european brain council

The European Brain Council and beLean.net are happy to announce the digital launch of the Brain Innovation Days, to be held on 13 October 2020 at 12:30-14:30.

The EBC releases its 2019 Annual Report

On September 25th , EBC held its latest event in the European Parliament, this time building on the Value of Treatment‘s work on Alzheimer’s and The Socioeconomic impact of Alzheimer’s in Europe. This event was an opportunity to further present… Continue Reading

Last week marked the launch of the EBC statement “Counting down to zero: Towards a future with underfunded health research?”, which calls on the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union to increase the budget of the 9th Framework Programme of Research & Innovation, or “Horizon Europe”, to at least €120 billion.

  2017 was a remarkable year for EBC, thanks to the development of an increasing number of activities and new initiatives. In particular, the publication of EBC’s policy white paper on the “Value of Treatment for Brain Disorders in Europe”… Continue Reading

Outcome of the elections of the new Executive During the November 22nd, Board meeting the elections for the EBC new Executive took place. The new Executive is composed as follows: • President Prof. Monica di Luca (FENS)
• 1st Vice… Continue Reading

Ann Little (AL): Alistair, congratulations on winning an EFNA Neurology Advocacy Award in the Patient Advocate category. Can you tell us when, how and why you became involved in patient advocacy?  Alistair Newton (AN): Thank you.  It is an honour to have been chosen for this award, especially as I was part of the 'core' team of the EFNA Board during its formation and through its first decade.  In turn, I congratulate the current EFNA leadership on its successes and excellent development since then.

2 years ago I have already highlighted the work of the European Affairs sub-Committee of the European Academy of Neurology. This is to more closely introduce the partners of EAN at this in Brussels. It is important that our members know about activities of our Society on a European level.

On Wednesday January 18th, the working groups of the Value of Treatment (VOT) project met to update on the work done and share the outcomes achieved.

On March 18th, 2016 the ‘Consensus statement on European Brain Research’ (Morris et al., 2016) has been launched in Brussels at the Brussel office of the European Brain Council. Several organisations related to brain science, including the European Academy of Neurology, participated. The European Brain Council is uniting the European organisations of physicians for Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, the scientists for both molecular and systemic Neurosciences and the European patient organisations for neurological and psychiatric diseases (see below 1).

At the Board meeting of the European Brain Council that took place in Brussels on February 18th, a new Executive was elected.
Prof. Wolfgang Oertel, coordinator of the EAsC – European Affairs sub-Committee of the EAN was elected Treasurer to… Continue Reading