NENS Education and Training call for clusters 2020: four proposals selected

Launched for the first time in Autumn 2020, the call for NENS Education and Training Clusters aims to stimulate and/or strengthen the cooperation among NENS school programmes.

The selected clusters should address new needs in the neuroscience community and respond to current challenges countered in specific neuroscience domains. A funding of maximum EUR 7,000 per awarded cluster was available.

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NENS Clusters

Following the 1st Call for Education and Training Clusters launched in autumn 2020 among NENS graduate school programs, 4 cluster proposals have been awarded and will be developed in 2021:

1. MoViR NENS Cluster, comprised of 3 partner institutions in collaboration with 2 SMEs:

• The Bordeaux Neurocampus Department
• The Universitat Jaume I Master’s Degree in Brain and Behaviour Research
• The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

2. Trilateral course on Glia in neuroinflammation, composed of the following partners:

• Master program in Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest (coordinator)
• Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade
• Doctoral Program in Molecular Medicine, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland

3. NENS Brain & Mind Cluster, composed of the following partners:

• Doctoral Programme Brain & Mind, University of Helsinki, Finland (coordinator)
• Master’s Programme in Neuroscience, University of Helsinki, Finland
• PhD Program in Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• János Szentágothai School of Neurosciences, Semmelweis University, Hungary
• Graduate Programme of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark

4. Advanced skill training in Neuroscience courses: a case study of Drugs & Brain, composed of the following partners:

• European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON) (coordinator)
• Graduate Programme in Neuroscience, University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• PhD in Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
• Master in Health Sciences and PhD in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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