Final call for abstracts – FENS Featured Regional Meeting 2015

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The Federation of European Neurosciences Societies (FENS) and the National Hellenic, Israeli and Serbian Neuroscience Societies are honoured to announce that the FENS Featured Regional Meeting (FFRM) will take place in Thessaloniki from October 7-10, 2015 at the «Ioannis Vellidis» congress centre, and will be accompanied by vibrant social events.

Social events include:

Basketball Tournament (free of charge)

The three organizing nations share a long history in Basketball, with numerous, unforgettable, exciting games conducted between national and associational teams. The city of Thessaloniki itself has a close relationship with basketball, as it has been largely known as the capital of modern Greek basketball. An indoors basketball tournament will be hosted at the Thessaloniki YMCA court. Students and older students are going to participate in the tournament in mixed teams. Medical support to students will be kindly provided by the Aristotle University Medical School.

Interested participants will be (almost) randomly allocated to four teams:

• Brainiacs
• Synaptics 
• Connectomes 
• Old timers

T-shirts will be provided to the players, who are kindly requested to bring their shoes and shorts. Two initial classification games will take place and the small and big finals will follow. The duration of the games will be 15 min each. The winners will have the opportunity to publish their papers in most international journals, under privileged reviewing processes. The Old timers are supposed to win, provided they make it through the tournament. When registering for the FFRM2015, do not forget to mention you wish to participate to the Basketball Tournament! 

Food Festival (40€ per person / 30 € for undergraduate student)

A Gastronomy Festival will be held at the area of the port, in a Warehouse at Pier A, an alternative and modern location of the city. The main objective of the event is a search of gastronomic identity of Thessaloniki in combination with Balkan flavors, on which so much is said and written. The street food “festival” will be accompanied by Greek and Balkan sounds from a live band.

In case you are interesting to participate in one or both these events, please add this information during your registration online. For those who have already register and they decided to participate, please contact the Meeting Secretariat at f.kyritsi@events.gr.

Further information available on the FFRM 2015 website.

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