IBRO Grants Overview
IBRO provides a broad range of grants and funding opportunities to support neuroscience around the world.
Career Development

Collaborative Research Grants foster international collaboration between emerging and/or established research groups.

Exchange Fellowships enable early-career neuroscientists to broaden the scope of their neuroscience training by conducting goal-directed laboratory visits.

FENS/IBRO-PERC Early Career Training Program offers a unique opportunity for early-career researchers to participate in hands-on training at leading laboratories..

FENS/IBRO-PERC Exchange Fellowships aims to foster methodological training by supporting goal-directed laboratory visits in established European laboratories.

FENS Schools Network: IBRO-PERC Stipends program aims to support MSc and PhD neuroscience students in Europe to participate in NENS schools.

IBRO-supported Training offers structured educational programs in neuroscience for scientists from different parts of the world.

Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator For Mental Health aims to enhance research related to mental health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Neuroscience Training Grants help early career neuroscientists cover the costs of attending neuroscience training courses.

Parenthood Grants ensure continuity for scientific projects run by early-career researchers approaching parental leave.

Rising Stars Awards offer substantial support for early career investigators setting up new laboratories.

Travel Grants support the participation of PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, and early career investigators in international neuroscience meetings and events.
Event Organization

Equitable Meeting Awards provide ear-marked funding for DEI and/or early career activities or sessions linked to the main conferences of IBRO’s scientific member societies.

IBRO Fund for Undergraduate Research Internship Programs promotes diversity in neuroscience by supporting research internships for underrepresented minority undergraduates.

IBRO/Dana Brain Awareness Week Grants support activities increasing awareness about the brain and neuroscience research, by funding outreach and awareness campaigns.

Schools Support enables the organization of schools on varying themes with emphasis on training those from economically disadvantaged countries.

Seeding Neuroscience Grants aim to support the development of emerging neuroscience societies or thematic networks.

Speaker Support aims to support organizers in facilitating the participation of speakers from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in smaller neuroscience events.
- Browse our Grants Calendar for more information about the calls for applications.
- Check out IBRO-supported activities in our Events Calendar and Events Map.