ECTRIMS offers a Clinical Training Fellowship Programme for neurologists and other physicians to provide the opportunity for successful candidates to learn the latest techniques in patient management and care and to help foster their careers as MS physicians.
The submission period has now ended as of 1 December 2025.
All applicants will be informed of the decision by April 2026.
• For physicians to obtain mentored clinical training in a European MS centre to enhance their MS clinical care expertise.
• 1-year funded fellowships in a European laboratory or clinic.
• Citizens of any country are eligible to apply to this programme. However, clinical training must be undertaken in a European clinic.
• All other evaluations equal, some preference will be given to applicants from less-developed countries where MS is a prevalent disease, to provide the opportunity for clinical training in a European setting where MS is a focus.
• The application requires documents from the candidate, the proposed mentor, and the proposed host training institute, as well as other professional referees.
• Successful fellows and their mentors will be asked to provide progress and financial accounting reports at the end of the fellowship year.
• At the time of application, applicants should not have worked in any capacity at the same institution and/or under the same mentor as proposed in the fellowship application.
• The same mentor may not be proposed in more than 1 application per cycle, all fellowship categories combined.
• Institutes may be proposed on multiple applications, provided each application is supported by a different mentor. For the award phase, however, institutes will be limited to 3 awards total among all fellowship categories, with only 1 award in a given category.
These early-career MS professionals were selected based on their outstanding research achievements, as well as their innovative proposals that aim to enhance the field of MS research, treatment & care.
