Education Grants

Grant recipients

Application for CIRSE Foundation 2013 Education Grants is now possible throughout the year. 
For further information, please contact Tanja Valentinitsch (valentinitsch@esir.org).


Thank you very much for the numerous applications for our 2013 Education Grants!

As of March 25th, all 9 Fellowship Grants for 2013 have been awarded.

The following grants are still available:

• 1 Fellowship Education Grant especially dedicated to members from China

The purpose of the education grant is to advance training and education in Interventional Radiology. The grants are available for CIRSE Members, particularly Fellows or Junior Faculty, who wish to train or experience new procedures at a different European institution. For example, the grants can be used to learn a new procedure and/or skills that may be needed at the applicant’s institution or to undergo training not available at the applicant’s own institution. Applications can be submitted for two grant categories:

Training in any IR topic possible (European residency required):

9x Fellowship Grants (minimum 3 months, € 10,000)

5x Visiting Scholarship Grants (minimum 2 weeks, € 2,000)

 Application Form Fellowship Grant (min. 3 months, € 10,000)

 Application Form Visiting Scholarship Grant (min. 2 weeks, € 2,000)


Training in following topics only:
Embolotherapy, Arterial Leg Therapy (including Critical Limb Ischemia), PE Preventions, Venous Access, Percutaneous Drainage Procedures, TIPPS, Soft Tissue and Bone Biopsy, GI Procedures, Vertebroplasty:

1 x Fellowship Education Grant especially dedicated to members from South America
(minimum 3 months, € 10,000)*

1 x Fellowship Education Grant especially dedicated to members from China
(minimum 3 months, € 10,000)*

 Application Form Fellowship Grant South America (min. 3 months, € 10,000)

 Application Form Fellowship Grant China (min. 3 months, € 10,000)

* Kindly sponsored by a restricted educational grant from Cook Medical

Eligibility and Guidelines
• The applicant must be a CIRSE member in good standing.
• Applicants choose the institution (in Europe) they wish to attend and make all necessary arrangements.
• The grant is to be used to cover travel expenses, housing and other indirect costs.
• The applicant must clearly formulate educational goals and a budget plan covering a minimum of two weeks for the Visiting Scholarship Grant or three months for the Fellowship Grant.
• The applicant must complete the official application form (see relevant pdf form) and send it, along with all the documents specified in the application form, to CIRSE Central Office.
• The application will be judged by the CIRSE Foundation Review Board on the information provided in the grant application form.
• Notification of acceptance/denial will be sent 8 weeks after successful submission.
• Upon completion of training, the grant recipient is expected to submit a final report.
• Trainees may receive a maximum of 2 fellowship grants and a maximum of 4 grants in total (including visiting scholarships). Applications for the second fellowship grant will only be considered at least 2 years after the first one has been awarded.

Required Documents
Please attach the following documents to the respective application form:

1. Covering letter to explain why you want to visit the chosen institution.
2. Letter of recommendation from the Head of the Department where you are currently working.
3. Letter from the chosen institution, confirming your visit, the duration of your stay and an outline of the training offered.
4. Detailed budget outlining how the Education Grant will be spent.
5. Curriculum vitae.



Grant Recipients  

2013

Sandeep Sunder Amin, GE
Tamta Azrumelashvili, GE
Roberto Luigi Cazzato, IT
Halio Rodrigues Duarte, PT
Patricija Ivanova, LT
Nikolas Kortes, DE
Pedro Lopes, PT
Athanasios Pantos, GR
Maria del Rocio Fernandez Parra, ES
Pedro Pegado, PT
Sara Protto, FI
Ishaq Uri, UK
Ioannis Voultsos, GR
Special Grant in cooperation with Cook Medical:

Octavio Meneghelli Galvao Goncalves, BR

2012

Flavio Arcerito, IT
Jon Bell, UK
Anne Bethke, NO
Tiago Couto, PT
Athanasios Diamantopoulos, GR
Fernando Gomez, ES
Boris Guiu, FR
Pierleone Lucatelli, IT
Leto Mailli, GR
Luka Novosel, HR
Pantelis Papadopoulos, GR
Rui Ramos, PT
Hugo Rio Tinto, PT
Bartosz Zabicki, PL
Special Grants in cooperation with Cook Medical:

Patricia Arroyo Albalba, Chile
Rafael Cavalcante, Brazil
Rozil Gandhi, India
Haofang Wang, China

Special Grants in cooperation with Synthes:

Michael Popescu, SE
Ezio Lanza, IT

2011

Dario Alberto Bartolucci, IT
Nikola Boban, RS
Rutger Bruijnen, NL
Matthias Fürstner, AT
Carla Gonzalez-Junyent, ES
Magdalena Jarzabek, PL
Katerina Koulia, GR
Michalis Kelogrigoris, GR
Sum Leong, IE
Miguel Morales Garcia, ES
Panagiotis Nikolopoulos, GR
Hugo Rio Tinto, PT
Diogo Rocha, PT
Stavros Spiliopoulos, GR
Special Grants in cooperation with Cook Medical:

Gil Alfonso Badallo, MX
Nobutake Ito, JP
Emilio Sanin, CO
Haidong Zhu, CN

Special Grant in cooperation with Synthes:

Diederick De Boo, NL

2010

Emanuele Boatta, IT
Eva Criado Paredes, ES
Dimitrios Filippiadis, GR
Francesco Gabbrielli, IT
Claus Kölblinger, AT
Peter Attila Mezes, HU
Nikoloz Onashvili, GE
Ovidiu Parvu, RO
Enrico Peano, IT
Roger Barranco Pons, ES
Nikolaos Ptohis, GR
Pedro Sousa, PT
Gregorios Tsoukalos, GR
Special Grants in cooperation with Cook Medical:

Valeria Aguiar, BR
Feng Li, CN
Esteban Sayegh, AR
Toshihiro Tanaka, JP 


2009

Massimiliano Allegritti, IT
Predrag Avramov, RS
Mihai Creteanu, RO
Antoine Feydy, FR
Gerard Goh, IE
Dionisios Loxas, GR
Andreas H. Mahnken, DE
Leto Mailli, GR
Alan O'Hare, IE
Andrej Petres, RS
Luminita Tomescu, RO
Shoaib Shaikh, HU
Chrisovalantis Vergadis, GR

2008

Predrag Avramov, RS
David O'Donnell, IE
Siobhan McGrane, IE
Ioannis Kapralos, GR
Konstantinos Katsanos, GR
Aoife Keeling, IE
Miltiadis Krokidis, GR
Fabio Melchiorre, IT
Olivier Pellerin, FR
Jost Philipp Schaefer, DE
Cagin Sentürk, TR
Georgia Tsoumakidou, GR
Kai Wilhelm, DE


2007

Maria Batalova, RU
Viktor Bérczi, HU
Nikolas Fotiadis, GR
Aoiffe Keeling, EI
Eirini Manousaki, GR
Navin Mathias, UK
Marco Midulla, IT
Tehri Nevala, FI
Markus Reiter, AT
Cagin Sentürk, TR
Emmanouil Theodoropoulos, GR
Steven Thomas, UK

2006

Dimitrios Tzavoulis, GR
Antonio Bottari, IT
Aoife Keeling, IE
Konstantinos Katsanos, GR
Antonio Basile, IT
Patrick Knüsel, CH
Miltiades Krokidis, GR

2005

Miltiadis Krokidis, GR
Evangelia Stroumpouli, GR
Sophia Mylona, GR
Georgia Papaioannou, GR
David Shaw, GB

2004

Antonio Basile, IT
Andrew Edwards, GB
Ahmet Goktay, TR
Harald Gunselmann, DE
Peter Zabakis, GR

2003

Thomas Jahnke, DE
Ruben Lopez Benitez, ES
Dimitrios Tsetis, GR
Denis R. Wetter, CH
Tommaso Lupattelli, IT

2002

Adam Hatzidakis, GR
Victor Bérczi, HU
Antonio Basile, IT
Marie Cerná, CZ

2001

Kai Wilhelm, DE

2000

Thomas J. Kröncke, DE
Viktor Bérczi, HU


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