Grants & Awards

Bursaries

The 11th Congress of the EAN offers up to 240 bursaries consisting of free registration to the congress and up to four nights of hotel accommodation. Bursaries on the topic of Movement disorders are co-sponsored by MDS-ES.
 

Eligibility

Eligible are EAN Resident and Research Members or Student Members from EAN member countries. Please see our EAN Resident and Research membership or Student membership packages for further information. If your membership application has not yet been confirmed, we kindly request to hold off submitting abstracts until your membership is valid. Note that it may take up to 10 working days for your application to be approved.

RRFS and Student Members from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Nepal, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia can apply for bursaries.
 

Application

If you wish to apply for bursaries, please do so during abstract submission. The bursary check box is only selectable during abtract submission when the selected presenting author is either an active EAN RRFS or Student Member.

Applications for bursaries will only be considered if submitted by the time of the abstract submission deadline (16 January). Please keep in mind that only one bursary per abstract will be awarded to the presenting author indicated during submission.
 

Selection

Bursary recipients will be selected based on abstract evaluation carried out by the Programme Committee.
Applicants who have been granted a bursary will be informed before the lapse of the early registration fee deadline.

The prize is not transferable and will not be paid off in cash.
Not utilising the bursary may prevent you from applying for future bursary opportunities.
 

Who can join as a Resident & Research Member?
  • Residents/neurologists in training
  • Research Fellows
  • PhD students in Neurology
  • The abovementioned three groups up to a maximum of 3 years beyond their latest degree (MD, PhD)

Because it is our goal to promote neurology across the world in the RRFS, we invite you to join us as a Resident & Research Member no matter which country you come from.
Become an EAN Resident and Research Member now!
 

 

EAN Tournament Finals

On behalf of the Programme Committee, we are glad to announce the annual Tournament for Neurologists in Training for the EAN Congress 2025 in Helsinki! Join us for the Tournament session and watch 10 of the most exemplary basic and clinical abstracts submitted for this year's EAN Congress, all conveniently accessible through the live broadcast on EAN TV!
 

Session format
Programme Schedule:  Saturday, 21 June 2025
Duration: up to 90 minutes
Chairs:4 chairs who are all tournament evaluators
Total number of presenters:up to 10 speakers (5x Clinical and 5x Basic) 
Time per speaker:5 minutes (3-minute spotlight presentation + 2-minute Q&A)

Presentation

The top speakers in the new EAN Tournament Finals share their studies without a fancy presentation or a lectern – only a spotlight and a microphone at the centre stage! The finalists are given strictly 5 minutes on stage. Three minutes to share their study and approximately two minutes to answer questions from the session chairs or from the audience.
 

Jury

A panel of experts will score all presenters on the scientific interest of the presentation, relevance of reported data, methodology used, statistical analysis, quality of results, presentation skills, quality of presentation, logical build-up of presentation, and ability to adequately answer questions. Winners and runners-up will be announced at the end of the session.
 

Financial support

Candidates selected for the tournament will receive a bursary consisting of free registration to the Congress, up to four nights’ hotel accommodation, and a travel grant.
 

Prize

The winner of each group will receive a prize consisting of: free registration to the 12th EAN Congress in Geneva 2026, up to four nights’ hotel accommodation, a travel grant, as well as a certificate.

The runner-up of each group will receive a prize consisting of: free registration to the 12th EAN Congress in Geneva 2026 and a certificate.

Prizes are not transferable and will not be paid off in cash.

More information on application and selection

Eligible are EAN Resident and Research Members or students from EAN member countries. For further information, please check our EAN RRFS and student membership packages here.​​​​​​​ The participant must be first author of the abstract submitted. During abstract submission, candidates must state that they wish to participate in the tournament and select a group, clinical or basic. Applications will be accepted until the abstract submission deadline, i.e. 16 January 2025 23:59 CET.

The EAN Programme Committee selects up to 6 candidates for each tournament group based on the contents of the abstracts submitted. The clinical subjects must be received from authors who work in Europe and thus carry out their projects in Europe. For the basic science session, clinical relevance will be weighted.
 Candidates who have been selected will be contacted within days of abstract acceptance.

Please indicate your tournament application during abstract submission. Applicants must be EAN Resident and Research Members!
Application deadline: 16 January 2025 23:59 CET.

•    Residents/neurologists in training
 •   Research Fellows
 •   PhD students in Neurology
 •   The abovementioned three groups up to a maximum of 3 years beyond their latest degree (MD, PhD)
 
Because it is our goal to promote neurology across the world in the RRFS, we invite you to join us as a Resident & Research Member no matter which country you come from.

Become an EAN Resident and Research Member now!

 

For EAN it is essential that individuals in training for neurology and neurologists in their early career who have prepared their own work —and had it submitted and accepted for presentation at the congress—have the opportunity to present it and to take part in the annual EAN congress. 

Quite often, this is not possible due to limited financial resources. For this reason, it is in EAN’s interest to reward applicants with the best abstracts, bursaries valued up to 4-night accommodation and a free registration to the Congress corresponding to € 1.150,-.