APPLICATIONS CLOSED
This Fellowship has the following aims:
- To offer the possibility to participate in ESRS or ESRS-endorsed meetings and courses taking place in Europe during the 2026 calendar year.
- Support career development and in particular support more junior candidates in the early stages of their career in sleep research,
- The Fellowships are available to scientists, investigators, clinicians, allied health professionals, and nurses.
A maximum amount of 500 EUR will be awarded.
A maximum of six grants per year will be financed.
Conditions:
- The grant sum awarded by the ESRS should support travel and accommodation costs.
- All candidates must be members of the ESRS at the time of application.
- Candidates must submit an abstract for presentation at the meeting.
- There is no upper age limit for eligibility; however, preference will be given to candidates who are in the early stages of their career.
- Funding is open to all nationalities and for European and non-European-based candidates.
- Applicants must not have been awarded any ESRS Meeting and Courses Fellowship Grant in the previous three years.
Requirements:
- A cover letter (max. 1 page) specifying the following: How will attendance at the meeting benefit your career and what learning goals do you pursue? and Why will this specific meeting be especially beneficial for you?
- Candidate’s CV (max. 2 pages).
- Candidate’s list of publications.
- Candidate’s passport or ID scan.
- Upon completion of the meeting, the successful candidates will be required to send a certificate of attendance at the meeting and a copy of the abstract presented at the meeting to the ESRS Secretary. Applicants with missing reports or reports evaluated as incomplete or unsatisfactory by the ESRS Scientific Committee or Executive Committee will be banned from applying for ESRS bursaries or grants for 5 years.
Application Guidelines
All application files should be submitted via the online application form only. All application documents except for the passport or ID scan must be submitted in a single PDF document. Applications can be submitted for all funding opportunities simultaneously.
The ESRS Scientific Committee will rank grant applications based on:
- Learning goals, as detailed in the cover letter.
- Candidate’s CV and publications, taking account of seniority.
In ranking applications, the ESRS Scientific Committee will strive to foster diversity in terms of age, gender, geographical distribution, and research topics.
Please contact ESRS if you have any questions.
Meetings & Courses Fellowship Recipients
The ESRS is pleased to announce and congratulate the recipients of the ESRS Meetings & Courses Fellowship developed to offer the possibility of participating in meetings and courses taking place in Europe and endorsed by the ESRS.
- Fateme Samea – Jülich, Germany
ESRS Paediatric Sleep School 2025- Bertinoro, Italy - Jingru Zhou – Leiden, Netherlands
22nd European Narcolepsy Masterclass & 16th European Narcolepsy Day, Istanbul, Türkiye - Johanna Palm–Stockholm, Sweden
European Insomnia Network Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Manca Knez –Celje, Slovenia
ESRS Sleep Europe 2024 Seville, Spain - Debora Meneo – Rome, Italy
ESRS Paediatric Sleep School 2025- Bertinoro, Italy - Rick van Dorp –Leiden, Netherlands
European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS) Congress, Lübeck, Netherlands
- Alexandra Hinterberger – Salzburg, Austria
ESRS Sleep Europe 2024 Seville, Spain - Claire André – Montréal, Canada
ESRS Sleep Europe 2024 Seville, Spain - Xuanyu Huang – Milan, Italy
ESRS Sleep Europe 2024 Seville, Spain - Damiana Bergamo – Lucca, Italy
ESRS Sleep Europe 2024 Seville, Spain - Debora Meneo – Rome, Italy
ESRS Sleep Europe 2024 Seville, Spain - Giorgia Degasperi – Padova, Italy
ESRS Sleep Europe 2024 Seville, Spain
- Bárbara Santos, Portugal
European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2023, Italy - Elise Beckers, Belgium
Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Netherlands - Adriano Targa, Spain
Sleep and Breathing Conference 2023, Czech Republic - Agata Gabryelska, Poland
Sleep and Breathing Conference 2023, Czech Republic - Sanne Hoepel, Netherlands
Sleep Science School 2023, France - Federico Salfi, Italy
Sleep and Breathing Conference 2023, Czech Republic
- Adriana Michalak, Italy
Sleep Europe 2022 – Athens, Greece – Read Report - Ana Brás, Portugal
Sleep Europe 2022 – Athens, Greece - Anna Biller, Germany
Sleep Europe 2022 – Athens, Greece - Barbara Santos, Portugal
World Sleep 2022 – Rome, Italy – Read Report - Frederico Salfi, Italy
Sleep Europe 2022 – Athens, Greece - Laetitia Gaspar, Portugal
Sleep Europe 2022 – Athens, Greece - Natalie Linea Hauglund, Denmark
Gordon Research Seminar and Conference
Laetitia Gaspar, Portugal
Sleep & Breathing – Prague, Czech Republic – Read Report
Barbara Santos
Sleep & Breathing – Prague, Czech Republic
Daphne Chylinski, Italy
Gordon’s Conference – Ciocco, Italy
Agata Gabryelska, Poland
25th ESRS Congress – Seville, Spain
Laetitia Gaspar, Portugal
25th ESRS Congress – Seville, Spain
Maria Elisabeth Koopman-Verhoeff, The Netherlands
25th ESRS Congress – Seville, Spain
Adriana Michalak, United Kingdom
25th ESRS Congress – Seville, Spain
Omer Sharon, Israel
Computational Psychiatry – Venice, Italy
Chiara Berteotti, Italy
FENS Regional Meeting – Belgrad, Serbia
Maud de Feijter, The Netherlands
2nd ESRS Sleep Science School “Sleep and Aging”- Frejus, France
Jari K. Gool, The Netherlands
16th European Narcolepsy Master Class and the 10th European Narcolepsy Day- Bern, Switzerland
Marie-Laure Possovre, Switzerland
Sleep Summer School – Lugano, Switzerland
Marta Serwatko, Iceland
Nordic Sleep Conference – Oslo, Norway
Adamantia Sotitriou, Greece
Sleep & Breathing – Marseilles, France
Philippe Jawinski, Leipzig, Germany
24th ESRS Congress – Basel, Switzerland
Tengiz Oniani, Tbilisi, Georgia
24th ESRS Congress – Basel, Switzerland
Laura Pérez-Carbonell, London, United Kingdom
24th ESRS Congress – Basel, Switzerland
Sikka Pillerin, Turku, Finland
24th ESRS Congress – Basel, Switzerland
Joana Isaac Teixeira, Beja, Portugal
24th ESRS Congress – Basel, Switzerland
Alexander Wolkow, Notting Hill, Melbourne, Australia
24th ESRS Congress -Basel, Switzerland
Mohamed Ameen, Cambridge, United Kingdom
3rd Symposium on Sleep, Cognition, and Consciousness- Kaprun, Austria
Stefano Bastianini, Bologna, Italy
World Sleep 2017 – Prague, Czech Republic
Amber Roguski, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sleep and Breathing 2017, Marseille, France
Dr. Madeleine F. Scriba, Lausanne, Switzerland,
World Sleep 2017 – Prague, Czech Republic
Jayne Trickett, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sleep and Breathing 2017 – Marseille, France
