Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)

This grant continues support for the FENS-Dana Foundation Brain Awareness Week grants program in Europe. The program provides grants of up to €1000 each for outreach and engagement activities organized in celebration of the 2024 Brain Awareness Week campaign. 

FENS disseminates the call for applications to their 22,000 member neuroscientists, as well as past grantees, ensuring a diversity of applicants and a competitive selection process, funding the best ideas and most innovative approaches to neuroscience outreach and engagement. The heightened activity in regions across Europe and the social media attention generated by participants amplifies the importance of neuroscience and results in increased visibility to Brain Awareness Week, FENS, and the Dana Foundation. 

The FENS-Dana grantees are required to report on the results of their activities at the close of the 2024 campaign, and their reports are posted on both FENS and Dana Foundation websites as a resource for prospective grantees and other Brain Awareness Week event organizers. 

This grant supports the Dana Education objective to empower people of all ages to use neuroscience in their everyday lives by strengthening their knowledge of the field’s real-world applications and ethical considerations through sustained informal education programs.