Call for Symposia｜NEURO2022

Call for Symposium Proposals

Call for symposium proposals is closed.
We thank all of you for submitting your proposals.
Acceptance notice will be sent to you by email around mid-November.

Slides and Q&A of a briefing for the open call for symposium

A briefing for the open call for symposium was held in mid-September, covering this Meeting's format and symposium speaker participation and invitations.

Slides and Q&A form are available for the members of the JNS, the JNS or the JNNS.
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Neuro2022 invites members of the JNS, the JSN, and the JNNS to submit symposium proposals. Approximately 40 symposia, including those planned and led by the JNS, the JSN, the JNNS and the Program Committee, will be held in the meeting. We seek proposals of timely and innovative projects and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Submission Period: July 12 (Mon) – ~~September 16 (Thu) 17:00 Japan Standard Time (JST), 2021~~

~~We have postponed the briefing to September 30 (Thu), 17:00 p.m.~~　*Closed

Selection Criteria
Symposium Proposals Submission Guidelines
Grant for Junior Researchers’ Symposia
Grant for Joint International Symposia
Corporate Sponsorship
Symposia Co-Organized with Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
How to Submit your Proposal

1. Selection Criteria

Choice of a topic

In addition to universal values in science and novelty, we pay special attention to interdisciplinary topics that encompass multiple specialist fields and emerging topics. In order for us to take up innovative topics from a broad range of fields as much as possible, proposals that deem highly similar to those selected in the annual meetings in the last two years will have lesser priority than the others in the selection process.

Symposia with diverse speakers

Preference will be given to symposium proposals that involve speakers and co-organizers diverse in age, gender,and affiliation. To include female researchers or young researchers is highly encouraged. Proposals that are judged not to be a symposist composition that emphasizes diversity and inclusion will have lesser priority than the others in the selection process. Symposium proposals with non-JSN, non-JNS, or non-JNNS member speakers or co-organizers from other related academic or clinical societies are welcome from the perspective of developing multidisciplinary research fields. Junior researchers who have obtained their doctoral degree within the last 10 years are eligible to apply for the Junior Researchers’ Symposia Grant as an organizer of a symposium, which is described in section 3 below.

Promotion of internationalization

To promote internationalization of the meeting, symposium proposals that involve overseas-based researchers (regardless of nationality) as speakers will be preferred. Symposia co-organized with overseas-based researchers are eligible to apply for the Joint International Symposium Grant.This Meeting will be held as a hybrid meeting to maintain the health and safety of all participants.
The global spread of Covid-19 is restricting travel to and from overseas, therefore, there may be obstacles to the planning of a symposium involving invited speakers from abroad. Although we recommend speakers to present on-site, we can also accommodate speakers from overseas to give online presentations if the situation persists. We will announce details on presenting methods.Please contact the secretariat if you have any questions. We are willing to help in any way we can.

2. Symposium Proposals Submission Guidelines

The duration of a symposium should be 120 minutes (tentative) with 4 to 6 speakers. Presentations are to be held in English, although discussions following the presentations may be in either English or Japanese.
The main organizer must be a regular or junior member of the JNS the JNS or the JNNS. A co-organizer may be added to co-chair the session; however, it will be the main organizer’s responsibility to plan, schedule, and moderate the session. An organizer and co-organizer shall not take in charge of several symposium.
Organizers should personally obtain consent from all the speakers of their symposia before they submit their proposals. Please be sure to inform the potential speakers that the holding of the symposium is not fixed until the proposal is accepted.
Registration fees for the annual meeting will be waived for symposiasts who are not members of the JNS, the JNS or the JNNS.
Organizers who wish to receive financial support in inviting overseas-based speakers may consider applying for Grant for Junior Researchers’ Symposia or for Joint International Symposia listed in section 3 and 4 below. There have been cases which organizers received financial support in inviting overseas-based speakers in the past, it is undecided whether or not we can do so in this conference yet.
The Program Committee may ask the organizers to combine their symposium with a similar symposium proposal, rearrange speakers, change the titles, or incorporate an oral presentation into their symposium.
One can submit one abstract to present as a first author. Speakers of a symposium cannot present in other symposia or oral/poster sessions. Organizers should convey this policy to the speakers when they ask for their consent to speak in their symposia.
Please note that symposium speakers shall not apply for any travel awards to facilitate the participation of Neuro2022.
Acceptance/non-acceptance of the proposals (including combined proposals) will be announced in mid-November 2021 (tentative) after the Program Committee’s review. The main organizers of the accepted symposia should then responsibly request all speakers to submit their abstracts (in English) during the period of call for papers.

3. Grant for Junior Researchers’ Symposia

Symposia organized by junior researchers who have obtained their doctoral degree not more than ten years prior to September, 2021, the deadline for the submission of symposium proposals, may be financially supported as Junior Researchers’ Symposia. At least one overseas-based researcher should be included as a speaker in the symposium if you are to apply for this grant. When financial resources are secured, grants of ¥100,000 - ¥300,000 will be given for travel expenses of invited speakers. We look for ground-breaking and enthusiastic proposals.

＜How to apply＞

Please select “Apply” for the “Grant for Junior Researcher’s Symposium” on the application page and upload a CV of the main organizer.

4．Grant for Joint International Symposia

Symposia that invite non-Japanese overseas-based researchers as co-organizers and are expected to promote international collaboration will be actively supported. When financial resources are secured, preferential grant of ¥100,000 - ¥300,000 per symposium for travel expenses of invited co-organizers will be considered.

＜How to apply＞

Please select “Apply” for “Grant for Joint International Symposium” on the application page and upload a CV of the co-organizer.

5．Corporate Sponsorship

Companies may offer financial support for your symposium. After a symposium proposal is accepted, the organizer will be notified of the sponsorship offer if there is any.

＜Sponsored Symposia＞

Expenses necessary to hold a symposium (travel expenses of the speaker invited from overseas, etc.) will partially be supported.
Some companies may ask to publish their company names following the title of the symposium, such as “Sponsored by XXXX”, on the website of the annual meeting or in the program book.
They may ask to place a link to their website on the texts of their company names on the website of the meeting as well.
Materials related to the sponsor companies to be distributed on-site of the symposium are limited to those that are given permission by the meeting and symposium organizers.
When organizers are to seek sponsorship from companies by themselves, we ask them first to contact the secretariat to get some advice on sponsorship fees arrangements. When organizers submit their proposals after they have found sponsors, please be sure to inform them that the holding of the symposium is not fixed until the proposal is accepted.

6．Symposia Co-Organized with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on
　 Innovative Areas

If you wish to co-organize your symposium with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, please enter the name of the area on the application page. Joint sponsorship fees for the meeting are not necessary. Using rooms or equipment lent by the meeting is for free, however, putting up signage or using other equipment will be charged.

7．How to Submit your Proposal

Go to the application page from the link below, fill in the form with the following information, and submit your proposal. A person in charge of the proposal, i.e. the main organizer, should responsibly submit the application.
The organizer (and co-organizer, if applicable) should assume the role of chair(s) of the symposium in principle.

Symposium Category (choose from the drop-down category list)
Symposium Title
Information about the main organizer (a regular or junior member of the JNS, the JSN, the JNNS only): name, affiliation, and contact information (email address and phone number)
Information about the co-organizer (if applicable): name, affiliation, and contact information (email address and phone number)
Aim and synopsis (approximately 400 characters)
Information about each speaker: name, affiliation, email address, and phone number
Abstract title of each speaker (tentative titles may do)
Key publications of each speaker (1 to 2 papers per speaker)
Keywords for the entire symposium (5 words)
Request to co-organize the symposium with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
Financial resources secured for travel expenses of overseas speakers
e.g.: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
Special Notes (400 characters)
Please describe your intended contribution to this meeting, or relevance to clinical practices if applicable.