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17 January 2014
In 2014, the directors of The Dana Foundation once more approved a grant to FENS. This money enables funding of several small grants to various European Brain Awareness Week partner organisations for public presentation during the campaign. FENS warmly congratulates the grant winners! FENS distributed these grants in a competitive procedure. Read More
17 January 2014
17 January, 2014 in FENS News Grants for job interviews covering travel costs up to a maximum of 1,500 EUR to and from Europe to Japan and China for postdoctoral and Ph.D. student positions are available through the Young Researchers Exchange Support Programme. Deadline for applications: February 15th, June 15th, and October 15th In order [...] Read More
17 January 2014
17 January, 2014 in FENS News FENS-IBRO stipends of 750 € for international students are available for the following 5 courses: - EEG in neurology and neuroscience: Switzerland, September 1-5, 2014 - ELECTRAIN 2014 - Extended Methods Course in Electrophysiology: Germany, May 5-16, 2014 - New Targets in Neurodegenerative diseases: Emphasis on new advances in [...] Read More
17 January 2014
17 January, 2014 in FENS News Are you an early postdoc or PhD student working on psychiatric disorders? This school will introduce students to how neuronal circuit assembly processes are thought to interface with the emergence of psychiatric disorders. The focus of the school will mainly be mechanistic. This school will introduce students to how [...] Read More
17 January 2014
17 January, 2014 in FENS News We are inviting applications for the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School which will be held in Pike Lake, Romania from June 1-17, 2014. The course is focused on experimental and theoretical methods to study how the brain operates at the level of neuronal circuits. We cover various optical and [...] Read More
14 January 2014
14 January, 2014 in FENS News Six travel awards of NIS 2,000 are awarded to excellent students to attend the FENS 2014 Meeting in Milan. Three are donated by the Sieratzki family and three by the Israeli Society for Neuroscience. Requirements:1] PhD students at one of the Israeli institutions of higher education may apply.2] Presentation [...] Read More
06 January 2014
06 January, 2014 in FENS News We are inviting applications for the FENS-Hertie Winter School "The neuroscience of decision making" to be held from January 11-18, 2015, in Obergurgl, Austria. The study of decision-making exposes principles of neural processing that underlie a variety of mental functions. The school will introduce students to recent advances emerging [...] Read More
19 December 2013
19 December, 2013 in FENS News The FENS Fall Trimestrial Newsletter is now available. Download here the FENS Fall Issue 2013. Enjoy your reading! Read More
19 December 2013
19 December, 2013 in FENS News In 2014, as already in the past, The Dana Foundation has asked FENS to administer this support reserved for European organisations contributing to the Brain Awareness Week (BAW). Application deadline: January 13, 2014 As a new initiative, a few awardees will be invited to prepare a poster based on [...] Read More
04 December 2013
04 December, 2013 in FENS News The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) is a federation of 43 scientific non-profit societies in Europe, representing more than 21.000 individual scientists working in the field of neuroscience. Job description – main tasks: The main tasks related to the available position as administrative assistant include: 1) Administrative support [...] Read More
03 December 2013
03 December, 2013 in FENS News The call for symposia for the 11th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society is open. Symposia dealing with all areas of neuroscience research are invited. The application must be submitted via the German Society’s website. The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 3, 2014 For further information and [...] Read More
18 November 2013
18 November, 2013 in FENS News Judit Makara, from the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, has received this award for her findings on the mechanisms that determine interactions and integration of multiple activated synaptic inputs in neurons. For further information, please visit the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award [...] Read More
17 November 2013
17 November, 2013 in FENS News ERROR We are inviting all members of FENS to please support the defense of non-human primate research in Belgium by signing a petition following this link. Read More
03 November 2013
03 November, 2013 in FENS News ERROR The FENS History funding round has been finalized and 3 projects were selected to be carried out starting with 2014. FENS warmly congratulates the awardees! Please visit FENS History page to see who are the awardees, as well as the titles of their projects. Read More
30 October 2013
30 October, 2013 in FENS News ERROR Pierre J. Magistretti of Lausanne, Switzerland, has been elected as the next president of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) by the IBRO Governing Council, which comprises IBRO’s member societies across the world. For further information, please check theIBRO website. Read More