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Survey on Patient Involvement in Research Projects by ERDERA
NEURON is pleased to announce the following survey conducted by ERDERA on “Patient involvement and engagement in research projects”. This survey aims to get patient organisations’ opinion and feedback about their involvement and engagement in research projects.
The survey will be open until end of July and is conducted by ERDERA’s patient-engagement working group.
New Impact Report available
Impact report: Joint Transnational Call 2018 on ‘Mental disorders’.
Event recap| February 2025
ERA-Net NEURON-QUEST Workshop ‘Open Science Support for funded Projects of JTC2024 – ‘Bidirectional Brain-Body Interactions’
We are delighted to announce the EPNA awardees:
EPNA 2024 goes to Dr. Samantha Cote
ELSA-EPNA 2024 goes to Dr. Renée Harting
Applications Now Open for the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award!
Deadline: April 30, 2025 (10:00 PM UTC)
Discover the What About Pain? Video Series
ERA Net NEURON is proud to present the What About Pain? video series, featuring interviews with leading experts in pain research. Recorded during the Foresight Symposium on Pain in May 2024 in Berlin, the series explores critical topics such as pain treatment, biomarkers, sex and individual differences in pain sensitivity, and the challenges facing pain research today.
New Podcast Episode: Patient involvement in neuroscience research – EFNA
Check out the latest episode of EFNA’s Brain Health Matters podcast on the growing recognition of the crucial role that patient organisations in driving advancements in medical research, featuring an interview with Dr. Christina Mueller, Scientific Officer at ERA-Net NEURON and Henk Lindeman, experienced NEURON patient reviewer, who discuss the benefits of involving patients in the reviewing process for research funding applications.
Newsletter Nr. 46 – The new issue of our newsletter is online!
Latest news and announcements from NEURON (EPNA call 2024) | Foresight Symposium on Pain| Interview on Research Journey: Prof. Asya Rolls, EPNA2009 Awardee and Plenary Lecture Speaker at FENS 2024 | Interview with Ana Dorrego-Rivas EPNA 2023 Awardee
NEURON Partners Host Symposium on Pain in Berlin: Report Now Available
In May 2024, NEURON-Partners INSERM and CNRS held a hybrid symposium on “Pain” in Berlin. The report by Nawel Boulmane, featuring an introduction by Etienne Hirsch and Bernard Poulain, is now available online
Deadlines Extended until November 1st!
New EPNA Calls Now Open: Submit by October 1st, 2024
Two new calls for the “EXCELLENT PAPER IN NEUROSCIENCE” EPNA AWARD 2024 are now online. Researchers are invited to submit their work under the following thematic focuses:
- Cerebrovascular Diseases: Go to call
- Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) of Neuroscience: Go to call
Both calls have a submission deadline of October 1st, 2024.
Event recap| June 2024
Explore the photos from the award ceremony with winner Dr. Ana Dorrego-Rivas and the special lecture at the FENS Forum 2024 on June 29th, 2024, in Vienna.
Event recap| June 2024
Recap of ERA-Net NEURON Plenary Lecture at the FENS Forum 2024 in Vienna
Event recap| June 2024
New Recap online: Networking Event for Early Career Researchers: ‘Challenges of Multidisciplinarity for Training, Career, and Funding in Neuroscience’ at FENS Forum 2024 in Vienna
Event recap| May 2024
Midterm symposium JTC 2021 on Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Berlin on May 16th and 17th, 2024
Event recap| February 2024
NEURON hosted the ‘Open Science’ workshop on February 21st – 22nd, 2024 in Berlin
Success Story| June 2024
New success story online: Project AUTISYN: Modelling Syndromic Autism Caused By Mutations in the ADNP Gene
Event | May 2024
Recap: ERA Net NEURON meeting from May 14th to May 17th, 2024 in Berlin
News| May 23, 2024
NEURON is excited to announce its participation at the FENS FORUM 2024 (25. – 29.6.2024) in Vienna! Join us for the networking sessions and lectures.
Success Story| May 14, 2024
Project DiSCoVeR: Examining the synergistic effects of a cognitive control videogame and a home-based, self-administerd non-invasive brain stimulation on alleviating depression
News | January 8, 2024
EPNA 2023 Award goes to Dr. Ana Dorrego-Rivas from the University of Bordeaux, INSERM Neurocentre Magendie, France
BIOMEDICAL CALL 2024 | Open
New biomedical Call JTC2024 „Bidirectional Brain-Body Interactions“ is open.
Submission deadline for pre-proposals: 08 March 2024, 14:00 CET
News | November 2023
On Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 the CSA BrainHealth held its kick-off meeting in Bonn, Germany, and online
More than 90 attendees witnessed the formal opening and start of the CSA BrainHealth. The program comprised presentations by EU Commission representatives and partners of the CSA project. Representatives of European and international countries, the European Brain Council (EBC), the digital infrastructure EBRAINS, and the patient organization European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA) entered into a lively discussion with the broad audience about the scope of the project, the meaning of the term ‘brain health’ and the role of social sciences therein.
The coordinator, Dr. Marlies Dorlöchter (DLR, Germany) summarized: “In preparation of the envisaged European Partnership on Brain Health, the CSA BrainHealth is ready to start the complex process, and I am glad to rely on such strong partners. Brain health as a common and global challenge requires collaborative and integrative efforts.”
News | August 2023
New Coordination and Support Action: BrainHealth
The ERA-Net NEURON gladly announces that the new Coordination and Support Action ‘BrainHealth’ was positively evaluated and starts now the contract negotiations. Further information and a new website will follow soon.
EPNA CALL 2023 | August 2023
New EPNA Call open!
The call “Excellent Paper In Neuroscience – Award 2023” with the thematic focus on Neurodevelopmental Disorders is open.
The deadline for proposal submission is September 29, 2023, 5:00 PM (UTC-GMT)
Event announcement| June 2023
Coming up soon: Online Lay Lecture “It takes guts to think” 22 June (17:00 CEST)
Prof. Pascal Derkinderen from the Nantes Universite, France explains how the enteric nervous system in the guts is related to brain disorders and why it “takes guts to think”.
Event Recap| May 2023
Impressions on Cajal Training Course on Neuroepigenetics, 21 Nov – 9 Dec 2022 in France
The Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme is an esteemed international training program designed for postgraduate students in neuroscience. The latest training session was held in Bordeaux, France, from 21 Nov to 9 Dec 2022 and focused on Neuroepigenetics. Read on to discover the impressions of the participants and gain valuable insights into their experiences during the Cajal Training Course on Neuroepigenetics.
Announcement | March 2023
FLAGERA call on data reuse has been launched.
Topic: Preclinical and clinical neuroscience research through data reuse
Newsletter | January 2023
The new ERA-NET NEURON newsletter has been published.
Topics: Latest News and Announcements from NEURON | Open Science Support | Results of the NEURON Joint Transnational Call 2022
Call Launched
The Call ELSA-JTC2023 “Neuroethics” is online.
Call Launched
The Joint Transnational Call 2023 “Resilience and Vulnerability in Mental Health” is online.
News | 5.12.2022
The report about the international Foresight Symposium in May 2022 in Bonn Germany on the topic “Mechanisms of Resilience and Susceptibility in Mental Health” is online now!
Online webinar
Join in! On October 21, 2022, there will be a webinar on Covid & Mental Health. This ERA-NET NEURON event is open to the public.
Registration deadline
Register for Horizon Europe Info Day in Taiwan by September 26, 2022
The conference will be held on October 6, 2022 in Taiwan and online.
New call
Networking Group Call 2022 “Chronic Pain” is open now!
Deadline: 8.11.2022 | 2pm Berlin Time
9-13 July, 2022, Paris/France | Conference
Recap: The ERA-Net NEURON at FENS Forum 2022
Event deadline
Apply until 22 August for the new Cajal hands-on training course on neuroepigenetics
This course is organised in partnership with ERA-Net NEURON. Stipends are available
06 July 2022 | Call Pre-Announcement
COMING UP SOON: Neuron launches Networking Groups Call on Chronic Pain
11 October 2022 | External Conference
Final conference and Shared European Brain Research Area Research Agenda (SEBRA) consultation
5 – 9 September 2022 | External Conference
5th Oxford | Berlin Summer School on Open and Responsible Research in the Life Sciences 2022
Registration will close on 30th of April 2022
25th & 26th April 2022 | Virtual Event
EFNA and NEURON are offering a training for potential NEURON lay reviewers in April 2022!
1st & 3rd February 2022 | Virtual Meeting
European Biomedical Research Infrastructures’ resources for Researchers in Neurosciences
The 2-day-webinar is organised by NEURON (ISCIII partner) in collaboration with EBRA and will address the different resources that several European Biomedical Research Infrastructures, such as ELIXIR, EBRAINS and INFRAFRONTIER, can offer to the researchers in Neurosciences.
25-26 January, 2022 | Virtual Event
3rd ESFRI-EOSC Workshop on Research Infrastructures (RI) and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
ESFRI announces the next workshop on the connection of Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) entitled “What does EOSC bring to RI users?” on 25 & 26 January 2022, as a fully virtual event.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 | Webinar
Save the Date: Webinar on “Good Lay Summary Practice” Recommendations
The webinar is organised by EFPIA & EFGCP 9th November 2021 – 15:00-16:30 CET. It will cover the new EU recommendations and ideas on how to prepare for the new regulatory obligation.
Friday, October 29th, 17:00 CEST | Webinar