SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Association, is organising elections to its Bodies in May 2026. All regular members of the Association are eligible to vote.

2026 is an election year for SiNAPSA. The deadline for nomination proposal sumbission is May 11, 2026.

We would like to inform you that this year’s first call for applications for SiNAPSA Fund scholarships has closed.

SiNAPSA is proposing an initiative and offering suggestions for a national brain health strategy.

SiNAPSA is once again joining the international Brain Awareness Week initiative in the third week of March, offering free lectures, workshops, film screenings, and discussions to promote neuroscience research.

All SiNAPSA members are kindly invited to the annual SiNAPSA General Assembly, which will take place on Monday, 9 February 2026, at 5:00 PM, in the seminar room at the Neurology Clinic, University Medical Centre Ljubljana (Zaloška cesta 2, Ljubljana).

We are announcing the first call this year for the award of scholarships from the SiNAPSA Fund to support active participation in international conferences, summer schools, or research visits.

2025 was another full year for SiNAPSA! Thank you for your continued support!

Thank you for your support!

Our recently published article details the findings of the brain health portion of the Slovenian Public Opinion survey in 2022.

You are invited to the roundtable Neuroscience and Society, this year on the topic Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience. Experts from medicine and computer science will join us.

Slovenia has taken an important step in the field of neuroscience – it has joined the European Partnership for Brain Health within the Horizon Europe programme.

The organizing committee of the 11th SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference warmly invites you to submit your abstracts!

The SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference (SNC’25), taking place this September, invites researchers to submit original abstracts of their neuroscience research.

The awardees are Selena Horvat and Jerneja Nimac. Congratulations! Due to this year’s SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference (SNC’25), no further calls for applications will be announced by SiNAPSA Scholarship Fund in 2025. More information on travel grant applications for participation at the SNC’25 is available at the event website.

Dear visitors of the SiNAPSA website, would you like to receive a brief summary of news about SiNAPSA’s work and its partner organizations, as well as interesting events and publications on the topic of the brain and neuroscience at the end of each month?

Neuroscience is frequently regarded as challenging and complex. To demonstrate the fun side of learning about the brain, we’re delighted to present Let’s get nervous: the board game!

The title of Brain Awareness Week 2025, which will take place from March 11 to 14, is “Metamorphoses.” This year, the central theme of Brain Awareness Week will be the broader developmental arc of humans and their brains.

On Wednesday, March 12, we will celebrate the 10th Slovenian Brain Day with a short event in the lecture hall of the Institute of Rehabilitation of the Republic of Slovenia – Soča, located at Linhartova 51, at 4 PM.

In 2024, we offered our readers two rich issues exploring the fascinating interplay between nature, science, and our understanding of the brain.