IBRO Seeding Neuroscience Grants 2025-2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Applications are open for the IBRO Seeding Neuroscience Grants 2025-2026. The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Seeding Neuroscience Grants are designed to supply vital monetary help for inaugural actions, reminiscent of governance planning or strategic workshops, that mark step one towards constructing a proper nationwide or regional society or thematic community.

In addition to the institution of nationwide or regional neuroscience societies, this program additionally welcomes functions from teams aiming to kind new formal sub-societies or thematic networks (e.g., computational neuroscience, glial analysis) that don’t but exist as acknowledged our bodies. The purpose is to empower native organizations or teams of neuroscientists to return collectively, develop shared targets, and set up the governance constructions essential to help a sustainable and interactive neuroscience group of their area. 

Grants

The most grant quantity an applicant can request varies based mostly on the area the place the proposed exercise is situated and is decided by the corresponding IBRO Regional Committee. Note the utmost grant quantities under:

• Asia-Pacific: $2,000 USD
• Africa: $5,000 USD
• Latin America: $4,000 USD

Eligibility

Applications are welcomed from teams of scientists or organizations working in the direction of the formation of a proper neuroscience society or thematic community. Eligible candidates embrace:

• Emerging neuroscience societies (not but formally established) or teams actively planning the formation of a society.
• Groups based mostly in areas with little or no formal construction for neuroscience change.
• Applicants with clear, actionable plans to launch a proper society or thematic community and promote scientific engagement of their area.
• Applications might be submitted by a bunch of scientists or a company representing the pursuits of the neuroscience group within the area.

Review Criteria

Applications will probably be assessed by IBRO’s Regional Committees based mostly on the next standards:

• Relevance and influence potential for creating a neuroscience society or thematic community within the area
• Clear and achievable goals
• Well structured and justified funds
• Demonstrated want for scientific infrastructure and change within the area
• Viable plans for sustainability and group constructing past the exercise  

Application

A robust application ought to current a transparent imaginative and prescient for the proposed actions and the lengthy-time period growth of the society or thematic community. Required parts embrace:

• Applicant Organization or Group Overview
  • Mission, imaginative and prescient and key goals
  • Geographic scope (nationwide, regional), distribution and variety of members
• Activity Description
  • Title and proposed dates of the exercise 
  • Format (in-individual or hybrid)
  • Location (metropolis, nation) and rationale for its choice, particularly within the context of regional wants
  • Goals, goals, and anticipated outcomes of the exercise  (e.g. launching a society, figuring out governance constructions, networking)
  • Target viewers and estimated variety of contributors
  • Detailed description of the exercise’s  content material and construction
• Provisional Program
  • Draft schedule or agenda
  • Composition of the organizing committee
  • List of confirmed or invited attendees together with full title, skilled affiliation and position within the proposed exercise
  • CVs of invited attendees for whom IBRO funding is being requested
• Budget
  • An in depth funds breakdown displaying how IBRO funds will probably be used
  • Clearly outlined classes and justifications for every expense (see above for eligible/ineligible prices)
• Long-Term Sustainability Plan
  • A concrete plan for the formation and governance of the brand new society or thematic community
  • Strategies for sustaining momentum submit-exercise , together with observe-up actions and funding plans
  • Any current initiatives that help the event of the neuroscience group
• Letters of Support 
  • At least one letter from native or worldwide neuroscience our bodies, educational establishments, or different related stakeholders supporting the exercise or the event of a regional neuroscience society or thematic community
• Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
  • Description of how gender steadiness, profession stage variety and regional illustration will probably be ensured in planning and participation
• IBRO Visibility
  • Plans for recognizing IBRO’s help earlier than and in the course of the exercise  (e.g. promotional supplies, slides, acknowledgements)

Create an applicant account here.

For extra data, see FAQ and go to IBRO Seeding Neurosicence Grants.