General call description

The ERA-NET NEURON partner countries are issuing the EXCELLENT PAPER IN NEUROSCIENCE AWARD to recognize the most remarkable and outstanding scientific publications by young researchers in the field of disease-related neurosciences.

First authors of candidate publications published between January 1st, 2015 and December 31st, 2015 and affiliated with the call partner countries are eligible to apply.

An award of 3,000 Euros will be awarded to the best proposal. The winner will be invited as a special ERA-NET NEURON Young Investigator lecturer in the 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Copenhagen July 2-6, 2016 (exact date to be confirmed).

The award and travel costs related to the lecture will be covered by ERA-NET NEURON II.

Call Partner Countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerlant, Turkey, United Kingdom.

Eligibility

Author:

- First Author in the proposed publication.

- Age under 35 years old at the date of publication. Eligible breaks include parental leaves, long-term illness and national service. Other legal or personal circumstances are considered on a case-by-case basis. Concerning parental leave, national rules apply, or 12 months per child, whichever is the greatest.

- Less than 5 years from PhD dissertation at the date of publication.

- The Author must be affiliated in a call partner country at the time of publication.

- In case of equal first co-authorship, the award may be split if all authors meet the eligibility criteria for the award.

Publication

- Award period: published between January 1^st, 2015 and December 31^st, 2015.

- Original research article in an international peer review journal.

- Impact factor of the journal above 10 based on the ISI Web of Knowledge.

- Topic of the article must be clearly relevant to disease-related neurosciences

- Affiliation of the first author in a call partner country as stated in the publication.

Application

See application form

One page summary addressing the significance of the work
Short biosketch (maximum of one page for each first author)
PDF of the article

In case of interest please contact with FSJD Research Department no later than October 24th.