The EYES Clinical Observership Programme (COP) enables ESE Early Career Investigators from Europe to grow and learn during a short, one-month stay in an endocrine centres of special interest. These are referred to as an “Observership" due to different European laws.
Several Observerships are awarded each year, including three funded by ESE (COP and ROP) amounting to €1,000 each, and others that are self-funded by participants.
New 'Bilateral Observership' pilot for 2024
This year, we are opening the Clinical Observership Programme to applications from early career investigators from our Associate Partner Society: Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinonologia e Metabologia (SBEM). If this pilot for a new 'bilateral' Clinical Observership (BOP) works well, we hope to extend it to our other Associate Partner Societies in due course. The same eligibility criteria apply. See centre number 21 in the drop-down menu below.
THE GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2024 OBSERVERSHIPS HAVE NOW CLOSED. APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THE OUTCOME IN DUE COURSE. Applications for the 2025 Observership Grants will open in December 2024.
Map of the Centres for the 2024 Observerships
See the 20 centres across Europe that are participating in this programme.
- Centre of Special interest in Adrenal endocrinology, University Hospital Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. Mentor: Professor Darko Kaštelan
- Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon university, Endocrinology Department, Reference Centre for Rare Pituitary Diseases, Lyon, France. Mentors: Professor Gerald Raverot and Professor Phillipe Bertolino. Read more about this centre and the project here.
- Institut Cochin, Paris, France. Mentor: Professor Jérôme Bertherat. Read more about this centre and the project here.
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany. Mentor: Professor Martin Reincke with Professor Nicole Reisch
- Centre of Special Interest in Menopause: Aretaeion Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens Greece. Mentor: Irene Lambrinoudaki, Professor of Endocrinology
- Centre of Special Interest in Andrology: Papageorgiou Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece. Mentor: Dimitrios G. Goulis, Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology
- Centre of Special Interest in Andrology and sexual medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. Mentor: Professor Linda Vignozzi
- Unit of Endocrinology - Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. Mentor: Professor Manuela Simoni. Read more about this centre and the project here.
- Centre of Special Interest for Neuroendocrine tumours, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy. Mentor: Professor Annamaria Colao
- Center of Special Interest for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (CIBO), Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy. Mentor: Assistant Professor Giovanna Muscogiuri
- Centre of Special Interest for pituitary diseases, University Hospital, Novara, Italy. Mentor: Professor Flavia Prodam
- Centre of Special Interest in Diabetes, “Gemelli” Hospital, Rome, Italy. Mentor: Professor Pontecorvi Alfredo
- University of Turin - Department of Medical Sciences Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Gender incongruence, andrology and endocrinological gynecology, Turin, Italy. Mentor: Professor Ezio Ghigo with Dr Giovanna Motta. Read more about this centre and the project here.
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Isotope Therapy, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland. Mentor: Professor Marek Bolanowski.
- Centre of Special Interest in Neuroendocrinology, Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia, Belgrade. Mentor: Associate Professor Dragana Miljic
- National Centre for Infertility, Clinic of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia, Belgrade. Mentor: Assoc. Professor Ljiljana Marina. Read more about this centre and the project here.
- Centre of Special Interest in Diabetic Foot: St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK. Mentor: Dr Vassiliki Bravis, Consultant of Endocrinology and Diabetes/Clinical Lead for the Trust
- Centre for Endocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. Mentor: Professor Márta Korbonits. Read more about this centre and the project here.
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Mentor: Professor Ahmed Yousseif. Read more about this centre and the project here.
- SEMPR., University of Curitiba, Brazil. Mentor: Prof. Cesar Boguszewski, early career ambassador: Dr Junia Shweitzer. Period for Observership: September, October, or November, English (Portuguese language is useful but not mandatory) additional financial support: €1000 towards travel expenses from SBEM. Read more about this centre and the project here.
Applications for 2024 Observership Grants are now open. In addition to completing an application form you will need to provide the following:
- The names of your two preferred centres of interest from the list and your field of interest (you may be assigned to your second preference if the first is unavailable).
- Two letters of recommendation: one from a mentor and the other from the Head of Department
- CV (one page) and motivation letter (max 250 words)
- Agreement to the COP terms and conditions document
- Current ESE membership number
Please read the application documents and terms and conditions carefully before you submit your application.
All applications will be reviewed by the EYES Committee, a representative from the ESE Science Committee (for ROP) and a representative of the Clinical Committee (for COP).
Complete the Application Form.
The closing date for applications is 31 March 2024.
- All applicants must be fully paid current ESE Members. Applicants are required to be Internal medicine and/or Endocrinologist and/or Diabetologist in training (specialty or subspecialty). Applicants are also required to have published (as one of the authors) at least one paper indexed in Current Contents (CC).
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Please note: We are unable to provide grants to individuals or institutions currently under sanction according to the consolidated list of financial sanctions targets in the UK, as listed here.
Applications are verified to ensure this is not the case before a grant is awarded. ESE does not permit sanctioned individuals or individuals from sanctioned institutions to attend any ESE events.
Successful applicants are required to complete:
- The EYES Observership Logbook: a short notebook with activities during the COP programme.
- Evaluation form of the host centre and applicant. This is to be submitted in the form of a report to ESE.
- A photo during the Observership and a 300-word article describing how the experience benefited them; this will be published in EYES News.
The awarded applicants will receive an official Certificate upon completion of the COP programme, signed by the EYES Committee Chair and the ESE Science Committee representative.
Grants are paid to applications after the Observership and on receipt of an expense claim form and supporting receipts or documentation. These need to be submitted to the ESE Office within 6 weeks of the Observership, or the application will be void. Payment to an institution can be made in advance of the meeting or event. The Observership must be started within 18 months of the grant being awarded.
Please contact the EYES OP Coordinators for further information.
Please read the Terms and Conditions carefully before your submit your application.
- Anastasia Armeni, University of Turin, Italy – Grant Winner
- Alba Hernández Lázaro, University of Florence, Italy – Grant Winner
- Zvezdana Jemuovic, Federico II University Hospital, Italy – Grant Winner
- Zeliha Yarar, University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia
- Ilaria Bonaventura, University Hospital Munich, Germany
- Ketevan Lomidze, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Simona Gabriela Duta-Ion, Centre of Special Interest for pituitary diseases, University Hospital, Italy
- Mia Manojlovic, Centre of Special Interest in Neuroendocrinology, Italy
- Maria Mathiopoulou, University of Athens, Greece
- Ana Maria Moyano Sanchez, Centre of Special Interest in Diabetes, “Gemelli” Hospital
- Leonardo Dalla Valentina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Iulia Alexandra Pirga, Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Serbia
- Ioanna Balla (Germany), St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
- Selvihan Beysel, Centre of Special Interest in Diabetes, “Gemelli” Hospital, Rome, Italy - Grant Winner
- Marta Borges Canha, Centre of Special interest in Adrenal endocrinology, University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia - Grant Winner
- Mirko Parasiliti Caprino, Centre of Special Interest in Clinical Epidemiology and Endocrinology -
Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. - Grant Winner
- Nestan Bostoganashvili, Centre of Special Interest in Diabetic Foot: St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College
Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK - Paolo Facondo, Centre of Special Interest in Andrology: Papageorgiou Hospital, Medical
School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece. - Irene Gagliardi,
- Gabriela Handzlik, Centre of Special Interest in Andrology and sexual medicine, University of
Florence, Florence Italy. - Adam Maciejewski, Centre of Special Interest for Neuroendocrine tumours, University Hospital,
Naples, Italy - Mia Manojlovic, Centre of Special Interest in Menopause: Aretaeion Hospital, Medical School,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Brett Mansfield, Centre of Special Interest for Neuroendocrine tumours, Erasmus University
Medical Centre of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Nino Matas, Centre of Special Interest for pituitary diseases, University Hospital, Novara,
Italy.