About this tour
The Netherlands is a leading country for neuroscience research and education, home to several highly ranked universities and specialized research institutes. A major contributor in this field is the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), which operates under the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and focuses on fundamental studies of brain function and its connection to various disorders.
During the Study Tour, you meet and learn from leading researchers in the field of molecular and cellular neuroscience. Through academic lectures, institution and university visits, and tours of labs and clinical facilities, you are able to ask questions as well as discuss research focus areas and clinically relevant aspects within neuroscience, and learn more about the future of neuroscience as a whole.
You have the opportunity to see how the knowledge you learn in the classroom translates into research, clinical application, and education approaches in a real-world environment. The Study Tour is supplemented with visits to museums, historic sites, and cultural landmarks, enabling you to learn more about these two cities, once co-capitals of the strongest empire in Europe.
Learning outcomes
- Broaden your perspective on developments in the neuroscience field
- Gain insight into collaboration between academia, research, and clinical application
- Learn about cutting-edge neurobiological research through visiting clinical and lab-based research institutions and hospitals
Possible activities
- Visit the Neurology department at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam and learn about research focusing on several types of dementias
- Meet researchers from the Netherlands Institute in Neuroscience in Amsterdam that perform fundamental scientific research in the field of neuroscience
- Learn how advanced neuroimaging techniques are used to understand the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human behaviour at the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Radboud University in Nijmegen
- Visit the Department of Translational Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center and learn about the tools they use to delineate fundamental mechanisms for the development of neural systems