NeuroCamp is a summer school based in Munich that targets high school students worldwide in their final two years of study. It is organized by current LMU students and young researchers, with the goal of introducing students to the fascinating field of neuroscience.

The summer camp is made for Senior (final and penultimate year) Gymnasium students.

NeuroCamp 2024 will be hybrid! You can join us either from the comfort of your home via Zoom or in-person in Munich. Lectures (1st week) are held at the Martinsried Campus of the LMU and/or at the ISD center (Biocenter, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg/Feodor-Lynen-Straße 17, 81377 München). Mini research projects (2nd week) take place in different locations, depending on the laboratory in which you will be working.

We ask all participants (on-site and online) to pay a deposit fee of 100 euros that will be returned to the participants upon successful completion of the camp. All participants must attend at least 80% of the lectures (week1) and 100% of mini-projects and report preparation (week2) to be able to claim their deposit back. Participants that will attend the camp in-person are responsible to cover by themselves the costs for traveling and accommodation in Munich. Due to legal reasons, we are only able to cover transportation costs to the camp for highly qualified students from the area of Munich. The cost per participant in-person is 400 euros but it is covered by the sponsors of Neurocamp 2025. We believe that financial situation of students should not be an obstacle to obtaining education and knowledge. Therefore, upon financial difficulties please contact the Neurocamp team and we will work on a solution together.

Participants of Neurocamp 2025 can attend either online or in-person. The first week, there will be morning lectures given by scientists from the Munich Universities and other neuroscience-related events! The second week, Monday to Wednesday, you will work on a research project with 3-4 participants per group, supervised by a young neuroscientist. Thursday you will work with your teammates to make a presentation of your project to present to the other students on Friday. Please note that depending on the participation mode different conditions apply. Read below. Online Neurocamp Participants that attend on-line will be able to access all the lectures and social activities during the first week of Neurocamp. All sessions will take place online through a video platform, and the students will connect remotely. For the past three years, we have offered online participants the opportunity to engage in research projects during the second week. Therefore, 100% attendance during Week 2 is mandatory for all students. On-site participants On-site participants will attend lectures at the LMU campus in Martinsried during the first week and participate in other neuroscience-related events and social activities. During the second week, in-person participants will be in a real neuroscience lab for their research project.

YES PLEASE! The main objective of the summer school is to introduce students to the fascinating field of Neuroscience. Thus, we do not expect you to have any prior knowledge of this discipline. If you have done Neuroscience before, then this will be a great opportunity for you to learn about the field in more depth. In general, the school is open for everyone who has a genuine interest in the subject.

The whole course will be conducted in English, so you must be able to speak and understand written and spoken language. You don’t have to be fluent, but a minimum B1 level will be necessary. As a rule of thumb, if you are able to read and understand everything on this website - you will be fine. If you are unsure about your level of English - just drop us a message and we will assist you!

Yes! We encourage applications from all over the world.

No. However, we do not provide accommodation. So if you wish to participate and are selected and are coming from outside of Munich, you will have to arrange for your own stay.

No.If you are coming from outside of Munich, you will have to arrange for your own stay.

We will provide several coffee breaks and daily lunches (excluding weekends). Before the start of the summer school, you will receive a multiple-choice food questionnaire to inform us of your dietary preferences. Depending on the funds we receive each year, we do our best to cover as many dinners as possible for our students.

A mixture of professors as well as younger researchers will be your teachers. As a rule, more senior scientists will give the lectures, and PhD students and post-doctoral researchers will work closely with you during the research projects. Additionally, MSc and PhD students will be around during the whole week, and you can chat with them about anything you want :)

Absolutely! NeuroCamp is a fantastic learning opportunity for anyone interested in neuroscience. Our aim is to introduce you to the field, give you a glimpse into the life of a scientist, and help you develop soft skills that we hope will be valuable in your future career. If you're motivated and eager to learn, that's all you need!

Yes. At the end of the school, you will receive a certificate of participation, provided you meet the minimum attendance requirements (80% in Week 1 and 100% in Week 2). Additionally, prizes will be awarded for the best talk and best poster during the closing ceremony. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer school credits.

As you can see in the timetable provided on our website, in the first week you will have morning lectures each day about several topics in the field of neuroscience (about one hour each). After a lunch break, there will be other sessions, which will be either a lecture, a hands-on session or a soft skills workshop. We will end each day with a wrap-up session to summarize and reflect on the day, chat a bit, ask questions, and have a fun quiz to keep things exciting! There will be breaks in between all sessions as well, where you can interact with other students, get something to eat and drink, stretch your legs, … In the second week, you will work on a research project that you chose beforehand for the first three days. For this research project you will be assigned to a neuroscience researcher, who will be your tutor, together with 2-3 other students. You will learn about experiments, experimental design and you will generate your own results from these experiments and interpret them! Thursday you will then work with your teammates to prepare a presentation and a poster of your project to present to the other students on Friday, during the closing ceremony.

One month before the start of NeuroCamp, you will receive the final agenda, including details about the lectures and summaries of the possible research projects. During the first week of the camp, each tutor will give a short presentation introducing themselves and the project they are offering. On the same day, we’ll hold a “Meet the Tutors” session, where you’ll have the chance to interact with the tutors and ask questions—especially if you're unsure which project you'd like to choose! After this, you’ll be able to rank the projects based on your preferences (from most to least interesting). Using your top three choices, we’ll do our best to fairly assign you to one of your preferred labs, typically in groups of two or three students. In Week 2 of NeuroCamp, you will work together as a team with your tutor on the selected project.

As NeuroCamp is based in Munich, Germany, our lecturers and tutors work on Munich time (CEST). The schedule will be arranged according to this time zone. However, we are mindful of participants joining from other parts of the world. If you have any other concerns regarding this point, please let us know, and we will try to figure out a solution.

When you have successfully completed NeuroCamp you will get a certificate on the last day (for online students, we will ship it to you along with a goodie bag with lots of cool stuff). And, of course, you will gain a great experience, learn a lot and get to know like-minded people!

Since there are a lot of people volunteering their time and resources to make NeuroCamp happen - from the team, to the lecturers and tutors in the labs - we ask you to pay a deposit of 100 € as an insurance that you will attend NeuroCamp activities. The deposit will be refunded back to you after the completion of the camp. It is required that you attend at least 80% of the camp during the first week and full-time attendance is required during the second week in order to successfully complete the camp and get the refund.

Our policy is to issue a certificate of participation only if you attend at least 80% of the program. We begin sending out all relevant information about NeuroCamp one month in advance (around the end of June), so you'll have time to plan and schedule accordingly. If any unforeseen circumstances arise that may prevent you from fully attending the camp, please contact us as soon as possible so we can try to find a solution together.

First and foremost, you need to have an interest in learning about Neuroscience :) Then you need to fill in the application form, telling us about yourself and your motivation. Upon admission to the camp, we will then ask you to pay a refundable deposit of 100 € as a guarantee that you will attend the camp

If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at general.contact@neurocampmunich.de, or just use the contact form below.