Prof'dr' Harry W'M' Steinbusch

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European PhD. Is there a need for ECTS
credits?'

• Prof.dr. Harry W.M. Steinbusch
• Maastricht University
• The Netherlands
• www.euronschool.net

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• Director Prof.dr. Harry W.M. Steinbusch
• web sites www.euronschool.net
• www.euron.unimaas.nl

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Ten Universities collaborating in the area of
Neuroscience

• Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Université de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Universiteit van Hasselt, Belgium
• Université de Liège, Belgium
• Universiteit van Leuven, Belgium
• Université de Louvain, Belgium
• RWTH Universität Aachen, Germany
• Universität Bonn, Germany
• Universität Homburg/ Saarland, Germany
• Universität Köln, Germany

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• EURON has been formulated with the aim to provide
  an optimal educational program for Master and
  Ph.D.- students on the domain of experimental and
  clinical neuroscience.
• EURON is currently expanding and building an even
  stronger international network both in Europe as
  well as with three separate links to North
  America, Japan, China and India.

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The major focus is on Neurodegenerative Diseases

• - Parkinsons Disease
• - Alzheimers Disease
• - Cerebrovascular Disturbances (Stroke)
• Schizophrenia
• Depression
• Spinal cord lesions

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• 135 Ph.D. students and 70 Marie Curie Fellows
• Euron has become a Marie Curie Training Site
  under the FP5 and FP6.
• It received Euro 985k, which equals 388 Ph.D.
  months and 2.8 m which equals 580 Ph.D. months
  and 7.3 m as additional EU-support.
• All fellowships have been spread over the network.

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• - Courses provided using Problem Oriented
  Teaching
• - Once a year a two/ three EURON Ph.D.-days in
  which all Ph.D.-students will give a
  presentation of 15 minutes.
• Masterclasses of 3 days with various
  themes Psychopharmacology
• Stem Cells
• Stereology
• Cognition and Neurogenesis
• Depression
• Deep Brain Stimulation

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• All courses are attended by about 40 60
  students, of which 30 from EURON and the other
  from outside.
• They are organised according to the Problem
  Oriented Teaching principle as strictly
  formulated by Maastricht University.

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• Criteria for an EURON-certificate
• - 4-5 first author publications with an average
  impact factor of the top 25 of the research
  area.
• - An international research elective of minimal 3
  months within or outside EURON
• - 60 creditpoints (1 creditpoint equals 8 hours)
• 10 points for attending the obligatory general
  course Introduction to Brain and Behavior in
  their first year
• 8 points for attending Ph.D.-days
• 12 points for attending courses
• 9 points for attending general courses
• 15 points for attending meetings
• 6 points for public awarness

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New projects

• Integration of the accreditated national Master
  in Psychobiology and Experimental Psychology
  within de faculties of Medicine, Psychology and
  Health Sciences at Maastricht University.
• - International European Master in Neuroscience
  between the Universities of Maastricht, The
  Netherlands, Liège, Belgium and Cologne, Germany.

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International exchange programmes

• - Indian Society for Neuroscience
• - Canada 3 provinces with 3 european nations
• (BC, Qc, NS and NL, BE and D)
• - Japan Friends of the Kansai Region
• (sponsored by Philips and Panasonic)

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Funding opportunities

• - Within FP-6 programme as MC-EST, IP, NE
• Joint venture with industries as educational
  partner
• DSM, Numico, Medtronic, Netherlands
• Bayer, Germany
• Aventis, France
• Johnson Johnson, Belgium

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FENS Federation of European Neuroscience
Societies- NENS is the educational part of
FENS- It comprises 86 european graduate schools
in the field of Neuroscience.

• www.euronschool.net

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• NENS is the ideal environment for Master and
  Ph.D.-students to work abroad according to the
  Bologna and Berlin principle.
• Currently NENS is collecting all information on
  specialized courses in the field of Neurosciences
  throughout the FENS-network.

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• Like the ECTS system for Master-programmes a
  similar system could be adopted for the European
  Ph.D-programmes.

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European Certificate as an extra stimulating
award to the local certificate or diploma.This
European Certificate should enable mobility of
Master and Ph.D.-students within Europe.

• www.euronschool.net

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• Director Prof.dr. Harry W.M. Steinbusch
• web sites www.euronschool.net
• www.euron.unimaas.nl

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Ten Universities collaborating in the area of
Neuroscience

• Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Université de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Universiteit van Hasselt, Belgium
• Université de Liège, Belgium
• Universiteit van Leuven, Belgium
• Université de Louvain, Belgium
• RWTH Universität Aachen, Germany
• Universität Bonn, Germany
• Universität Homburg/ Saarland, Germany
• Universität Köln, Germany