Support for Constituent Society Events

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.

2020 National Lectures:
• 56th NBS Contact Meeting 2020 Voss, Norway 23-26.1.2020 Lecturer: Dr Pavel Tomancak (Dresden, Germany)
• French SFBBM and French Societe de Genetique (SFG) first Conference: Genetic Code, Mechanisms, Evolution and Engineering, Strasbourg, France 26-28.3.2020 Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Nawrot (Lodz, Poland)

2019 National Lectures:
​• Norwegian Biochemical Society annual Contact Meeting, Røros, Norway 24-27.1.2019
Lecturer: Prof. Primo Leo Schär (Basel, Switzerland)
• Estonian Biochemical Society meeting, Riga, Latvia 17-19.6.2019
​Lecturer: Prof. Roslyn M Bill (Aston, UK)
• 13th Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society, Dobrna, Slovenia 24-27.9.2019 Lecturer: Prof. Petra Schwille (Martinsreid, Germany)
• Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual congress 'HDBMB 2019 - Crossroads in Life Sciences', Lovran, Croatia 25-28.9.2019 Lecturer: Prof. Sven B Gould (Düsseldorf, Germany)
• NVBMB Fall Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2.10.2019 Lecturer: Prof. Karim Labib (Dundee, UK)
• 30th National Congress together with the 27th Meeting of the Balkan Clinical Laboratory Federation, Antalya, Turkey 27-31.10.2019 Lecturer: Prof. Jerka Dumić (Zagreb, Croatia)
• Serbian Biochemistry Society IX Conference "Diversity in Biochemistry", Belgrade, Serbia 14-16.11.2019 Lecturer: Dr Dejana Mokranac (Munich, Germany)
• 70th National Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (HSBMB), Athens, Greece 29.11-1.12.2019 Lecturer: Prof. Sabine Werner (Zurich, Switzerland)

2018 National Lectures:
​• 11th SifrARN 2018 meeting, Nancy, France 6-8.11.18 Lecturer: Prof. Reinhard Lührmann (Munich, Germany)
• Turkish Biochemical Society 29th National Congress, Bodrum, Turkey 26-30.10.18 
Lecturer: Prof. Andrey Abramov (London, UK)
• SIB and the XV Congress of the Italian Federation of Life Sciences, Rome, Italy 18-21.9.18 
Lecturer: Prof. Luis Serrano Pubul (Barcelona, Spain)​
• NVBMB Fall Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 12.9.18 Lecturer: Prof. Naama Barkai (Rehovot, Israel)
• Slovenian Biochemistry Society national meeting, Siofok, Hungary 2-5.9.18 Lecturer: Prof. Jernej Ule (London, UK)
• XIV International Conference of the Lithuanian Biochemical Society, Dubingiai, Lithuania 26-29.6.18 
Lecturer: Prof. Martin Bachmann (Bern, Switzerland)
• LS² Annual Meeting 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland 12-13.2.18 Lecturer: Prof. Andrea Ballabio, Italy

FEBS3+ Meetings

The FEBS3+ Meetings programme was established by FEBS to support scientific meetings, equivalent to an annual national scientific meeting of a Consituent Society, but organised 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. In 2017 the support was €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+ 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. The deadline for applications for meetings in 2021 is 1st June 2020.

FEBS 3+ meetings:
2020: Machines on Genes meeting (Biochemical Society, UK organiser) with NVBMB (Netherlands) and SEBBM (Spain) 3-7 May 2020 Alicante, Spain
2020: LS² Annual Meeting (Switzerland, organiser) with GBM (Germany) and ÖGMBT (Austria) 13-14.2.20 Zurich, Switzerland
2019: LaBS (Latvia, organiser) with LBD (Lithuania) and EBS (Estonia) 17-21.6.19 Riga, Latvia
2018: MBKE (Hungary, organiser) with SBD (Slovenia), HDBMB (Croatia) and SBS (Serbia) 2-5.9.18 Siofok, Hungary
2018: 11th Parnas Conference: UBS (Ukraine, organiser) with ISBMB (Israel) and PTBioch (Poland) 2-5.9.18 Kiev, Ukraine
2017: SEBBM (Spain, organiser) with SFBBM (France) and SPB (Portugal) 23-26.10.17 Barcelona, Spain
2016: 10th Parnas Conference: PTBioch (organiser) with UBS (Ukraine) and ISBMB (Israel) 10-12.7.16 Wroclaw, Poland

FEBS Education Workshops

The FEBS Education Committee has developed workshops that can be co-organized with FEBS Consitutent Societies to promote high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate education in the molecular life sciences in different countries of the FEBS area. These cover a range of topical issues of interest to both educators and young scientists, including post-graduate education, problem-based learning, designing laboratory practicals, and key scientific skills. For recent and upcoming education workshops, please refer to the Education page of the FEBS website; for more information for Constituent Societies interested in hosting education workshops, or other education queries, please contact Gül Güner Akdogan, Chair, FEBS Education Committee, via the Contact Us section of the website. 

FEBS 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 €2000 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.