The ESO Department to Department Visit Programme is a grant of €1,500 offered to up to 10 young physicians and researchers to support a short visit of a week or as a contribution to a longer visit to an European department or laboratory.
The programme aims to provide insight into stroke departments outside the applicant’s home country.
The application period for 2023 applications is now open!
Deadline: 28 February 2023
See below for more details about the application process and deadline.
In the selection process, we have a special emphasis on applicants from European low-middle and upper-middle income countries (as defined by the World Bank), interested in improving the stroke pathways and care in their institutions and six grants per year are reserved for this purpose.
The application period is now open for 2023 visits.
Interested applicants are requested to complete and submit the following documents all together:
If you require assistance to establish contact with an institution, please contact Dr. Diana Aguiar de Sousa from the “ESO Young Stroke Physicians and Researchers committee” by email to dianasousa@campus.ul.pt.
Applications must be submitted to the ESO Secretariat by email to esoinfo@eso-stroke.org by 28 February 2023.
For any questions, please write to esoinfo@eso-stroke.org
University Clinical Center of Vojvodina | Vojvodina, Serbia
“I made a presentation about stroke care where I come from. The whole team in Oslo had a few questions about organization back in my country, and a ton of suggestions how can we improve our stroke care. It was a big scope of information and ideas, that even while I am writing this report, the other parts of my brain are thinking about how to perform and to implement many of those suggestions… It was a great experience, and I think it should be experienced by everyone who has an interest in stroke. This way you can step up your knowledge, and pass on your experience to others and make further improvement back at home.”
Kyrgyz State Medical Academy | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
“It was a great pleasure to spent one week in Neurology Department of Keppler University in Linz where I meet the perfect team in stroke unit… I learned a many new key tips regarding stroke care, and will share with my colleagues and try to implement some of these in our stroke departments.”
115 People’s Hospital | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“I had opportunities to discuss the latest science with experts in the stroke field, how to triage stroke patients in the pre-hospital settings, how to predict large vessel occlusion stroke, as well as the future of acute stroke care… Overall, three weeks onboard on MSU helped me to get new insights about MSU, and how to setup, run and operate an MSU. In the future, I hope I can do something to improve the very important pre-hospital stroke care, especially in developing countries like Vietnam.”
2022 Awardees
ESO is pleased to announce the 2022 awardees and their hosts:
Alexander Nave (Germany)
Host Institution: University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland / 20-27 June 2022 Read report
Federica Letteri (Italy)
Host Institution: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland / 12 September – 9 October 2022
Khachik Petrosyan (Armenia)
Host Institution: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Lille, France / 5-19 September 2022 Read report
Kunduz Karbozova (Kyrgyzstan)
Host Institution: Klinik für Neurologie, Linz, Austria / 12-20 September 2022 Read report
Mariam Kekenadze (Georgia)
Host Institution: Perugia University Hospital, Italy / December 2022
Martina Goeldlin (Switzerland)
Host Institution: University College London Queen Square, England / November 2022
Meri Grigoryan (Armenia)
Host Institution: University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland / 16 July – 1 August 2022 Read report
Peter Waweru (Kenya)
Host Institution: Coimbra University Hospital, Portugal / TBC in 2023
Stoiloudis Panagiotis (Greece)
Host Institution: Saint Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany / 19-26 September 2022 Read report
Trung Nguyen (Vietnam)
Host Institution: Saarland University Hospital, Germany / 5-16 September 2022 Read report
2021 Awardees
ESO is pleased to announce the 2021 awardees and their hosts:
Annemijn Algra (The Netherlands)
Host Institution: Oslo University Hospital, Norway / 30 May – 3 June 2022 Read Report
Nada Elsaid (Egypt)
Host Institution: University Hospital of Modena, Italy / 25 June-10 July 2022
Maria Fonseca de Melo Bandeira (Belgium)
Host Institution: CHU Lille, France / 4 October 2021 – 2 October 2022 Read Report
Mihail Kalnev (Bulgaria)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Switzerland / 1 – 31 October 2021 Read Report
Ivan Koltsov (Russia)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Switzerland / early 2023
Máté Kondor (Hungary)
Host Institution: Segeberger Kliniken, Bad Segeberg, Germany / 9 August – 3 September 2021 Read Report
Raffaele Ornello (Italy)
Host Institution: University of Edinburgh, Scotland / date TBC
Papadopoulos Vassilis (Greece)
Host Institution: Bispebjerg Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark / 14 June – 13 October 2021 Read Report
Apoorva Shankaranarayana (India)
Host Institution: University of Nottingham, United Kingdom / 23 – 28 May 2022 Read Report
Emanuele Spina (Italy)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Switzerland / 18 October – 5 November 2021 Read Report
2020 Awardees
ESO is pleased to announce the 2020 Department to Department Visit Programme Awardees. We wish a fruitful, cooperative visit to all involved.
Awardee: Tatia Aprasidze (Georgia)
Host Institution: University Children’s Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland / 1 – 14 July 2021 Read Report
Awardee: Antonio Ciacciarelli (Italy)
Host Institution: Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain / 7-22 February 2021 Read Report
Awardee: Gleni Halili (Albania)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 23 -29 August 2021 Read Report
Awardee: Mihai Radu Ionescu (Romania)
Host Institution: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Limoge, France / 29 June – 17 July 2020 Read Report
Awardee: Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen (Norway)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 19-25 September 2022
Awardee: Lusine Martirosyan (Armenia)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 14-24 December 2021 Read Report
Awardee: Kateriine Orav (Estonia)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 26 – 30 July 2021 Read Report
Awardee: Marieta Valerieva Peycheva (Bulgaria)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 1 – 10 September 2020 Read Report
Awardee: Aurora Semerano (Italy)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 28 June – 9 July 2021 Read Report
Awardee: Dmitar Vlahović (Serbia)
Host Institution: Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway / 17-28 October 2022 Read Report
2019 Awardees
ESO is pleased to announce the 2019 Department to Department Visit Programme Awardees. We wish a fruitful, cooperative visit to all involved.
Awardee: Angelo Cascio Rizzo (Italy)
Host Institution: Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany / 9 – 15 September 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Silvia Chirobocea (Romania)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 5 – 14 August 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Mercedes de Lera Alfonso (Spain)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 1 – 8 September 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Sofiya Khachaturyan (Armenia)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 2 – 6 December 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Inna Lutsenko (Kyrgyzstan)
Host Institution: San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Department of Neuroscience, Rome, Italy / 27 May – 4 June 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Masiliūnas Rytis (Lithuana)
Host Institution: Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden / 25 March – 5 April 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Sabina Medukhanova (Kazakhstan)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 11 – 15 November 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Răzvan Alexandru Radu (Romania)
Host Institution: University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain / 10 – 23 June 2019 Read Report
Awardee: Valentina Rinnoci (Italy)
Host Institution: Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway / 27 January – 4 February 2020 Read Report
Awardee: Floris H.B.M. Schreuder (The Netherlands)
Host Institution: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom / 5 – 12 September 2019 Read Report
2018 Awardees
ESO is pleased to announce the 2018 awardees:
Natalia Andrzejewska (Poland)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland Read Report
Mariana Morais Carvalho Dias (Portugal)
Host Institution: Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain Read Report
Csilla Forro (Romania)
Host Institution: National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Budapest, Hungary Read Report
Julie Haesebaert (France)
Host Institution: Kings’s College, School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences, London, United Kingdom Read Report
Manea Maria Mirabela (Romania)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland Read Report
Giuseppe Reale (Italy)
Host Institution: Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Read Report
Pasquale Scoppettuolo (Belgium)
Host Institution: Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille, France Read Report
Susanna Zuurbier (The Netherlands)
Host Institution: Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland Read Report
2017 Awardees
ESO is pleased to announce the 2017 awardees:
Rahim Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
Host Institution: Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Read Report
Kateryna Antonenko (Ukraine)
Host Institution: University Hospital of Perugia, Stroke Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Perugia, Italy Read Report
Anne-Katrin Giese (German/Harvard)
Host Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Univeristy, Munich, Germany Read Report
Dearbhla Kelly (Dublin/Ireland)
Host Institution: University Hospital Lariboisiere, Paris, France Read Report
Patrick Nicholson (Dublin/Ireland)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland Read Report
Alessio Pieroni (Rome/Italy)
Host Institution: Queen Elizabeth University, Stroke Unit, Hospital in Glasgow, United Kingdom