From September 4th – 25th, 2011, the first ECE course in neuroscience will be held at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The ECE is promoting a European network of summer schools that bring eminent scientists and 30 highly talented and gifted European (plus Israel, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey) students together. Central theme of the summer course in Bochum is: "The Fate of the Memory Trace: Learning, remembering and forgetting from molecules to behavior." Over a period of 3 weeks the students attend lectures in the morning and practical lab excercises in the afternoon.The topics of the first week are "Acquisition and Consolidation". In week 2 the students deepen their knowledge on "Retrieval and the Memory System". Week 3 is dedicated to "Extinction and Forgetting". At weekends our guests get to know more about the Ruhr area and, of course, each other. The Campus in Bochum is possible due to the generous funding of Stiftung Mercator. The selected students receive stipends covering travel, housing and full board. Onur Güntürkün is in charge of organizing the summer school.