Also for the year 2012, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) has announced a call for applications for the "Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience".

In 2012, BMBF will confer the seventh annual Bernstein Award to excellent junior scientists with outstanding research ideas in the field of Computational Neuroscience.

The "Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience" is endowed with up to 1.25 Mio € for a period of five years, and allows young scientists from all nations to establish an independent research group at a German university or research institution.

Application deadline: May 2nd, 2012

Official BMBF announcement: www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/en/2476.php