Fellowships, Grants and Awards

EANS Spine Fellowships, Sponsored by Synthes

Application Deadline 31st May 2010

This year, Synthes have once again generously endowed five two month Spinal Fellowships.

The fellowships offer a great opportunity to further your training in this specialist field, as the comment below, from a previous fellow, indicates:

In the two months I participated in more than 50 operations, mostly complex spinal procedures including stabilization, disc prothesis (cervical and lumbal), transthoracic approaches to the thoracic spine, etc. I was given the opportunity to join ward-rounds and meetings regularly and discuss complex and interesting cases with my supervisor and the other staff of the clinic.
 
My supervisor assigned me a small scientific project which finally resulted in a manuscript currently under review in Spine.  The working atmosphere in the clinic was very good. I was warmly welcomed and integrated in the team right from the beginning of my time there. Summarizing I can say that my fellowhip was not only very educative, but likewise a very pleasant and interesting experience.
 
Sven R. Kantelhardt, MD
EANS/Synthes Spine Fellow, 2009

The application form and guidelines are available below – please contact either Petra Ernestova or Susie Hide should you have any queries.

Application form and Application guidelines

Further Information - Website

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The Brain Prize

The EANS would like to bring the attention to an important new prize, which aims to recognise highly original and influential advances in brain research. Nominations for the award should be made by 13th September 2010 - for further information, please see the prize website www.thebrainprize.org

If several researchers have contributed significantly to an achievement, more than one individual may be nominated. Nominees can be of any nationality but the research for which they are nominated must have been conducted in Europe or in collaboration with researchers in Europe.

This Prize is intended to raise the visibility of European neuroscience and to be a stimulus to this important field of research.

Full details of the nomination process are available from the website mentioned above.

Aesculap EANS Research Prize

Application Deadline - 28th February 2010!

Last year, Braun Aesculap very generously endowed a further award; two awards of €5000 are now available, one for the best clinical research paper and another for the best laboratory research paper.
 
The prizes together with the prize money will be presented during the EANS Annual Meeting in March 2010 in Groningen, where the winners will be invited to present their work.
 
Eligibility Criteria:
 
• Neurosurgeons under the age of 40
• Either fully trained or in the course of training
• Members of one of the national societies of the EANS or working in one of the EANS member 
  countries
• Manuscripts submitted should contain research work − clinical or laboratory − relevant to the 
  field of neuroscience
• Author should make a declaration stating that she/he has performed more than 50% of the
  work, and that such work was done mainly in Europe
• Letter to this effect from the candidate's head of department should be attached
• Both manuscripts that have been submitted for publication during the same calendar year,  and
  unpublished studies are accepted for evaluation
• Format and type of manuscript must be comparable to those presented for publication in Acta
  Neurochirurgica
• Applicant must send his/her entry in the form of a pdf document of a maximum size of 5MB with
  a brief Curriculum Vitae to Petra Ernestova by 28th February 2010.