FENS Awards

The Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal of Neuroscience announce the launching or the call for the EJN Best Publication Award 2011.

In collaboration with FENS and Wiley Blackwell, EJN is launching the Best Publication Award 2011, awarding the best research article published in EJN 2009 or 2010. This personal award of 3,000 £ will be bestowed to the first author(s) of the selected article.

Submission deadline: February 28, 2011

The application consists of the following documents, bundled together into a single PDF file:

One page summary addressing the significance of the work PDF of the article Short biosketch (2 pages) of the first author (or first authors in case of equal first co-authorship) A signed statement by all authors of the article confirming their support for the nomination and that they agree with the selection of the nominee and, in case of multiple first authors, the selection of the speaker for the Ljubljana meeting.

Applications should be submitted in form of a single PDF attachment to the EJN Editorial Office:

editorial.office@ejn.uk.com

Applications will be evaluated by a Committee consisting of five Associate Editors and the Editors-in-Chief of EJN.

kind regards,

Tanja Butzek 

A number of University and Research Institute consortia may shortly be preparing applications for the current round of Marie-Curie Training Grants for which the preliminary applications must be submitted by early May.

FENS has recently had face-to-face discussions with officers of the Marie-Curie program in Brussels, and I am pleased to announce that FENS can serve as a collaborating partner in such applications. This may be helpful for some applications, though not others. Specifically, FENS cannot be a body that accepts and trains Ph.D students (ESRs), but it can offer access to its Winter and Summer Schools and to its growing body of targeted  PENS  Training  Centers. EU funds may then be available to defray the costs of attendance by M-C students within such  training grants and to open access to others elsewhere in Europe.

Accordingly, the FENS Office would be happy to hear from those putting together consortia that might wish to consider this possibility. We believe it could, subject to scientific relevance, be advantageous for some applications given the excellent track record of the FENS /IBRO  Schools. We cannot guarantee to join many applications, nor should we, but we would be interested in hearing from application coordinators who might think this would be helpful.

Please contact Meino Gibson in the FENS Office (BERLIN) in the first instance.

FENS OFFICE BERLIN
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Robert-Rossle-Str. 10
D-13092 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 9406 3336
Fax: +49 30 9406 3819