ECNP Ambassadors

ECNP Ambassadors programme launched to enhance our activities at the country level

 

ECNP was founded 25 years ago not just to foster and promote neuropsychopharmacological research in Europe, but to foster and promote it across Europe. This has been the guiding principle behind, amongst others, our regional meetings, our seminars and our emphasis on recruiting participants for our congresses, workshops and schools from all corners of the region. The result is now a strong and vibrant support base, not just in Western Europe, but Eastern and Southern Europe as well.

Now, ECNP is launching a new initiative to draw in countries even further afield, many of which lack the infrastructure to sustain a national society, and so have fallen outside our Advisory Board of National Societies programme. For every country in Europe we plan to appoint an ECNP Ambassador. This person, a senior neuropsychopharmacologist in his or her region, will help to coordinate seminars and mini-symposia, to nominate young scientists for the ECNP Schools and ECNP Workshop, and act as representative and point of contact for ECNP in his or her home country. Each ambassador will serve a term of two years. A provisional list of candidates is being finalised now.

The first meeting of the ECNP Ambassadors took place on 9 February 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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