Brain Awareness Week funds 2012

In 2012, 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 organizations for public presentation during the campaign. FENS warmly congratulates the grant winners!

FENS distributed these grants in a competitive procedure. A call for applications was launched and the best projects were selected. 73 applications from 23 different European countries were submitted, 29 projects in 19 different European countries can be supported. The following BAW events (listed in alphabetical order by last name) were selected for funding:

1. Aglioti, Salvatore Maria (Rome, Italy) Neuroscience and Neurodiversity: the social brain and the social world through the eyes of scientists and of individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions

2. Aviram, Refael (Jerusalem, Israel) Brain and Film – Collaboration with Jerusalem’s Cinematheque Theatre

3. Battaglia-Mayer Alexandra (Rome, Italy) THE BRAIN FOR LITTLE KIDS III: How can I see my brain and its activity?

4. Borroto-Escuela, Dasiel (Stockholm, Sweden) 24FramesPerSecond NEURO WEEK

5. Cragg, Lucy (Nottingham, United Kingdom) Funfair of the mind

6. Crawford, Winlove (Exeter, United Kingdom) Your amazing brain

7. Dierssen, Mara (Barcelona, Spain) BCNeuroscience, Celebration of the Year of Neuroscience in Spain

8. Efthimiopoulos, Spiros (Athens, Greece) Brain Awareness Week 2012

9. Emil, C. Toescu (Birmingham, United Kingdom) Art for the Brain

10. Esen, Ferhan (Eskişehir, Turkey) Brain Awareness Month (BAM) in Eskisehir- Turkey

11. FitzGerald, Una (Galway, Ireland) Understanding the brain and brain disorders

12. Franke, Margret (Berlin, Germany) Brain Awareness Week Berlin

13. Girão da Cruz, Maria Teresa (Coimbra, Portugal) Have Yourself a Merry Healthy Brain

14. Grieder, Matthias (Bern, Switzerland) Brain Week 2012, Bern

15. Gurzu, Cristian (Braila, Romania) Teen’s sharp mind

16. Heffer, Marija (Osijek, Croatia) Stress resistant

17. Hurlbert, Anya (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) The Neuroscience of Sport and Entertainment

18. Japaridze, Nadezhda (Tbilisi, Georgia) The Amazing Human Brain

19. Jovanovic, Ksenija (Toledo, Spain) La Semana del Cerebro 2012, Toledo

20. Krugers, Harmen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Neuroscientists at school

21. Milton, Amy (Cambridge, United Kingdom) Psy-Fi / SciScreen Compulsion Film Festival 2012

22. Mostert, Jeanette (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Brain Whispers, A world-wide demonstration of brain decoding Participating Universities: Frankfurt, Nijmegen, Hawaii and others

23. Pyza, Elzbieta (Krakow, Poland) The 2012 Brain Awareness Week in Krakow – “Brain Gender”

24. Rebelo, Sandra (Aveiro, Portugal) Brain in Motion

25. Starc, Martina (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Brain Awareness Week 2012: Communication in and between brains

26. Stevanić, Dušan (Belgrade, Serbia) Focus Brain in Belgrade 2012

27. Svjetlana, Kalanj Bognar (Zagreb, Croatia) BRAINY GRANNY – Aging brain

28. Thibert, Chantal (Grenoble, France) Our brain deceives us

29. Tillet, Yves (Tours, France) Brain Awareness Week: Events in Tours