The EMBO Courses & Workshops Programme funds more than 90 events with over 11,000 participants a year. As part of a series providing a look behind the scenes of EMBO events, three organisers share their top tips.
Each year, the EMBO Courses & Workshops Committee considers around 170 proposals, and funds in excess of 50% of them, based on three overarching criteria: an exciting and timely topic that isn’t being covered elsewhere; 30% or more female speakers; and timetabling of extensive networking opportunities. If the application is for a repeat meeting, good participant feedback is also important.
It began with an invitation from Kolkata. The Bose Institute had invited EMBO Council Member Victor de Lorenzo from the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain, to give a lecture as part of the institute’s 100th anniversary celebrations.
Ahead of a roundtable discussion between life scientists and the ERC Scientific Council, Maria Leptin reflects on the importance of providing feedback to create a European research environment that serves the needs of the community.
Green OA might look appealing at first, but if we want OA to work in a sustainable manner for papers in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, it has to be gold, not green.
Non-coding RNAs make up huge regulatory networks that tune cellular processes. The organisers of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium “The non-coding genome” discuss the emergence of the field and where it is going.
EMBO | EuropaBio Fellowships are offered in partnership with the European Association for Bioindustries (EuropaBio)
“I applied for a Policy Lecture Grant because I think it is important to give students attending a [scientific] course a wider idea of science, and that includes science policy,” says Pascale Cossart. The microbiologist, who heads the Bacteria–Cell Interactions Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, captures the essence of the EMBO Policy Lecture Scheme.