FEBS National Lectures

FEBS supports plenary lectures (usually five per year) to enhance the scientific meetings of its Constituent Societies, through FEBS National Lecture awards. Established to commemorate the 40th anniversary of FEBS, these enable a distinguished scientist with a significant international reputation for fundamental contributions to the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology who is working in a different FEBS country to the one hosting the event to present a lecture at the meeting, by supporting the speaker’s travel costs. Full further details, see the FEBS National Lectures guidelines. Applications for National Lectures to take place in 2025 are open.

2025 FEBS National Lectures

• Norwegian Bioscience Society (NBS) Contact Meeting, Røros, Norway 23-26.1.2025
  Lecturer: Dagmar Wachten (Bonn, Germany)
• 47th Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), Cáceres, Spain
  2-5.9.2025
  Lecturer: Dr. Paola Pizzo (Padova, Italy)

2024 FEBS National Lectures

• Norwegian Bioscience Society (NBS) Contact Meeting, Storefjell, Norway 18-21.1.2024
  Lecturer: Graça Raposo (Paris, France)
• 33rd International Congress of the Tunisian Association of Biological Sciences (ATSB), Sousse, Tunisia 21-24.6.24
  Lecturer: Ivana Ivančić Baće (Zagreb, Croatia)
• 46th SEBBM National Congress, A Coruña, Spain 3-6.9.2024
  Lecturer: Masashi Narita (Cambridge, UK)
• Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica Fenniae (Biobio Society) National Conference; 25-28.9.2024; Pula, Croatia (part of FEBS 3+ Meeting)
  Lecturer: Boris Turk (Ljubljana, Slovenia) cancelled
• Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM) Compact Meeting; 26-27.9.2024; Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Lecturer: Wanda Kukulski (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire (SFBBM) SifrARN Meeting; 18-20.11.2024; Lyon, France
  Lecturer: Maria Carmo-Fonseca (Lisbon, Portugal)
• 74th Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (HSBMB); 13-15.12.2024; Thessaloniki, Greece
  Lecturer: Michael N. Hall (Basel, Switzerland)

FEBS3+ Meetings

The FEBS3+ Meetings programme was established by FEBS to support scientific meetings, equivalent to an annual national scientific meeting of a Constituent Society, but organized through collaboration of at least three FEBS Constituent Societies. The aim of the programme is to increase international collaboration between molecular life scientists in a subset of countries within the FEBS area, such as those in a particular region or linked in other ways, while also encouraging sharing of Society expertise and efforts. These events (a maximum of two per year) should be scientific meetings with symposia and colloquia corresponding to the format of an annual national scientific meeting of a Constituent Society. The support is €20,000, with €10,000 awarded to the host Society for general organization purposes to cover lecturers’ travel expenses, accommodation, congress venue renting and so on, and a second €10,000 awarded for a 3+ travel award scheme to attract young scientists living outside the host country who are members of the two (or more) collaborating Societies. For further details, see the FEBS3+ Meetings guidelines.  Applications for meetings taking place in 2025 are now closed. 

2025 FEBS3+ Meetings

• 2025: “FEBS 3+ Baltics: Biochemistry at the Fore Line”; Lithuanian Biochemical Society LBS (organizer and host), with EBS (Estonia) and LaBS (Latvia) societies; 23-25.4.2025; Vilnius, Lithuania
• 2025: ‘FEBS3+ Meeting: Unlocking the Secrets of Life’ XXVIII Congress; Czech Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ČSBMB (organizer and host), with SSBMB (Slovakia), PT Bioch (Poland) and GBM (Germany) societies; 7-10.9.2025; Prague, Czech Republic
• 2025: FEBS 3+ Meeting joint scientific Congress; Serbian Biochemical Society SBS (organizer and host), with HDBMB (Croatia), SBD (Slovenia) and ABMBBIH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) societies; 24-27.9.2025; Belgrade, Serbia

2024 FEBS3+ Meetings

• 2024: FEBS 3+ Meeting: Exploring Molecular Frontiers joint scientific congress; Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, HDBMB (organizer and host), with SFBBM (Sweden) and BIOBIO (Finland) societies; 25-28.9.2024; Pula, Croatia

FEBS Open Bio poster prizes at society meetings

The journal FEBS Open Bio would like to offer all FEBS Constituent Societies the opportunity to award a 200€ poster prize at their respective national meetings to be held in 2024. Please contact the journal directly at [email protected] if you would be interested in presenting a FEBS Open Bio poster prize at an upcoming meeting.

FEBS Constituent Society outreach events for FEBS 60th Anniversary

In its 60th anniversary year, FEBS has offered grants of up to €1,300 to its Constituent Societies to support interesting events or activities that highlight the impact and contributions of molecular life sciences, following a call for proposals earlier in 2024. The events/activities are taking various forms, and will be gradually announced on the FEBS 60th Anniversary page here.

FEBS-SUPPORTED Education EVENTS

FEBS supports its Constituent Societies’ education and training activities in the molecular life sciences at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Examples include the FEBS Education and Training Supported Society Events, with FEBS sponsorship of education events organized by members of FEBS Constituent Societies, and the FEBS Education and Training Joint Workshops co-organized between FEBS and its Constituent Societies. For more details on these and other FEBS Education and Training events and activities, visit the Education/Training page.

FEBS-SUPPORTED Science and Society Events/Activities

The FEBS Science and Society Committee supports events or other activities of FEBS Constituent Societies that build on and extend to a wider audience the topic of the Science and Society session at the most recent FEBS Congress. The exact format of the event/activity is up to the organizing society and the Committee would like to support a range of activities from speaker events to educational activities, including for public engagement. Up to €1500 is available from FEBS to support this activity. Events or activities which involve more than one FEBS Constituent Society or which enable the sharing of an activity across Constituent Societies are encouraged. Societies who wish to apply should check the current theme and further guidelines on the Science and Society webpage here.

FEBS Patronage

FEBS Patronage is offered to FEBS Constituent Societies’ own activities to help with their promotion to participants and with obtaining other sources of support. It is intended to recognize activities with a high scientific or other value in line with FEBS’ charitable objectives. Applications for FEBS Patronage can be made where the Constituent Society’s event or activity may not be eligible for the other existing support initiatives offered by FEBS. FEBS Patronage may be granted to a range of activities organized by FEBS Constituent Societies, including national and international scientific events. Patronage cannot be granted to individual persons, organizations themselves and permanent activities. A letter of application should be submitted with full details of the event or activity and for full further details, see the FEBS Patronage guidelines.