importance of [...] Read More

Brain Awareness Week 2016

17 January 2016

36 projects across 23 different European countries were selected and supported by the Dana Foundation Grants. [...] Read More

FENS welcomes the Malta Neuroscience Network as new member

15 January 2016

15 January, 2016 in FENS News This month, the Malta Neuroscience Network (MNS) joins FENS as the 43rd member organisation. FENS now represents neuroscience societies across 33 countries in Europe. FENS President, Monica Di Luca, says: “Our mission is to promote all aspects of neuroscience and to be at the service of the European neuroscience [...] Read More

ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award

11 January 2016

11 January, 2016 in Neuroscience News The ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award recognises exceptional research achievements in applied and translational neuroscience. The award is granted each year, alternating between basic science and clinical research. The 2016 award will be in clinical science research. The award winner receives a prize of EUR 10,000, a commemorative statuette and certificate, and is [...] Read More

The road to independence: how to get funding in neuroscience

10 January 2016

10 January, 2016 in FENS News A new opinion article from the FENS-KAVLI Scholars has been published on the European Journal of Neuroscience. This article focuses on the funding opportunities for young principal investigators (PI) working in Europe and ways to maximize the possibility of funding neuroscience research projects. The road to independence: how to [...] Read More

Brain Awareness Week 2016: the DANA Foundation will once again support projects that bring attention to brain research

14 December 2015

14 December, 2015 in FENS News The DANA Foundation has approved a grant to FENS to finance events during the 2016 Brain Awareness Week (14-20 March). The annual worldwide Brain Awareness Week is a campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research, as well as progress in the diagnosis, treatment [...] Read More

The FENS-KAVLI Network of Excellence supports the DORA Declaration

07 December 2015

07 December, 2015 in FENS News The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has been initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals. The FENS-KAVLI Network of Excellence welcomes, supports and signed the San Francisco Declaration in Research Assessment (DORA) whose aim is to improve the ways [...] Read More

Awardees of the 2015 Call for History of European Neuroscience Projects announced

04 December 2015

04 December, 2015 in FENS News FENS warmly congratulates the awardees of the 2015 Call for History of European Neuroscience Projects. The creation of a virtual platform dedicated to the History of Neuroscience aims to make available to the wide public autobiographies, videos, pictures and other electronic materials about illustrious neuroscientists of Europe and their distinguished work. [...] Read More

Brain health must be at heart of Europe 2020 strategy

03 December 2015

03 December, 2015 in FENS News A healthy brain is Europe's platform for national wealth, argues Professor David Nutt, President of the European Brain Council. We do not have to search the far reaches of space or the depths of the Earth to find the whereabouts of the most complex structure in the universe. It [...] Read More

Call for Nominations open for the FENS-KAVLI Network of Excellence PhD Thesis Prize and Mentoring Prize

24 November 2015

24 November, 2015 in FENS News In collaboration with the Kavli Foundation, FENS set up a prestigious network of excellent young neuroscientists, with the goal of fostering exchange between excellent junior/mid-career neuroscientists. Two calls for nomination are now open to honor a scientist who has demonstrated leadership in fostering the careers of neuroscientists and a young [...] Read More

The Brain Prize Master Class on Translational Neuroscience

18 November 2015

18 November, 2015 in Societies & Partner News The Master Class is an ECNP and Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation (The Brain Prize) initiative. The first Master Class will take place 10-12 April 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Brain Prize Master Class is a high-level small audience meeting where twenty talented European junior neuroscientists [...] Read More

The Kavli Foundation Spotlight Live: Hey Einstein, It Really Is a Quantum World

05 November 2015

05 November, 2015 in Societies & Partner News Ronald Hanson and Renato Renner discuss the strongest proof to date that quantum theory explains the true nature of the universe. WHAT KIND OF UNIVERSE DO WE LIVE IN? Dutch physicist Ronald Hanson has given us the best answer to that question to date. And Albert Einstein [...] Read More

A live webcast by The Kavli Foundation: A Call for ‘Brain Observatories’

29 October 2015

29 October, 2015 in Societies & Partner News On Friday, 30 October at 1 pm EDT (10 am PDT), join The Kavli Foundation for a live webcast with Miyoung Chun, Michael Roukes and Rafael Yuste on this proposed new way to catalyze the BRAIN Initiative. Spotlight Live: A Call for 'Brain Observatories' Six researchers essential [...] Read More

FENS President’s speech at the CAJAL course on Advanced Techniques in Synapse Biology

28 October 2015

28 October, 2015 in FENS News FENS President Monica Di Luca presented the CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme in front of trainees and instructors from the Advanced Techniques in Synapse Biology directed by Matthijs Verhage at the Bordeaux School of Neuroscience. On the 24th October FENS President Monica Di Luca visited the Bordeaux School of [...] Read More

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