Welcome to ERA-NET NEURON
Research into the diseases of the brain benefits from joint funding schemes by networks of funding agencies and ministries in Europe and beyond the European borders. The ERA-Net NEURON Cofund2, as a funding platform focused on neurological and mental disorders, holds a strategic position in bringing pre-clinical and clinical research communities closer together and fostering translational research, while covering the entire value chain.
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Project GDNF UpReg: Personalising the Path to Mental Healthcare
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EPNA 2025 Award Ceremony, April 18th 2026
The EPNA 2025 awardee Dr Christopher Poppe presented a special lecture at NEUROETHICS 2025 in Lucca, Italy.
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Better brain research together: NEURON and JPND projects met in Berlin for an open science workshop, 25–27 February 2026
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EPNA Biomedical Call | Status: Closed
EPNA – Biomedical call 2025: “Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability to Environmental Challenges in Mental Health”
Submission deadline for applications: October 15, 2025
EPNA ELSA Call | Status: Closed
EPNA – ELSA call 2025: “Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) of Neuroscience”
Submission deadline for applications: October 15, 2025
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Project HYBRIDMINDS: Understanding the Ethical, Legal, and Human Dimensions of Neurotechnology and the “Hybrid Mind”
The HYBRIDMINDS project, a German-Swiss-Canadian collaboration funded under ERA-Net NEURON’s ELSA-JTC2020, aims to analyse the significance of neurotechnological developments from a legal perspective, and to advance human rights to meet fundamental human needs in the rapidly developing field of neurotechnology.
MulioBio: Rethinking Psychiatric Disorders – A Shift from Diagnostic Labels to Biological Mechanisms
The MulioBio project – funded under ERA-Net NEURON’s 2019 Call – set out to challenge traditional boundaries in psychiatry by identifying biological markers that correlate with symptoms—regardless of formal diagnosis.
ENTRUST-PE: A New Framework for Trustworthy Pain Research
ENTRUST-PE project – funded under ERA-Net NEURON’s 2022 Networking Group Call -brought together an international network of experts to address a critical question at the heart of scientific integrity: How can we build a more trustworthy foundation for chronic pain research?
ELSA Project FUTUREBODY: Exploring Neurotechnology’s Impact on Society and the Human Body
The FUTUREBODY project, a German-Austrian-Canadian collaboration funded under ERA-Net NEURON’s ELSA-JTC2017, examined the implications of recent and future progress in neurotechnology for society and our understanding of the human body and mind. The project ran from 2017 to 2022.
Project AUTISYN: Modelling Syndromic Autism Caused By Mutations in the ADNP Gene
AUTISYN, a multinational collaboration funded under NEURON’s JTC2015, aimed at studying the ADNP gene and its implications in autism.
Project DiSCoVeR: Examining the synergistic effects of a cognitive control videogame and a home-based, self-administerd non-invasive brain stimulation on alleviating depression
DiSCoVeR, a multinational collaboration funded under NEURON’s JTC2018 call, is set to examine the effects of a novel, home-based treatment approach to alleviate depression. To achieve this, a videogame training cognitive control combined with non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) is self-applied by the patients in the comfort of their home, offering promising prospects for wider accessibility, compliance and effectiveness.
ELSA Project PNS: Psychiatric Neurosurgery ─ Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues
Project PNS is a multinational collaboration funded under NEURON’s JTC2015 co-funded call for research projects on ethical, legal and social aspects (ELSA) of neuroscience. The project goals were investigating ethical, legal, and societal issues of all kinds of contemporary psychiatric neurosurgery (PNS) and publishing recommendations for a responsible use of PNS.
Project BIO-AX-TBI: Developing and Validating Blood and Imaging Biomarkers of Axonal Injury Following Traumatic Brain Injury
BIO-AX-TBI, a multinational collaboration funded under NEURON’s JTC2016 co-funded call, aimed at finding applicable ways to measure axonal injury for guiding treatment choices and predicting the recovery of Traumatic Brain Injury patients.
Project AxonRepair – Spinal cord repair: releasing the neuron-intrinsic brake on axon regeneration
AxonRepair, a multinational collaboration funded under NEURON’s JTC2016 co-funded call, aims to promote axon regeneration in the spinal cord.
REVIS (‘Restoration of Vision after Stroke’)
A man sits at a machine called a Humphrey, his head leans on the machine as his finger clicks when he sees a light pulses. He tells us in voiceover to the images we are watching…
Neuroimaging
MESCOG (‘Mechanisms of small vessel related brain damage and cognitive impairment: integrating imaging findings from genetic and sporadic disease‘)…
A Neuron 2012 paper on research funded under the frame of ERA-NET NEURON
The research of Hebrew University neurobiologist Prof. Nelken, who led a team investigating brain activity in the auditory cortex of rat brains,could in the long term lead to…