"Placido ILLIANO"
GRANT 2025
Deadline April 30, 2025
The application is now closed
The BraYn Association will award “Placido Illiano” Grant to qualified young researchers who wish to pursue a short-term research stay in a different laboratory or attend a scientific or practical course in Italy or abroad.
Important: This grant is NOT intended for conferences or congresses.
Financial Support
Funding (up to € 500, based on reimbursement of expenses) can be used to cover:
- Travel costs
- Accommodation
- Registration fees (for courses or schools)
Eligibility criteria
- PhD students;
- Postdocs under 40;
- The applicant must be a member of the BraYn Association. *
* To become a member of the BraYn Association, please complete the BraYn Membership application form before applying for the Grant: → BraYn Membership application form.
Application Requirements
- A short cover letter, including contact details and motivation for attending the course/school or visiting another lab;
- For a lab visit: an acceptance letter from the host institution;
- For a course/school: information related to the selected experience (e.g., website, flyer);
- 1-page CV;
- List of publications;
- One letter of recommendation.
Deadline and Selection Process
- Incomplete or late applications (after the deadline) will NOT be considered.
- Applications MUST be sent via email to: info@braynassociation.com.
- Deadline: April 30, 2025, at 00:00 (CET).
The Executive Board of the BraYn Association will evaluate the applications, and winners will be announced by May 31, 2025.
The BraYn Association Ets has established the BraYn Trainee Travel Grant in memory of Placido Illiano.
Placido was a brilliant young neuroscientist working at the University of Miami. After attending the first two BraYn editions, he embraced the BraYn project and joined our team, thus contributing to the success of BraYn 2020 and 2021.
We will never forget his wonderful smile, his enthusiasm, and his commitment to science, as well as his help in improving the quality and excellence of the BraYn conference. He will always be remembered by those who knew him as a caring, friendly and hard-working man. With this grant, Placido will be forever engraved in our collective memory.