ABOUT THE INITIATIVE: These travel grants are to help as many young and productive neuroscientists as possible to attend the most crucial European Neuroscience conference: the FENS Forum (amount of support depends on the location of the forum). 

This time we sponsor 10 travel grants à € 300,- to go to the FENS Forum 2024 in Vienna.

TO BE ELIGIBLE YOU MUST:

- Be ANA student member OR regular member (PhD completed since no longer than 3 years)
- Having registered and submitted an abstract to the FENS Forum 2024.

- Not have previously received an ANA Travel Grant for a FENS Forum (travel support to an ANA meeting is not an exclusion criterion)

If eligible, we expect that you first apply for a FENS/IBRO travel grant and apply to ANA thereafter (see application package details, please note for 2024 no Austrian residents are eligible). 

WHEN TO APPLY: Send us your funding application after you registered to a FENS meeting. FENS meetings recur every other year - Check out the website for more info and event dates Fens Abstract submission and registration is expected to open on the 29th of November 2023

HOW TO APPLY: 

Send your application to the ANA Secretary Johannes Passecker (secretary@austrian-neuroscience.at) before the 14.02.2024

YOUR APPLICATION MUST INCLUDE:

• Submitted Abstract (without personally identifiable information)
• Motivation letter (without personally identifiable information, max. 1 page)
• Signed letter of Support by the PI confirming 1) the status of the applicant, 2) planned FENS attendance and 3) FENS/IBRO travel grant submission or reason why not. (The PI support letter does not need to include support other than these three points)
• Proof of FENS abstract submission
• For those eligible Proof of FENS/IBRO travel grant submission, for those not eligible PI letter needs to provide reason of why not (see above)