Bulgaria will establish six high-tech stroke treatment centres in the country’s largest cities to reduce its record-high stroke mortality, with the project to be financed through EU funds under the Recovery Plan, the Sofia health ministry told Euractiv. One of the EU’s poorest member states, Bulgaria, struggled for years to absorb money from the [...]
The 6th Interdisciplinary Conference “Brain & Mind” will be held 18–20 December 2025 at the Book Castle Hall of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. This hybrid-format conference (on-site and online) brings together neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, biologists, neuroimaging experts, philosophers and other researchers to explore the intricate relationship between brain and mind. [...]
The Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), The Brain Capital Alliance, and The Brain Economy Hub, in collaboration with the Spanish Brain Council, WeMind Cluster, and NeuroCentury, hosted the webinar “Spanish Brain Plan – Paving the Way for the Brain Economy” on 30 October 2025, 15:00–16:45 CET. Held under the auspices of the World Economic Forum’s [...]
On October 20, 2025 at a round table organized by the Brain Health Council Foundation in partnership with the Bulgarian Medical Association and the Sofia Medical Association, the draft National Plan for Brain Diseases in the Republic of Bulgaria (2026–2030) was presented and discussed. The document outlines a long-term program for building a comprehensive, [...]
On Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 4:30 PM in Madrid, the Spanish Brain Council and the Ramón Areces Foundation will host a scientific conference on the growing international trend of involving patients and the public in health research. This approach shifts from a traditional model focused solely on researchers to one in which affected individuals [...]
On Thursday, November 6, 2025, the Norwegian Brain Council will host its annual Brain Health Conference, with this year’s theme focusing on brain disease. One in three people in Norway will be affected by a brain disease during their lifetime—impacting not only their own lives but also those of their families. Brain diseases represent [...]
On October 20, 2025, the third annual Concussion Awareness Day will take place—a day dedicated to education, prevention, treatment, and science surrounding traumatic brain injury (TBI). To mark the occasion, the German Brain Council invite you to a thematic conference on October 24–25, 2025, held in Munich in a hybrid format. The focus will [...]
In August, the Norwegian Brain Council (NBC) will launch a digital science center on brain health. Visitors will be able to explore the universe of the brain in an interactive and exciting way. The science center is aimed at the general public to create engagement and curiosity about the brain and to spread knowledge [...]
On June 25 and 26, the Hellenic Brain Council participated in a two-day meeting with Members of the European Parliament from Greece and other EU countries at the European Parliament in Brussels, under the auspices of the European Brain Council (EBC). The aim of the meeting was to coordinate and strengthen actions for brain [...]
How do we take care of our most important resource – brain capital? In Almedalen, the Swedish Brain Foundation gathered experts and business leaders for a conversation about how well-being, the work environment and cognitive diversity are linked to innovation and sustainability. Watch the seminar from Almedalen 2025 on the role of the brain [...]
