Checklist

Please make sure to have gathered all required information below before you start your application.

Marked (*) items are mandatory.

• Personal information (contact details, …)*
• Curriculum vitae (submitted as a separate file, max 3 pages, pdf format) *
• List of publications in peer-reviewed journals (no meeting abstracts, supply list in PubMed format)
• First author presentations (up to six) at meetings (with co-authors and titles)
• Motivation for attending this course (about 300 words)*
• Research interests and background relevant for attending this Cajal course (about 300 words)*
• Briefly provide your background in programming and math (max. 200 words). Remember that a crash-course is offered the week before the course starts.
• Stipend requested (provide arguments for stipend, 200 words), if applicable
• Two referees (Full name, e-mail)* (the referees will receive an e-mail asking them to support your application. Please make sure that your referees fill in the form that will be sent to them, as your application will be considered as incomplete if they don't.)

Do not forget to click on the "Submit application" button

In order to validate your application, click on the "Submit your application" button.

After clicking the submission button, you will be notified by email that your application was successfully registered. Please contact info@cajal-training.org if you don't receive a confirmation within 24 hours. Also make sure that your email address has been correctly entered in the form.

Please note that after submitting your application, you will not be able to modify your entries anymore.

Please click only once on the "Submit application" button. If you wish to modify data inside your application form, please contact info@cajal-training.org.

*This is an eligibility criteria for one of our partners' grant. This is the date when you obtrained your high school diploma/secondary school leaving certificate (e.g. Abitur, Baccalaureate, A-Levels) or, where applicable, university entrance test (e.g. SAT/ACT, PAU, YGS/LYS, Joint Entrance Examination etc.).

IMPORTANT: Check the FENS website for correct formatting of your publication list!

To help us tailor the training to your needs, please complete this supplemental background survey (open in a new tab).

Your responses will allow the course directors to assess the group's current knowledge and adapt the technical content and depth to ensure the most relevant experience for everyone.

About 20 students will be selected to attend the CAJAL course and CAJAL stipends may be available in the form of waived registration fee, depending on external sponsorships.

Participants are also encouraged to find their own funding via Associations, Societies, etc.

For further details on stipends, click here.

Kindly note that if you benefited from a Cajal stipend in the past, you are no longer eligible to receive this type of funding. However other types of funding (such as partial travel grants from sponsors) might be made available after the participants selection process, depending on the course.

Indicate two referees. The referees will receive an email asking them to rate your application.

It is important that you make sure that your referees:
- are aware of your request for recommendation
- received the email with the form 
- fill in the form that will be sent to them

If no form is submitted, your application will be considered as incomplete.

The referees have two days after the set applications deadline to fill in their form.

Finally, please help us improve our courses and taylor them to the needs of neuroscientists like you, by answering a few questions.

Thank you for answering this short survey

Please do not forget to answer this supplemental background survey.

Your responses will allow the course directors to assess the group's current knowledge and adapt the technical content and depth to ensure the most relevant experience for everyone.