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ALBA-FKNE-YIBRO diversity grants for the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum

26 May 2020

26 May, 2020 in Societies & Partner News The ALBA-FKNE-YIBRO Diversity Grants aim to broaden access to the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum. Application deadline: 14 June 2020 The ALBA Network, the FENS Kavli Network of Excellence (FKNE), and Young IBRO (YIBRO) in partnership with FENS, IBRO, the Federación Latinoamericana de Neurociencias y el Caribe (FALAN), the Federation of Asian-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS), and [...] Read More

Brain Awareness Week 2020

17 January 2020

FENS is happy to announce that, thanks to the Dana Foundation grant, 33 BAW projects held in 21 countries are funded in 2020. [...] Read More

The Kavli Prize 2020: call for nominations open

23 September 2019

23 September, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The Call for nominations for the 2020 Kavli Prizes is now open and will close on 1 December 2019. The winners will be announced on 27 May 2020 and the award ceremony will take place in Oslo, Norway on 8 September 2020. The Call for nominations for [...] Read More

The Brain Prize Meeting

18 July 2019

18 July, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The Brain Prize Meeting 2019 will take place on 25-27 November 2019 in Copenhagen. With international keynote speakers including the 2019 Prize winners, this Meeting aims to bring a broad range of researchers to discuss why small vessel disease has emerged as a major contributor to dementia [...] Read More

IBRO-Kemali Foundation Prize Awarded to Dr Hailan Hu

15 July 2019

15 July, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The 12th IBRO-Kemali International Prize for Research in the field of Basic and Clinical Neurosciences has been awarded to Dr Hailan Hu. Dr Hu will be giving a featured lecture at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience in July 2020 in Glasgow. The IBRO-Kemali Foundation Prize Committee is [...] Read More

The Brain Prize 2020: Call for Nominations

18 June 2019

18 June, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The call for nominations is now open for candidates for The Brain Prize 2020, the €1 million prize awarded by the Lundbeck Foundation. The Brain Prize recognizes highly original and influential advances in research on the nervous system, covering all aspects from fundamental studies to research related to [...] Read More

EBRA Call for Cluster launched

18 March 2019

18 March, 2019 in Societies & Partner News EBRA consortium is launching a Call for Clusters to promote co-operation and exchange between brain research projects and networks, and thus enable or enhance international collaboration and the emergence of development of clusters in all areas of brain research. The aim of EBRA is to foster new, [...] Read More

The Brain Prize 2019 awarded

05 March 2019

05 March, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize announces that The Brain Prize 2019 is awarded to four French neuroscientists: Professor Marie-Germaine Bousser, Professor Hugues Chabriat, Dr Anne Joutel and Professor Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve. The Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize announces that The Brain Prize 2019 is awarded to four French neuroscientists [...] Read More

Brain Awareness Week 2019

17 January 2019

FENS is happy to announce that, thanks to the Dana Foundation grant, 33 BAW projects held in 21 countries are funded in 2020. [...] 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

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

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

FENS supports EBC calls for “Horizon Europe” budget increase

17 July 2018

17 July, 2018 in Societies & Partner News The launch of the European Brain Council (EBC) statement “Counting down to zero: Towards a future with underfunded health research?” calls on the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council to increase the budget of the “Horizon Europe” programme to at least €120 billion. The European [...] Read More

2018 KAVLI Prize in neuroscience announced

01 June 2018

01 June, 2018 in Societies & Partner News The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for 2018 to A. James Hudspeth, Robert Fettiplace and Christine Petit. The KavliPrize in Neuroscience is shared between A. James Hudspeth, of the The Rockefeller University, Robert Fettiplace, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Christine Petit, of Collège [...] Read More

The Brain Prize 2019: Call for Nominations

16 May 2018

16 May, 2018 in Societies & Partner News The call for nominations is now open to look for candidates for the € 1 million prize, The Brain Prize, which is awarded by the Lundbeck Foundation. The Brain Prize recognizes highly original and influential advances in research on the nervous system, covering all aspects from fundamental [...] Read More