Membership
Membership in NRSN
NRSN aims to become the hub in the community of young, Norwegian-trained neuroscientists. NRSN is firmly embedded in a wider, global network, through the international network that the partner institutions and the individual PhD candidates bring into the collaboration.
From 2025, membership in NRSN will become free. At the same time, activities will be downscaled. Read more about that below.
Conditions for membership
All PhD candidates in the field of neuroscience working at any Norwegian institution are welcome to apply for membership in NRSN. The primary target group is PhD candidates from the partner institutions (NTNU, UiO, UiB, UiT, UiS), but also candidates from other Norwegian institutions working in the relevant fields are eligible. Once accepted, all support arrangements and events are available for the PhD candidate. Membership of NRSN does not in any way change the PhD Candidate's affiliation with the home institution, the research group, or the individual relation to the supervisor.
What will you get as a member of NRSN?
After 8 years of funding from the Research Council of Norway (2013-2021) and 3 years of operating through a pay-per-student model (2022-2024), NRSN membership is free of charge from 2025. At the same time, we will be downscaling our activities to fit with a smaller budget. We will still aim to be a network for PhD students in neuroscience in Norway. NRSN will
- Continue our newsletter where we will announce relevant courses, conferences, and other events to our members.
- Continue the PhD conference with the motto ‘organized by students for students’. Instead of being organized annually, the conference will take place every two or three years. With this, we aim to continue to provide you with a way to establish collaborations with other Norwegian neuroscience environments.
- Provide access to courses at our partner institutions, for which members can apply for a grant to cover (at least part of) the travel and accommodation cost.