A message from the FENS President following the decision of Nikos Logothetis, then director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, to stop his research on primates after having been targeted by animal activists.

FENS – Articles of the association

The FENS Strategic Plan for 2020-2022 serves two purposes: a radar screen of actions to be undertaken by the FENS governing bodies and a presentation of FENS policy to member societies and individual membership.

Through its activities, grants and awards, FENS supports the education and continued training of neuroscientists, with a particular focus on early career neuroscientists. Learn more with this video

This episode of the FENS 2020 Daily Highlights Podcast features interviews of speakers at the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum: Angela Roberts (UK), Carla Shatz (US), Johannes Gräff (CH), Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (DE), Erin Schuman (laureate of the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize 2020, DE) and Dervila Glynn (Chair of the FENS Communication Committee, UK).
Produced by Malcolm Love – Interviewers: Anders Jespersen, Harry Potter, Shruti Muralidhar
Made with the support of the Dana Foundation

This episode of the FENS 2020 Daily Highlights Podcast features interviews of speakers at the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum: Anita Luthi (CH), Trevor Robbins and Irene Tracey (UK), Eve Marder (US), Deepak Srivastava (UK) and Fritjof Helmchen (CH), Chair of the FENS 2020 Programme Committee.
Produced by Malcolm Love – Interviewers: Anders Jespersen, Harry Potter, Shruti Muralidhar
Made with the support of the Dana Foundation

This episode of the FENS 2020 Daily Highlights Podcast features interviews of speakers at the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum: Erin Schuman (DE), Sheena Josselyn (US), Kate Jeffery (NZ), Avishai Henik (laureate of the FKNE Mentoring Prize 2020, IL) and John Foxe (EJN Editor-in-Chief, US).

Produced by Malcolm Love – Interviewers: Anders Jespersen, Harry Potter, Shruti Muralidhar
Made with the support of the Dana Foundation

This episode of the FENS 2020 Daily Highlights Podcast features interviews of speakers at the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum: Sonia Garel (FR), Rui Costa (US), Tara Spires-Jones (UK), Lisa Traunmüller (FKNE PhD Thesis Prize 2020, DE) and Lars Kristiansen (FENS Executive Director, BE).
Produced by Malcolm Love – Interviewers: Anders Jespersen, Harry Potter, Shruti Muralidhar
Made with the support of the Dana Foundation

This episode of the FENS 2020 Daily Highlights Podcast features interviews of speakers at the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum: Jan Born (US), Seth Grant (UK), Carmen Sandi (FENS President 2018-2020, CH) and Jean-Antoine Girault (FENS President 2020-2022, FR).
Produced by Malcolm Love – Interviewers: Anders Jespersen, Harry Potter, Shruti Muralidhar
Made with the support of the Dana Foundation

In this FENS webinar, four speakers discussed aspects of computing that are particularly relevant for neuroscience, as well as different ways we should teach them to the new generation of neuroscientists.

This FENS live webinar aims to provide participants with useful tips on how to write a successful FENS-Dana Brain Awareness Week 2023 Grants application and how to run an engaging outreach event. The webinar will include an interactive Q&A session with the speakers to provide hands-on tips to the audience.

FENS and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) strongly advocate for the responsible use of animals in biomedical research. Their position is explained in this 2014 joint paper.

This playlist contains lectures given during the FENS SfN Summer School 2016 on Cellular mechanisms and networks in addiction (held in Italy). The interview with the School’s scientific organisers provides an introduction.

This playlist contains lectures given during the FENS SfN Summer School 2018 on Neural stem cells, brain orga0ids and brain repair (held in Italy). The interview with the School’s scientific organisers provides an introduction.

FENS, the Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) strongly advocate for the responsible use of animals in biological and biomedical research. (2014)

FENS brings together 20,000+ neuroscientists, 44 member societies across 33 European countries. FENS aims to advance research and education in neuroscience, through training and facilitating scientific exchange and interaction. Learn more about FENS and our mission with this video

Opinion article produced by FENS-Kavli Scholars (FKNE), and published in the European Journal of Neuroscience (EJN).

Biography of Gilberto Rossi (1894-1960), a neurophysiologist whose work has left a deep trace in the neurophysiology of the 20th century.

Global statement on the use of animals in Biomedical Research (2014)

Project funded under the FENS call for history of neuroscience projects.

Biography of Golgi, Camillo – Italy
Via IBRO

Research and online presetation of Heinrich Obersteiner (1847 – 1922), frequently mentioned as the founding father of Neuroscience at Vienna.

Website examining the history of Romanian neurology and psychiatry: understanding the connection between science, political ideals and national contexts, both at a regional and international level.

Project funded under the FENS call for history of neuroscience projects.

Authors: Myrto Denaxa & Domna Karagogeos.

Material produced under the FENS Committee of Higher Education and Training (CHET) umbrella, hosted on Neuronline.

Biography of Huxley, Andrew – UK
Via SfN

Professor Zoltán Molnár talks to author and historian Iain Pears to better understand “a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment” in which Thomas Willis lived and worked.

As part of an effort to provide scientists with strategies to openly communicate about animal research with the wider public, the European Animal Research Association, a communications and advocacy organisation promoting biomedical research across Europe, hosted a workshop series, supported by FENS and SfN, on Improving Openness in Animal Research in Germany.

An insight into well-k0wn Greek doctors that had a major impact in the field of Neuroscience.

Photo and video materials related to I. Beritashvili and his experiments.

Biography of Iversen, Leslie L. – UK
Via SfN

Biography of of Já0s Szentágothai, a former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a groundbreaker in his field.

The FENS Forum 2022 will take place on 9-13 July 2022 in Paris, France. Further info: www.fens.org/2022

Joint statement supporting the European Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (2015)

Statement regarding the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals’ Meetings of 13 September 2018 on the use of animals in neuroscience research.

Biography of Katz, Sir Bernard – Germany/UK
Via SfN

A letter on the importance of animal research in neuroscience (2016)

A series of video lectures given by living legends of Spanish neuroscience (in Spanish, with English subtitles).

Biography of Luciani, Luigi – Italy
Via IBRO