AFRICA
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Nairobi,
Kenya
A brain bee
competition/event that provides a local/regional platform for the International
Brain Bee Competition. 80 rural and urban high school students in Kenya
and 20 University/Tertiary college students will participate in the brain
bee competition. Career lecture on research opportunities in different
fields of neuroscience, both in the developed and resource limited settings. |
Organizer:
Nchafatso Gikenyi Obonyo
Grant: 1000
euros
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Zaria,
Nigeria
This event
at the Ahmadu Bello University is for students and the general public.
Around 500 people are expected to attend a day of seminars on the brain.
The focus will be the effects of drugs on the brain and explanations of
common brain disorders as ignorance of evokes prejudice in this region. |
Organizer:
Mr Ogboi Sonny Johnbull
Grant: 400
euros
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Ile-Ife,
Nigeria
These events
will be held for groups of secondary school students and teachers, the
general public and especially motor cycle drivers and industry workers.
The main aim is to raise the knowledge of the effects of head injury on
the brain. The events in many schools will be publicised and supported
by TV and radio coverage.The organizers also intend to translate the Booklet
“Neuroscience the Science of the Brain" into the local language Igbo and
distribute it at their event. |
Organizer:
Prof Polycarp Nwoha
Grant: 1000
euros
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Calabar,
Nigeria
This will be
a relatively small event for local schoolchildren held in the auditorium
of the University of Calabar, Nigeria. It will focus on environmental
influences on the brain and will include short talks and demonstrations. |
Organizer:
Mokutima Amarachi Eluwa
Grant: 300
euros
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Kampala,
Uganda
Four events
will be held in different regions of Uganda; the Kampala central district,
Mbale eastern district, Unyama IDP camp in northern Uganda and Kyambogo
University. The target audience will include primary school pupils, university
students, and the public at large. Each event will comprise three activities:
a walk through the town ending in a rally, a Brain Bee competition for
university students, and an exhibition and art competition for secondary
school children. The events will be supported by a radio talk show and
distribution of “Neuroscience the Science of the Brain”, which this group
has undertaken to translate into the local language, Luganda. |
Organizer:
S Wilson, K Simon and others
Grant: 1000
euros
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Cameroon
The three events
will be held respectively in the University, a local secondary school
and a local church. In the first two events there will be a round table
discussion and exhibition of posters relating to anxiety. The later event
will just consist of the round table discussion. |
Organizer:
Elisabeth Ngo Bum
Grant: 800
euros
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ASIAN/PACIFIC REGION
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Lamjung, Nepal
Laximi will
run a project to bring awareness and understanding of Neuroscience in
a remote area of Nepal. The audience will be young people and the elderly.
Laximi would like to design and display posters and give talks on major
neurological diseases addressing the problems related to stroke and head-injury.
Head injury is very common in this region due to the difficult terrain
and the on-going civil war. |
Organizer:
Dr Laxmi Vilas Ghimire
Grant: 300
euros
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Cochin,
India
The applicant will run
a series of events during one week in hospitals, schools and colleges.
The target audience is the general public, professionals, and students.
The program will include lab and hospital visits, lectures on brain diseases
and also the role of brain in creating the mind. There will be interactive
sessions for students and the general public with scientists and doctors.
The audience size will be around 200 – 250 in each session. |
Organizer: Dr C S Paulose
Grant: 800
euros
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Angamaly,
India
This event
comprises a day of activities held at the Little Flower Institution for
Medical Research with an audience of about 300 students, staff and the
general public. The event will be widely publicised on TV and newspapers.
In addition, there will be banners, posters and stickers in public places
to popularize the event. |
Organizer:
Dr J K Mukkadan
Grant: 500
euros
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Mumbai,
India
On the occasion
of the Golden Jubilee Celebration at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences will host Brain
Awareness Week. This will be a five-day event including posters, talks,
live demonstrations and free diagnostic screening. This is a public event
that will be attended by many young people. |
Organizer:
Azizuddin Khan
Grant: 500
euros
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Chandigarh,
India
These applicants
have organised and run a Brain bee championship. This a quiz contest involving
high school children. They would be quizzed on facts about the brain and
the winner would get a chance to compete in our national finals and the
national finalist would be competing in the International brain bee. The
chief objective is to initiate the young minds into taking up a career
in neurosciences. It is an investment to create future neuroscientists
who might make significant contributions in this field. The target population
is high school children, their teachers and other lay public. The event
will be given wide media coverage. |
Organizer:
Dheeraj Khurana
Grant: 500
euros
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Crawley, Western Australia
“Kids Brain
Training” is a day of hands-on activities for school children aged 5-12
years. The organisers expect up to 500 attendees.The organisers would
like to print and distribute copies of IBRO’s publication “Neuroscience
the Science of the Brain” to give to the most interested children and
their families. |
Organizer:
Dr Jennifer Rodger
Grant: 600
euros
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CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
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Yerevan,
Armenia
The Brain Ring is a competition
for teams of school children (VIII-X grades; usually 14-16 years old).
Three teams will be registered and given “Neuroscience” books (Armenian
translation.) After one month the “Brain Ring” will be organized. Most
of the questions given during the game have their answers in the book.
That means that all the participants would seek to read more carefully,
which promote understanding of neuroscience. Twenty teams (100 participants)
are considered as the primary audience.Besides, the game itself would
be organized in such a way, that the secondary audience would also be
involved. |
Organizer:
Artem Grigoryan
Grant: 1000
euros
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LATIN AMERICA
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Manzanillo,
Cuba
“Neuroscience
and the Teaching Profession" is an event for teachers in primary and pecondary
schools.It will promote knowledge about the human brain in schools. The
emphasis is on teachers having a better understanding of the mechanisms
of memory and learning.The attendees will incorporate this knowledge into
their lesson plans and raise issues about the brain in their classrooms.
To engage the students, there will be competitions (poetry and painting)
on the subject of memory.The teachers will be given the Spanish and English
versions of “Neuroscience the Science of the Brain” as a teaching resource.
There will also be radio and TV broadcasts. |
Organizer:
Marcio Ulises Estrada Paneque
Grant: 1000
euros
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Portsmouth,
Domenica (West Indies)
“Hypertension & Stroke:
A public enlightenment initiative for Nature Islanders of Dominica” focuses
on the causes and effects of a brain disorder that is very common in the
West Indies. Members of the Ross Univ School of Medicine will prepare
posters and flyers and short presentations on stroke and hypertension.
These will be displayed in the Dominca Public Library during BAW.RUSM
members will be present to answer questions. Local media and newspapers
will cover the event. |
Organizer:
Prof. Akintola B Odutola, Raymond Tran
Grant: 1000
euros
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US/CANADA
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Montreal,
Canada
This is an
outreach project in which staff and graduate students from Montreal University
visit many schools in the region. In primary schools the children are
given a presentation on the senses while in secondary schools the focus
is on drug abuse. For the last several years the “road show” has visited
hundreds of schools and reached literally thousands of children. |
Organizer:
Emma G Duerden
Grant: 500
euros
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