SPB Membership
Membership in the Portuguese Society of Biochemistry can take two forms:
- SPB Membership for individuals, which is meant for every Portuguese or foreign citizen interested in biochemistry;
- SPB Membership for societies or interest groups, which allows for societies or groups focused on a specific area of biochemistry to become an SPB Affiliated Society. See in the SPB section of this site for examples of SPB affiliated societies.
Membership Benefits
Membership of the Portuguese Society of Biochemistry allows you to benefit from the following:
- Reduced price in the registration to meetings sponsored by the SPB;
- Subsidies to participate in the annual meeting of FEBS;
- Grants to participate in international meetings as well as in the National Congress of Biochemistry;
- Access to information regarding meetings and courses;
- Possibility to apply to FEBS grants (only members with one year registration and their membership dues in order have the right to apply); and
- SPB Sponsorship to organize workshops and scientific meetings.
Membership Fee Payment
There have been doubts about how to pay and how much to pay for SPB's membership fee. So here is all you have to know:
- How much to pay: if you are an undergraduate (não licenciado), graduate (licenciado), MSc (mestrando) student your annual membership fee is 15 €. If you are a PhD (doutorando) student your annual membership fee is 25 €. If you are a researcher with a PhD degree you are no longer considered a student and therefore your annual membership fee is 35,00 €;
- How to pay: SPB accepts payments in several ways, such as: 1) payment by check payable to Sociedade Portuguesa de Bioquímica; or 2) cash; or 3) money order (vale de correio); or 4) money transfer to SPB's bank account with the following NIB: 0036 0033 99100496216 30;
- Make sure you pay your membership fee in time (deadline: March 31st every year) in order to benefit from grants and sponsorships awarded by SPB and FEBS every year as well as the right for discounts in SPB's Congresso Nacional de Bioquímica. Members with unpaid membership fees will no longer be considered for grants, sponsorships or discounts.
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