1 INTRODUCTION

The year 2020 is unfolding as a year of multiple and never‐ending challenges, and also a year of developing new solutions and strategies to overcome obstacles. One such challenge was how to hold a scientific meeting, a bedrock of scientific societies, when travel is prohibited and social distancing is a must. The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) chose to hold their biennial meeting, the FORUM, virtually in July 2020. As with most transitions, there were plusses and minuses, and lessons learned for the next time. To review the meeting for this editorial, we interviewed Carmen Sandi PhD, immediate Past President of FENS, Lars Kristiansen PhD, Executive Director of FENS and Jackie Jones from Wiley, publishing house of European Journal of Neuroscience (EJN). EJN is the society journal of FENS.

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FENS 2020虚拟论坛的报告

1引言

2020年是充满多重挑战且永无止境的一年，也是发展克服障碍的新解决方案和策略的一年。这样的挑战之一是如何在禁止旅行且必须与社会保持距离的情况下召开科学会议，这是科学社会的基石。欧洲神经科学学会联合会（FENS）选择于2020年7月举行两年一次的论坛FORUM。与大多数过渡一样，下有利弊，下一次汲取的教训。为了审查这次社论的会议，我们采访了FENS的前任总裁Carmen Sandi博士，FENS的执行董事Lars Kristiansen博士和来自《欧洲神经科学杂志》（EJN）的Wiley的Jackie Jones。EJN是FENS的社会期刊。