Our Activities
As a charitable academic organization, FEBS offers extensive and innovative support for the advance of biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, cell biology and related disciplines by:
- offering four international scientific journals – FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, Molecular Oncology and FEBS Open Bio – for rapid and high-quality dissemination of research findings and analysis
- facilitating bioscience research communication and education across the whole of molecular life sciences at our large annual Congress
- funding an annual Young Scientists’ Forum, for scientific exchange and support for career development
- offering Advanced Courses on focused bioscience research topics throughout the FEBS area, for research updates, networking, education and training
- aiding participation of early-career scientists at these events through, for example, FEBS Congress Bursaries and Advanced Courses Youth Travel Fund grants
- providing various types of Fellowships for pre-and post-doctoral bioscientists, to facilitate research, training and mobility
- organizing workshops on biochemistry and molecular biology education
- following and making recommendations on European science policy and organizing science and society workshops
- awarding prizes and medals in recognition of scientific distinction
- supporting science in disadvantaged economies of the FEBS area
- supporting women in science
- enhancing national scientific meetings by supporting Constituent Society events through FEBS3+ and National Lecture programmes
- sponsoring worldwide lectures at bioscience society meetings across the globe
- providing updates on FEBS programmes, news from the FEBS community and Constituent Societies, and events and job listings via the FEBS website and FEBS News
Further details on the work of FEBS can be found in the various sections of this website (follow navigation on right of this page), and recent updates are collated in FEBS News. For notification when a new issue of FEBS News is out, please sign up to our e-newsletter via the box on the lower right of this page.